Closing Arguments: Latino Women vs. White Males

Her comments are definitely racist. If a white male would have made this statement the crazed liberal left would have been all over him. The double standards that exist in this country are sickening and only creating more hatred between the races.

Of course her comments are racist? Do you really need to ask? Discrimination has nothing to do with people of color. It has to do with placing a less qualified person in a position because of color, and white is also a color.
Equality is what people like Sotomayor and Obama say, but “quotas” is what they do.
Of course it is racist!

Of course it is a racist comment. As you and everyone else is aware if anyone who is not a member of a protected minority group made the identical statement about themselves they unambiguously would be considered a racist.

I think that Sotomayor’s comments are definitely biggoted. If you substitute “wise white man” for Latino woman in the comments guess what would happen.

Ms. Sotomayor’s comments were indeed racist. I believe that a judge should not inject her personal prejudice into the decisions he or she makes…it should be decided on the law. there is a reason that the statues of justice are blindfolded…justice should be blind.
She strikes me as an angry woman with an agenda. I believe that the firemen would agree with me.

If the statement was reversed and said white man would make a better decision was ok than her statement is ok.
I think rasist. Do you want to go to Highest court to hear your case and not believe your case would be heard impartially? Perception would be you may not recieve a fair hearing. Wrong for highest court.

It is unbelievable to me, the double standards that exist in our world. If a white man had said that, he would have had to withdrawl from the appointment for all the criticism he had to face. Reverse discrimnation in its finest form!

Absolutley!!! Her comment was as racist as rascist gets!

If you listen carefully Judge Sonyamayor state a desire not a fact. She is including the life experience of a group who have generally had to struggle to get where they are, unlike the Republican elite who came from money. She is not stating that Latino women are smarter than Anglo men. This is so typical of the right wing talking heads, who twist statements to justify their underlying anger and prejudice.

Judge Sotomayor’s statement is definitely racist. If a white male nominee had made that comment, he’d never live it down, and it would probably immediately ruin any chance he had of being confirmed. I suppose Sotomayor would like to restate her comment.We have all made statements that we’d like to reword. However, she made this comment in a speech that she should have proofed before she read it. So, she had her chance to restate her idea and chose not to.

White men have made much worst statement and had been President, served on the Supreme Court, CEO’s and etc. It’s nonsense!!!

No I do not think the comment was racist. But I feel we are all American’s and need to stop thinking of ourselves as black, white, latino, African-American and so on, we need to stop jumping on so many comments made as being racist.

Yes, she’s a racist – with an agenda.

I find her comment offensive, but I am a white male so it probably doesn’t matter because we are not qualified to be the targets of racism, just the deliverers of it. The double standard is sickening.

Yes her comments were racist and if those comments had been
Made by a republican appointee all the Democrats would have been calling
For her dismissal as a candidate. The media would be repeating it on all channels
However it will go pretty much un noticed and the media will confirm that it was just a poor choice of words that she used. She will be confirmed. Sad

The judge might be intelligent but not very smart. Had this been a white male the TV networks and news agencies would have lynched that person, but she will get a pass because of the love affair you have with Obamma and his telepromter.

I find her comment offensive, but I am a white male so it probably doesn’t matter because we are not qualified to be the targets of racism, just the deliverers of it. The double standard is sickening.

What part of that statement is incorrect ….. I would “hope” so too. I’m a white guy from New England ….. her experiences should inform her and that information will give her a different perspective, than mine. It is always a matter of perspective, when was the last time you heard President O’Bama referred to as “the first BLACK President” there are too many important decisions to be made to consider his race as
an important factor in those decisions. We were all about HIS race in Oct. Now it’s not on the radar.
Please stop this stupid unhelpful “news cycle”

This comment most certainly is racist. At the very least, it has racist undertones. Since when does one ethnicity “reach better conclusions” compared to another ethnicity based solely on their color or ethnic background? Let’s pretend the statement was switched around a bit & went like this, “I would hope that a wise Italian woman, with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than an African-American male who hasn’t lived that life.” Would President Obama refer to criticism of that racist statement as “nonsense”? I think not. Therefore, why is it acceptable for our President to call the criticism of Ms. Sotomayor’s racist statement “nonsense”. This may seem like a small thing to some, but it will get even worse when she is an influence in the highest court in the United States. A judge’s responsibility is to make decisions based on the U.S. Constitution & not their personal emotions or experiences. We are on our way to severing the racist ties that held us for so long. Why go backward by allowing racist statements to go unnoticed & sweep them under the carpet?

No…her comment is not racist it is just reality. She is just stating a fact. A white person can not know or understand what a person of a hispanic background goes through growing up. It would be the same as a white person, a black person or any other race saying that other races cant understand what it means to grow up as a person of any particular race. Why would this be considered racist? It is amazing how in this date and age there still so many narrow minded people…

This comment most certainly is racist. At the very least, it has racist undertones. Since when does one ethnicity “reach better conclusions” compared to another ethnicity based solely on their color or ethnic background? Let’s pretend the statement was switched around a bit & went like this, “I would hope that a wise Italian woman, with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than an African-American male who hasn’t lived that life.” Would President Obama refer to criticism of that racist statement as “nonsense”? I think not. Therefore, why is it acceptable for our President to call the criticism of Ms. Sotomayor’s racist statement “nonsense”. This may seem like a small thing to some, but it will get even worse when she is an influence in the highest court in the United States. A judge’s responsibility is to make decisions based on the U.S. Constitution & not their personal emotions or experiences. We are on our way to severing the racist ties that held us for so long. Why go backward by allowing racist statements to go unnoticed & sweep them under the carpet?

This comment most certainly is racist. At the very least, it has racist undertones. Since when does one ethnicity “reach better conclusions” compared to another ethnicity based solely on their color or ethnic background? Let’s pretend the statement was switched around a bit & went like this, “I would hope that a wise Italian woman, with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than an African-American male who hasn’t lived that life.” Would President Obama refer to criticism of that racist statement as “nonsense”? I think not. Therefore, why is it acceptable for our President to call the criticism of Ms. Sotomayor’s racist statement “nonsense”. This may seem like a small thing to some, but it will get even worse when she is an influence in the highest court in the United States. A judge’s responsibility is to make decisions based on the U.S. Constitution & not their personal emotions or experiences. We are on our way to severing the racist ties that held us for so long. Why go backward by allowing racist statements to go unnoticed & sweep them under the carpet? We should be concerned…

HAHAHA….. these comments are so funny to read. She is not a racist and will be confirmed.

Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. (Webster) In the United States, the only form of racism has been practiced by people who classify themselves as “white.”
Non-white people seek parity and not superiority. Judge Sotomayor’s comments only show a desire to level the playing field with experiences that most white males in the system don’t have.

Not only was Judgee Sotomayer’s comment racist, it was also sexist. Racism will never not end as long as people continue to have the attitude this woman has. Racism continues in this country on a grand scale and is only being encouraged by the words and actions of people like our president, his wife,Judge Sotomayer, Jessie Jackson,,and the list goes on and on ….

By both words and deeds, she has proved that she is the most racist, bigoted chief justice nominee since Roger (Dred Scott) Taney.

I guess since I am a white male and incapable of understanding the complexities of those that I have oppressed, which allows them to make superior judgements and decisions — I’ll just go to bed. Goodnight to all the oppressed.

Once again the right wing conservatives take a quote out of context and feed it to the public to enrage the uneducated and lazy people. The press is busy looking for headlines and the rest of us have to listen to all the foolish reteric without the facts.

McFadden mumbled the word “racist” – The controversy is not nonsense. the sOcialist leader’s economic policy is. WAKE UP PEOPLE. read the declaration. military coup time.

What she ment was, her being a latina has more of a knowledge of what people go through. Being raised in the Bronx and what you have to do to suvive which makes you smarter then the white man or person that have no clue what life is out side the box. Most white person raised with money don’t know what the other side go through, that why they need to learn to think out side the box(out side their safety zone). But again they wouldn’t know how. This is not racist. That why President Obama makes a great President because he knows what us minorities lifes are like and he is not latino. It is not racist it is just knowledge.

Of course it was a racist remark. For those who think not, try reversing latina and white male. Can you image the outrage if a public figure made that statement? Being a minority does not give her a free pass.

Yes, it is a racist statement. I cannot support this woman’s bid for a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Perhaps she should try running for a high court position in a Latin country where her statement would probably would be well received. There is no room for racially biased judges on our Supreme Court. People would continually be second guessing her decisions. I agree with others… she has a predetermined agenda. Does anyone else see the border between Mexico and the United States possibly disappearing if this woman in successfully seated?

Of course she’s racist what other reason would she have for making that statement.

It is sad how as American, we can make a total judgement about a person true value and worth based upon a comment/statement made he/she made on a speech. To truly understand what she was trying to express in her speech, we should truly read the entire speech before passing such judgement. When we pick one sentence out of an entire speech, especially out of context to indicate that person is a racist, then we become quilty of the same racism when passing such judgement.

How anyone can think her comments weren’t racist is beyond me. Simply put a white male in the media to say what she said in reverse, and there would be no question – only an immediate apology demanded!
As a professional female, I’m disgusted at the comment. Her qualifications professionally appeared strong, but her character for the position is rightly needing scrutiny. She’s failing that test big time. Obama indicating that she’d restate the offensive comment if she had it to do over, is political jargon for, “Well, because it’s politically inconvenient to have to address one’s discriminatory beliefs in the press, she would likely restate her position (and would make certain to be out of the eye of the camera when she says what she really believes).” A true Chicago-trained politician he is!

Of course, it’s racist. But that doesn’t disqualify her in 2009. She is brilliant and she got her Princeton/Yale opportunities through affirmative action, not just because she swam upwards from the Bronx. So did Prez & Mrs. Obama. She was in the right place, at the right time. I am a white woman in her late 60′s, from a poor family in the rural Midwest. I got perfect scores on the ACT test and all other predictive & achievement tests, straight “A’s” in high school — and didn’t get a penny from the National Merit Scholarships because they weren’t yet giving $$$ to women. I got a lovely letter telling me I was in the Top 1/2 of 1% of graduating high school students in the U.S. that year. I was too early to get *any* of Ms. Sotomayor’s opportunities. I still resent it!

She’s probably not a racist, but it is obviously a racist statement. A white male candidate making such a blunder would be immediately 8-balled. But frankly, it’s her pronouncements about her own judicial activism that scare me – she has no problem with “making law”, advancing HER agenda regardless of the law. She is clearly not qualified to be a Supreme.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor statement IS NOT RACIST!!!!
“The strongest people in the world aren’t those most protected; they are the ones that must struggle against adversity and obstacles – and surmount them – to SURVIVE”.

racism is racism, regardless the color of the skin of the person who spews the poison. Can she be trusted to fairly judge without regard to race?

If a white man said that he was culturally more capable of rendering justice would he not be forced to withdraw? Of course he would and this racist woman should withdraw.
Her comment on the appellate court being the place where ‘policy is made’ is her agenda…judicial legislation is just fine for her without regard to how offensive this is the Article I and II of the Constitution.

What if she had said a latino decision would have been better than an Asian male, or a gay male, or a black male? It can only be viewed as racist. We have been so politically corrected we can’t admit when a white has been slurred.

Just imagine if those words were uttered by a White man about a Hispanic. Hispanic’s across the country would be up in arms, protesting against the White man judge…
It is racist; it is personal. There is no room for those issues on the Supreme Court. Period, Absolutely, No excuses!

ON SONTOMAYOR
“I would hope that a wise Latino 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 Disagree “I believe that a wise weight-challenged, gay, dark skinned Mexican goat-roper could reach a far better conclusion than her”
If a comment like hers had been made by Roberts,or any body else, it would have been labeled racist and career over!!! YOU KNOW IT AND SO DO I!!!

I am sickened and saddened by many of the comments on here. Unfortunately, the uninformed, misinformed, reactionary people who loved Bush seem to be the majority here, while the educated, right-thinking people don’t seem to want to post their comments. Some of us have, and I am glad of that. I just hope that if Nightline reads these, they don’t think that these posts speak for ALL Americans!

I do not understand how anyone can defend her saying she isn’t racist. She is saying a latino women can make a better decision than a white male….Directly saying she has more judgement because she has been “oppressed”. The people that are oppressed are white males because of reverse racism. If your so oppressed go back to your country…