Just Another Reason Showing Why Pat Buchanan Is A Racist Dumbass

If you don't feel like watching all of this, Bat Buchanan basically says this:

• We should give everyone a chance.
  
• But White males are really the best for the job.
  
• White Males need a leg up.
  
• White people founded this country and were the only ones who died in WWII therefore this nation should be run by White People.

From the Klan to Pat Buchanan to all of us.

Now my day is complete.

An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich

Dear White Privilege:

You could have left well enough alone and just said "I had a little too much to drink when I called Sotomayor a racist" but instead, like some of the other great white politicians before you, decided to elaborate on your already privileged views (making yourself look more like the relic you really are) during Face the Nation saying:

"If you say people of this ethnic background are superior to people of this ethnic background, take out her language and put in the word 'white,' put in 'white male' where she had 'Latina,' that person would be disqualified from the court. Also would be disqualified as a juror."

Listen - I get it that you want to try and "reframe" the conversation so it puts the onus back on Sotomayor to try and defend herself - because that's what people like you do - but do you seriously think any of us don't see what you're doing? That you're trying to take her words out of context? That we're really supposed to believe that if you just swap out the words "Latina" and "female" for "White" and "male" that it's the same thing?

I mean do you think we'll actually drink that pale kool-aid with no flavor?

Sorry to burst your little D.C. bubble but the fact remains that no matter how hard you try - as a white male - you're life experience is going to be vastly different and if you actually look in the mirror and not just history, but your own personal life and what you've gotten from it simply because you're white - you'd actually have a clue and not use phrases like "New racism is no better than old racism" because I didn't know any of this "new racism" by POC involved things like redlining, not being able to testify in courts against whites, a little old thing called slavery, and just letting white people kill POC without anything happening to them simply because they could.

Like some of that "old racism".

Now I'm not saying that she's the end all be all, nor that if you're white you can't help with the cause or understand what POC are up against, but when there's something that needs to go to the highest court in our nation dealing with matters of race, racism, or gender, you can bet your ass I at least want a few people on there helping to decide the outcome who've had that life experience of being on the other side.

Who haven't always had the power.

Slanty

1 of 3? Judge Sonia Sotomayor

I don't know enough about Sonia Sotomayor (Obama's nom to the highest court) as I probably should (or will eventually) - but from what I've found out initially - sounds good so far.

She's extremely qualified - more so than anyone else was at this point from what I understand - a woman of color, and according to news outlets, the first Latino American to ever be selected for the post and while the latter isn't everything - 107 out of 111 of the justices so far have been white men - so on that front it - I'm all for it.

Will she uphold Roe v. Wade? From tidbits here and there, even though she hasn't ruled on anything in the past that gives a clear answer - people seem to at least think she will - which I think is important (because I'm all about choice no matter what way you go) - but is she a centrist on that topic?

I guess we really don't know.

But you know what I can tell you?

It's that I liked reading these quotes from her in 2001 (the last from a forward to an '07 book "The International Judge"):

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.

...I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society.

...all judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial

Striving to be impartial and hold the Constitution and the law in the highest regard, but acknowledging that being a person of color and a woman, just like being white and male, still can affect the lens through which a judge may make a ruling?

I get that.