August 14, 2009 – 4:30 am
I was reading some comments on one of the conservative blogs the other day. They were complaining about Sotomayor saying that her becoming a Supreme Court justice was just pandering to Hispanics. If you want to see it with the most negative spin I guess you can say that. I prefer to be more optimistic and see it as the senators feeling it was about time a Hispanic was given the opportunity. One blogger really caught my attention though. He went on a rant that we didn’t deserve consideration because when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was being trashed for his partisan firing of U.S. Attorneys we just shut our mouths and didn’t do anything to help him. Believe me it wasn’t said that nicely but that’s the gist of it. Read More »
August 14, 2009 – 3:50 am
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I’ve been watching a commercial for Oreo cookies by Nabisco. It shows a father and son eating oreo cookies together. As the camera pulls back you see that they are doing so long distance via two laptop computers. I really like this commercial. I don’t know what ethnicity they are but they are not Anglo. For that alone I am willing to give Nabisco two thumbs up on their commercial. You don’t see too many out there that are willing to feature anyone other than a black or an Anglo.
But in my opinion it gets better than that. They show the father and son in a loving, caring relationship. What a huge difference from the way minorities are usually portrayed. The country has been shown countless times that minority fathers abandon their children and that the women are left to try to raise families on their own. Thank you Nabisco for showing the same dynamics in our families that are in so many others.
I am a proud Texan but that doesn’t mean I’m always proud of what happens in Texas. We are still in a fight for our lives against the Republicans here who seem to have a manifest destiny mentality that requires absolute assimilation by minorities. My anger is currently directed at our Texas Board of Education. Now we already played the game of trying to discredit evolution in favor of intelligent design.
After that fiasco could they just get down to work? No, of course not. Some of the board members have said that there is an “over representation of minorities” when discussing our current social study texts books. No doubt to fix that they hired six supposed “experts” whose job it is to decide what should be in the social study and history books of our children. Is it a surprise to anyone that the people they hired have the same mentality as those board members? Read More »
Not that it was a surprise but it is gratifying to have Sonia Sotomayor pass her confirmation hearing. Still everyone needs to bear in mind that only nine Republicans voted for her. Four of those Republicans will not be running for re-election. In other words when they didn’t have to worry about losing their nomination then they were willing to admit she was qualified enough. Five actually took a huge risk. Thirty one Republicans scrounged for any angle, misrepresented information and flat out lied to try to justify to rational America why they voted no. Read More »
Personally I thought I had seen the lowest level the Republican party could sink to but the current disruptions of town hall meetings is about as un-American as it comes. I love this coming from the party that insists they are the real Americans and that the rest of us are socialists, communists or whatever other “ist” they can think of.
So where is all this anger coming from? Is it a true out-pouring of the public’s dissatisfaction with a new health care system? Not hardly. I’m sure this will be shocking to you but this is actually being staged by lobbyists from the health care industry. There are several conservative lobbying sites that list when and where town hall meetings are going to be held and then go on to give instructions on how to disrupt them. On how to “shout them down”. These Republicans who are following the dogma are acting true to form by being the puppets of big business. Read More »
Wow, talk about same song, second verse and third and fourth, ad infinitum. I am now convinced that the Republicans should be wholeheartedly thanking Sonia Sotomayor for making the wise Latina comment since it is obviously the only possible thing there is to speak about. She has been asked about that comment in so many different ways that I doubt there is another way left to rephrase it. Of course, it doesn’t say much for their capabilities of understanding but then again who ever accused the Republicans of being able to understand anything, particularly in regards to minorities. But enough of the facetiousness. Read More »
We’ve gotten through the second day now and I have to admit that the Republican strategy eludes me. They’ve railed against Obama, they’ve railed against the Democrats for not seating Estrada and they’ve railed against Sonia Sotomayor for various piddly reasons. Quite honestly I think it shows how little they really have that can be used against her.
Naturally, there was the wise Latina thing but when Judge Sotomayor admitted to it not being the best way she could have phrased it, in fact actually called it a poor choice of words, they kept on hammering away because there really wasn’t much else. Talking about the law and her 17 years worth of rulings would not have been beneficial to them because her decisions have consistently gone along with the rule of law. Something that cannot be said about the “conservative” members of the current supreme court. Read More »
Well, we’ve gotten through day one of the confirmation hearing on Judge Sonia Sotomayor. This was the light-weight day. The only thing that was scheduled to happen today is for each senator to give a brief statement. Depending on what party the senator was affiliated with it was either praise, praise or praise, trash.
What I really find amusing is Senator Jeff Sessions being concerned that Judge Sotomayor is a racist. Now a little history on Jeff Sessions may help you appreciate the irony. Senator Sessions was once up for the position of a supreme court justice. It’s unbelievable how far he got considering the total lack of qualifications he had for the position but hey, that’s politics. Senator Sessions did not get the position due to his appalling racist comments and beliefs. Comments that included saying the KKK was not so bad until he found out that some of them smoked marijuana. Read More »
I read the blogs that several of the news agencies have to see what people are thinking. Granted that’s not a scientific approach but they have one particular aspect that really grabs my attention. They are anonymous. People will say what they really feel as long as they think no one can tell who they are. Racism and bigotry is running rampant on the blogs. And let me tell you it’s been getting uglier and uglier over the past few years.
The majority of the angst is coming from Anglos. They are up in arms about discrimination against whites. When they say whites they mean Anglos. They do not consider white Hispanics as white and don’t see the discrimination in that attitude. I have to admit that part of me feels ‘uh-huh, the shoe is pretty tight when it’s on the other foot isn’t it’? But that’s not an attitude that will get us anywhere and in all honesty it was my initial gut reaction not my logical, reasoning reaction. Read More »
I have to admit I was kind of at a loss as to why Republicans were so concerned about Sonia Sotomayor being selected for the Supreme Court. They have even gone so far as to hire the same company that thought up the famous Swift Boat attack against Kerry hoping that company will find a way to derail her confirmation process. Now, for a political party that appears to be in its death throes, you would think that they would be trying to find a way to bring Hispanics into the fold. So why are they trying so hard to keep this Hispanic off the Supreme Court and risk alienating the Hispanic population? Read More »
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