Fail.
“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…”
So are the words of Obama’s first (and hopefully LAST) pick for the Supreme court Sonia Sotomayor. Arrogance picks arrogance. Is anyone surprised? How is it that Liberal judges think that accurate jurisprudence is dependent upon someone’s ethnicity, personal experience and feelings on a subject? Could it be that they don’t actually give a rat’s kazoo about the constitution and it’s directive to the court to decide the constitutionality of law and the judgment of cases based on current US law and precedent?
I’ll be anxious to find out how our mainstream media views such an ethnically charged and ignorant statement. By default, it implies that we “poor, stupid, ignorant and inexperienced white folk” don’t have the same “richness of experience” as your standard, “wise (and apparently culturally superior) latina”.
Well, Judge Sotomayor, have you ever lived outside of New York? Ever lived in a foreign country for years at a time, or walked the shell-cratered beaches of Normandy? Have you ever seen the magnificent castles of Europe or studied the walled fortresses of Roman-era Britain first hand? Looked down from the windows of the Marksburg to the banks of the Rhine? Have you ever tasted haggis or listened to the lonely wail of a piper playing Amazing Grace from the towers of Edinburgh castle on a cold spring night? Ever experienced a ferry ride across the pitching north Atlantic to see Vestman Islands? Ever taken stock of the American graves in Europe personally? Ever seen the works of Monet, Manet, Van Gogh and been close enough to touch them? Seen the place where King Henry VIII executed his wives? Seen the bunker where Churchill directed the British War effort during WWII? Visted the Ossuary at Verdun and seen the bones of unidentified WWI soldiers stacked by the room-full? Visited Stonehenge? Seen the Book of Kells? Traveled across the green hills of Ireland? Have you walked the streets of Paris? Dublin? Cologne? Reykjavik? Munich? Bonn? London? Inverness? St. Andrews? Strasbourg? Calais? Seen the ruins of the Abbey at Wrexham? Ever seen the Alps at sunrise out the back of a tent? Ever whitewater rafted down a glacier-fed river in Austria? Ever bothered to visit the battlefields that checker the eastern half of the US that bore witness to our own domestic conflict? Seen the ruins of a Native American palisade wall or a mound complex that contains not only the bones of those who built them but also those of US soldiers? Been aboard a US aircraft carrier?
That’s all just stuff that us poor, stupid honky white folk do. I suppose I still lack the “cultural richness” of your standard “wise latina”.
FAIL.