3. Sotomayor Is a Racist Who Favors ‘Wise Latinas’ Over White Men
Within moments of Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, it was all over the airwaves: Obama’s pick had claimed that Latina women
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Within moments of Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, it was all over the airwaves: Obama’s pick had claimed that Latina women made better judges than white men. Sotomayor had said, “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.” What the pundits and politicians left out, again and again and again, was that Sotomayor had made the commentspecifically in reference to the importance of judicial diversity in cases regarding “race and sex discrimination cases.” Never mind that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito had also made statements about the impact of their personal experiences on their judicial thinking — first Newt Ginrgichand then a slew of other conservatives took the “wise Latina” remark out of context to assert that Sotomayor, the first woman of color to be nominated to the high court, was a “racist.”
Rhyley Carney
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