Posted on 05/29/2009 9:42:17 PM PDT by STE=Q
Like so many special interest groups, La Raza (‘the race’ in English ) purports to speak for “Latinos” wherever they may be… and nowadays, they’re just about everywhere.
And why NOT everywhere?
Latinos (short version: a person of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent) have been part and parcel of American Culture from our earliest times.
So it should be no surprise that a person of Latin-American or Spanish speaking descent -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Puerto Rico) -- should have been nominated by President Obama to sit on the Supreme court of the united States.
But one could ask why, specifically, was Sonia Sotomayor nominated and not some other qualified person of Latin-American or Spanish speaking descent?
Let’s investigate:
From Senator Barack Obama’s pre-election Speech to the National Council of La Raza in San Diego, CA. July 13, 2008:
“And I’m not taking a single Latino vote for granted in this campaign. We’re meeting with Latino leaders across the country. We’re reaching out to Latino organizations to get input on my policy proposals. We’ve got a nationwide Hispanic media strategy. We’re recruiting and training Latino organizers. We’re holding Latino voter registration drives across America. AND WHEN I’M PRESIDENT I’LL BE ASKING MANY OF YOU TO SERVE AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT.”
Sonia Sotomayor is a member of La Raza
So it would appear reasonable that President Obama is now fulfilling the campaign promise he made as Senator Obama, that he would ask La Rasa members, when he became President, “to serve at every level of government.”
Sonia Sotomayor is a member of La Raza and Obama has now “asked” Sotomayor to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Now some people are of the opinion that “special interest” advocacy organizations, such as La Raza, are Racist because they support a particular Racial or Ethnic group.
Is La Raza -- Racist -- simply because it advocates for Latinos?
Is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- Racist -- because it Advocates for “Colored” People?
Is the Jewish Defense League (JDL) -- Racist -- because it advocates for Jewish people?
Is The Nation of Islam -- Racist -- because it purports to “deliver” black people of African decent?
Are “White Pride” groups -- Racist -- because they wish to preserve what they perceive as their white European heritage?
Are groups that promote Asian Americans -- Racist?
What about “native” American groups that want to preserve their heritage -- are they racist?
Where does self interest leave off and racism began?
Is EVERY group that aims to promote itself -- based on their perceived common racial identities -- racist?
Looking at the above groups (the list hardly scratches the surface as there are literally hundreds of these sorts of groups) which ones do you think are “racist” and which ones are not?
And last but not least:
Which group, or groups (if any) may be keen on imposing their cultural world-view on the other groups?
Let’s investigate some more:
From a lecture delivered by judge Sonia Sotomayor published in the Spring 2002 issue of Berkeley La Raza Law Journal entitled "Raising the Bar: Latino and Latina Presence in the Judiciary and the Struggle for Representation".
You may read the whole lecture here (copy and paste):
http://salaswildthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/sonia-sotomayor-berkeley-speech-2001.html
Here’s a -- now infamous -- sample from that lecture:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Hope?
Why would she “hope” to reach a “better conclusion” than a white male?
Is she concerned with being a fine Jurist or competing with white males?
At face, her statement also appears to have both Racist and Sexist overtones.
Let’s do a little experiment by turning things around:
“I would hope that a wise White male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life.”
Now if you analyze her statement you will see it is based on a false prejudice embodied in the phrase: “who hasn’t lived THAT life”
Meaning she’s gone through experiences as a woman and as a Latina that a white male -- Presumably -- has not.
She posits, without a shred of evidence, that her life experiences would enable her to come to a “better” conclusion than a white male.
But we are NOT out of the woods yet!
She uses the word WISE before Latina.
She is saying that HER life experiences have made her more WISE than a white male!
Let’s try another experiment:
“I would hope that a wise midget woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Go ahead, have fun, put your favorite “minority” in the sentence and see how relevant it would be to reaching a just decision in a court of law.
In conclusion, let me say that her statement, as outlined above, can ONLY be accepted within the context of a false assumption grounded in a prejudice… That HER experiences as a minority have given her superior judicial insight… insight that “white males” -- because of their whiteness and maleness -- can never acquire.
So precisely how can Sonia Sotomayor deny the racial and sexist -- and some might argue stupid -- assumptions that underpin her extravagant generalizations?
As a famous white male -- Ricky Ricardo -- would say… “she got some ‘Splainin’ to do!”
STE=Q
What's the verdict?
... Or is the jury still out?
STE=Q
I wish I could go to the tea party in i live in l.a and do not have a car :9 have fun I will be there in spirit :-) in fresno I hope she doesn’t become a member of the SCOTUS.
Just another brick in the wall.
Here is some more proof that what Rush stated about Sotomayor being a racist is true.
La Raza is one of the most virulently racist organizations there is. It is the KKK for Hispanics.
Good piece.
Throw it on the pile. Its gonna be a big one.
She is very unfit to serve. Now is the time for all Republican groups to attack.
President Obama's radical new nominee to replace Associate Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, used to serve on the board of LatinoJustice PRLDEF (White House backgrounder), one of the racial grievance groups thathelped to sink the judicial nomination of Honduran-born Miguel Estrada in 2003.
Along with groups such as the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), LatinoJustice fought a war of attrition againstPresident George W. Bush's2001 nomination of conservative Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born immigrant, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Democrats in the Senate filibustered the nomination and a weary Estrada withdrew from consideration in 2003.
Today LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit,hailed the nomination of Sotomayor on the basis of her ethno-cultural heritage. "As the second largest and fastest growing population in America, with a large pool of qualified individuals to choose from, it was wholly appropriate for the president to nominate a Hispanic," thegroup said in a written statement. (PDF)
According to the group's website, it gets some of its funding from George Soros's Open Society Institute.
Judge them by their fruits. It's time to dust off the archives and talk about what La Raza is all about. Sotomayor's nomination demands it.
Very cute array!
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Carmen La Raza
With a ‘fruitful head’ too!
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I think there is a good chance she is fruity.....
The libs seem to be ‘fruitful’ but they abort instead of multiply, and multiply their voters by using the dead and multiple voting.
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Kill American babies
Import illegal alien babies
A faster and more dominating radical left
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Correct
Brits, French, Germans, Italians -
Only 1.1-1.5 kids per couple
And not all are married
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US Comparative birthrates
75 - Liberals
125 - Conservative
When you read through the ‘births’ column down here over half are not married. It’s astounding. Even sadder is the fact that people grow to accept things that were once considered taboo.
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The liberals agenda is the way it is going
But economically - it is now stinging many of them the most
Imagine trying enforce a VAT tax here in small stores and service businesses
Obama is greating an underground economy that he cannot police
Turbo-Tax Tim and Rahmbo have written the script
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