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Sotomayor and The Selling of America
Sotomayor and The Selling of America
In TIME magazine’s June 8 issue, the cover showed Sonia Sotomayor, titled with the
words LATINA JUSTICE. These are hypnotic trigger words, designed to instill in
anyone who reads it the subconscious idea that this justice is more powerful,
demanding and certain than the impartial but fair justice our forefathers founded
for us.
Her picture on the cover, as explained inside, “On the cover, illustration for
TIME by Tim O’Brien,” is not even a photograph of her, just a drawing that creates
the illusion of female perfection, softening the heavy, hard and aging look she is
so well recognized for.
Richard Lacayo, in writing this article, fell all over himself trying to make
Sotomayor look almost like a “knight in shining armor” who has just arrived to
save this country from disaster. In his subtitle to the article, he writes: “What
her extraordinary life says about the kind of Justice she would be.” And he goes
on to write one of the most insipid and insidious propaganda pieces in TIME’s most
recent history.
What is so great about her life? Born in 1954 in a “poor Bronx neighborhood,” to
immigrant parents from Puerto Rico. The word immigrant is my addition, not the
author’s. Did they enter the country legally during WWII? Why has no one asked
this? Is it important? I don’t know.
This pathetic article makes her seem like some sort of goddess who has defied all
the odds, including the self-perceived barriers of men and the system, to get
where she is. I am sure nothing could be further from the truth. She worked and
studied hard and with the help of family, friends and perhaps a few mentors, rose
in her field of endeavor.
However, there are many out there that don’t like her. John, my contact in McLean,
VA has this to say: “Well, you asked me what I think about Sonia Sotomayor being a
nominee for the “supreme court” so here it goes. I don’t care for her racist
remarks about “white men.” Sounds like she is your typical reverse racist and
militant La Raza member. Remember Jean, I’m part Italian which means I’m also part
“latin” what ever that means and I really don’t care for hardcore La Raza people.
America is supposed to be the great melting pot of humanity and I feel her views
belong in the trash heap and that she is a divider, not a joiner. She reminds me
of a woman version of Clarence Thomas.”
Many consider her a racist for being a member of the radical group La Raza, or The
Race. Their stated goal is to “reclaim” the entire southwestern United States,
including Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts
of Washington State. This territory makes up and area known as Aztlan, a
“legendary homeland of the Aztecas.” In other words, pure fiction.
Now let us examine the very controversial remark that John mentioned:
Wise: having wisdom; Sage; 2. having or showing good sense or good judgment.
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
Why not a Hispanic man? Or a black man? Or an Asian man? Why white only? And why
not another woman? Her experience is beside the point. Any judge will bring to the
bench their very own experiences and knowledge, whatever their race. And she is a
racist.