Good Luck "Justice" Sotomayor!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have just received an email from my father in law with the following "joke":



Where it all began

A little girl wrote to Sarah Palin and asked;
'How did the human race start?'

Sarah Palin answered, 'God made Adam and Eve;
They had children; and so was all mankind made.'

Two days later the girl wrote to Michelle Obama
and asked the same question. Michelle Obama answered,
'Many years ago there were monkeys from which
the human race evolved.'

The confused girl went to her father and said,
'Dad, how is it possible that Sarah Palin told me
the Human race was created by God,
And Michelle Obama said they evolved from monkeys.'

The father answered, 'Well, Dear, it is very simple,
Sarah Palin told you about her ancestors
and Michelle Obama told you about hers.'

Of course my response was to tell him that this is obviously a racist joke.

And what was his response: "C’mon! Have a sense of humor. It really deals with a deeper issue than you are considering and that is whether you believe in Creationism or Darwin’s theory of Evolution. Liberals tend towards Evolution and therefore, Michelle’s answer would reflect that belief. What’s racist about that?"

I believe the deeper meaning is the divide of generations. He comes from a place that says that political correctness means you can not say anything racist or bigoted.

My belief in what political correctness is difference in language not thought.

A racist is a racist.

A prime example of this is going on right now with the fight over Sonia Sotomayor.

Rush Limbaugh calls Sotomayor a reverse racist, Andrew Wilkow mispronounces her name "Sada-myer", and the right wants to say that she is a Latina equivalent of the KKK. What is the problem with this?

Is this political correctness going too far?

I say that this is just ignorance parading as debate. Rush likes to stir up his base and Wilkow, well most people don't know who he is. But what does this tell us about the way that they think.

Maybe I'm just a homer for Sotomayor, maybe I just like her and think that she is qualified because it's Obama's pick. But, I have to throw some logic into this, lets look at her background:


1. She was accepted with a full scholarship to Princeton.

2. While there she won the Pyne Prize- which reflects not only grades but extracurricular activities and is awarded to the top performing undergrad.

3. She was Phi Beta Kappa

4. She got a scholarship to Yale Law.

5. She then became editor of Yale Law Review.

6. She became an Assistant DA in New York right out of law school.

7. She served as the youngest trial judge in New York's southern district, being nominated by GHW Bush.

8. Nominated to the court of appeals by Bill Clinton. (At the time Limbaugh only called her ultraliberal)

9. If confirmed she would have more experience than any other sitting Justice.

I have read the speech that Limbaugh says is racist and I have to say that if you come from a certain generation you may find it intimidating. The intimidation comes from the realization that White Men are not the only articulate, mindful, and intellegent people in the world.

I know that much of what the right is saying comes from what they percieve is just outrage. But for me it comes across as pattenly political.

Fox News and others have suggested that the pick is a political move on Obama's part to secure the Latino and Female vote.

They maybe right, but only if you look at this from the point of view of the "old" politics.

For me and people younger this is a pick of someone who is well qualified, has a excellent background, and happens to have a different skin color than the President and the majority of the people who seem to be against her.

Step back, reflect on the facts, and remember that justice is blind.

Sotomayor is not a reverse racist, whatever that really means, she is a superbly qualified nominee.

As for that ruling in New Haven with the fire fighters, don't take Glen Beck's opinon as your own, read the ruling and you will see that she, along with the other judges, defered to the Supreme Court. The reason for the deferment is they knew that the Supreme Court is the only place that this case could be resolved. So much for the appeals court making law argument.

But now I'm getting bitter again.

Good Luck Ms. Sotomayor, and don't forget where you came from, it's rather impressive.

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