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OH NO: WHO WILL REPRESENT WHITE MALES ON THE COURT?

Sen. James Inhofe:

In the months ahead, it will be important for those of us in the U.S. Senate to weigh [Sonia Sotomayor's] qualifications and character as well as her ability to rule fairly without undue influence from her own personal race, gender, or political preferences.

Yes. Because the worldviews of John Roberts, Sam Alito, John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, and Antonin Scalia are not impacted at all by their white male identities. White men are raceless and genderless, haven't you heard?

--Dana Goldstein



COMMENTS

Is this white guy married?

Dana Goldstein continues to show that she's got issues. For one other example, see these questionable comments:

prospect.org/csnc/blogs/
tapped_archive?month=07&year=2008&
base_name=why_should_we_fix_american_sch

Sotomayor. Racist. Racist. Racist. Rinse and repeat. Sotomayor. Racist. Racist. Racist.

Watching all the white men (Inhofe, Limbaugh, etc.) lining up to call the minorities racists (Obama, Sotomayor, etc.) would be funny . . . if it weren't kind of sad.

I'm very glad Dana Goldstein continues to show she has issues.

DG and I have the same issues.

But the point isn't to put bad rulings by Scalito J to whiteness or masuculinity; let's ask Sen. Inhofe why he fears "undue influence" on Judge Sotomayor but not on Scalito.

Inhofe's words are stunningly racist.

He's saying white men only need apply.

The sublimest privilege of the privileged is the privilege to protest that they are not privileged.

"questioning whether she can make rulings independent of her race and gender"

Can Inhofe make decisions without being influence by his financial backer in the oil industry?

Republicans: Hypocrisy, Inaction.

Sotomayors race is white - her ethncity is latina - when a white american is elected or nominated the issue of gender, race ethncity is never questioned. Judge her by merit. Who do you think your fooling by all that rhetoric!!

Are we seriously going to kid ourselves and say that sex has never entered into a confirmation hearing? Then what happened with Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill? *Ponders!* I'm a mostly liberal somewhat moderate very open minded American. However, even I can see this for what this is. Its complete and utter racism. If Sotomayer had been white and said what she said about any other minority she probably wouldn't still be on any bench. We are supposed to forgive her simply because she is Latina? I guess we should just forgive all those white guys that owned slaves 200 some years after they owned them too. I guess if blacks can hold a grudge that long its ok for whites to hold one from 2001.

I'm from Oklahoma and I can't stand Inhofe, but I understand both points of view. A white judge could never say this and survive. I'm not saying she should not have thought it, but she shouldn't have said it. I read a comment from another blog that read:
Dammit people! Get with the program.
There's only one racist group in America:
White, heterosexual, Conservative males.
It is simply impossible for a "latina" female (wise or not) to be a racist.
He was obviously being sarcastic considering the site, but it was proposed to me today that some academics believe this to be true. Only white males are truly in power and only they can be racist. This theory seems outdated to me.

open racism on white males,the jewish owned media would never admit to that.why should the media slam a racist like sotomayor?oh,thats right,it wouldnt be the p.c. thing to do in this liberal owned nation of minorities!!kill the white man.thats the new american minority used frase.hate crime laws do not apply to minorities,just white males!!

Lisa,
Sotomayor is not white. She is Puerto Rican. Puerto Ricans are largely the descendants of Europeans, TaĆ­no, Africans or a blend of these groups which has produced a very diversified population.

I would go one better Liberal.
ANY executive found to have actively pursued this fraud on the American people will be prosecuted.

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