Bloomberg News Svc: White Men Can’t Trump Sotomayor on Life Story

[marmar]

White Men Can’t Trump Sotomayor on Life Story: Albert R. Hunt
Commentary by Albert R. Hunt


July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Lindsey Graham, the engaging South Carolina Republican, lectured Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last week that if he had made a comment like hers that a “wise Latina woman” often reaches better conclusions, it would have a been a career-ender.

The cable-news commentators concurred, and the nominee, playing the create-no-waves confirmation game, expressed regret. Actually, her remark was rational and Graham’s analysis flawed.

Suppose, for example, he had said: “I would hope that a wise, white Southern male with the richness of growing up in South Carolina would more often than not be more sensitive on the issue of race relations than a white Northerner who hasn’t lived that life.”

While some might have disagreed, most of his constituents would have agreed, and his future would be as bright as ever.

The Sotomayor hearings followed the now-predictable pattern of partisan-edged questions with evasive answers, where little is learned either about the jurist or the law. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ax14uLYJWpC8

[Wizard777]

1. I find it interesting that Mr. Hunt didn't mirror Sotomayor's statement exactly.

Choosing instead to make a flawed comparison of Southern white male to northern white male or simply white male to white male. But I guess he too believes that saying, I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina who hasn't lived that life, would be a career ender for him too. If not he would have tossed it right out there just like I did. But I don't have to worry about a career. Mine has been at end for quite some time. I'm 77 and retired. I think Mr. Hunt is being disingenuous and intellectually dishonest. But that seems to be going around in epidemic proportions these days.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. al hunt is the wuss who let Bush walk all over him at a restaurant

ahhhh, memories:

''April, 1986: Bush confronts Wall Street Journal editor Al Hunt in a Mexican diner in Dallas, in front of Hunt's wife and his four-year-old son, saying, "You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this." Bush was apparently both drunk and upset that Hunt had predicted that Jack Kemp would be the Republican Party nominee instead of his father.''

http://www.blogd.com/bushrecord.html

good stuff here; not as much fun as it used to be, since he and his puppeteers have destroyed the world....