WaPo: "Sotomayor Speeches Woven With Ethnicity"; "The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever"; "sister power"

Sonia Sotomayor is so deeply enmeshed in far-left concepts like ethnic nationalism that even the Washington Post isn't trying to hide it. Alec MacGillis, Amy Goldstein, and Robert Barnes offer "Sotomayor Speeches Woven With Ethnicity" (link). In the quotes they provide, among other things: she accuses some of those who reviewed her appeals court nomination a decade ago of stereotyping her; she invokes "sister power"; and she expresses her difficulties with assimilation. The authors refer to her "powerful ethnic pride", her "ethnic consciousness", and her "calls to ethnic solidarity".

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor once told a group of minority lawyers that she believed a delay in her confirmation as a federal appeals judge a decade ago was driven partly by Republican lawmakers' ethnic stereotypes of her, suggesting that the tensions surrounding her current nomination are hardly new to the New York jurist... "I was dealt with on the basis of stereotypes . . . and it was painful . . . and not based on my record," she told the lawyers in New York in 1998. "I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal."

She's probably mistaken about what happened before, but it's statistically probable that a Hispanic woman would be at least a Democrat. She's also admitted that she's a liberal [1].

And, this time around I have seen no one stereotyping her due to her ethnicity per se (or stereotyping her as a Mexican by mistake). People have, however, commented on how she's manifested that ethnicity. That difference is apparently too subtle for some to understand, but it's key to how she could be defeated.

Then, after saying that she's "driven by a powerful ethnic pride and a belief that she has an obligation to lift up fellow people of color", the authors say this:

"The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever," she told Hispanic law students at Hofstra University in 1996.

Then, after admitting that her use of "wise Latina"/"wise woman" comments was "hardly isolated":

In a 1999 speech to the Women's Bar Association of New York State, Sotomayor invoked "sister power," called for the selection of a third woman Supreme Court justice -- which she would now be -- and used phrasing similar to that in the Berkeley speech. "I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion," she said.

More:

More generally, Sotomayor's speeches display an abiding ethnic pride and exhortations of Latino self-help, usually coupled with statistics showing the extent to which Hispanics trail non-Hispanics in education and income.

Her ethnic consciousness was strengthened in her undergraduate years at Princeton, she said in a 1996 speech there. After being taught by her family in New York City to "love America," she arrived at Princeton and felt so out of place that she was initially scared by the sound of crickets. And she discovered "that in this society . . . people of color are different from the larger society, that we must work harder to overcome the problems our communities face, and that we must work together as people of color to achieve changes."

Her calls to ethnic solidarity were often coupled with critiques of America's "deeply confused" tendency to boast of its diversity while seeking to assimilate minorities.

"We are a nation that takes pride in our ethnic diversity, recognizing its importance in shaping our society and in adding richness to its existence," she told the National Puerto Rican Coalition in 1998. "Yet, we simultaneously insist that we can and must function and live in a race- and color-blind way that ignores those very differences that in other contexts we laud."

But Sotomayor also refers to the need for judicial dispassion. "It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona," she said in 2000...

[1] See, for instance, this 1983 quote:

"Once I started doing felonies, it became less hard. No matter how liberal I am, I’m still outraged by crimes of violence."

Comments

She parrots politically correct cliches and conventional wisdom like an idiot. Add to that her collection of feeble-minded rulings, and you get a pretty clear picture of someone who, other than serving gender and ethnic tokenism, has no business being on the Supreme Court.

My maternal great-grandparents came to this country from Norway in the late 19th century. After settling in the Musselshell Valley of central Montana, they did one thing. No more Norwegian spoken. They were now United States Citizens and should act accordingly. Not much, I agree, but Judge Sotomayor and her fans could learn a lesson from this.

"This is funny", the Little Latina in me wants to Behead white people that is what is being said by this little monkey Sotomayor and she really is blazeing for the job to make her people free and to enslave all others. someday all of you will see that fact when you are inside some Reeducation camp or work Camp if you get what I mean by Work Camp.

eh is right but she has cards in fact all the cards. she will be using all her cards against this systen until all her little friend are ruling over you.