Comments on: What is a racist? http://www.lolife.com/2009/05/what-is-a-racist/ blunt observations Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:20:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: PA32R http://www.lolife.com/2009/05/what-is-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 PA32R Sun, 31 May 2009 00:46:38 +0000 http://www.lolife.com/?p=1001#comment-1381 I don't think it's a racist comment. I don't know her so I have no idea whether she's a racist. But I do find it to be a smug comment. I certainly don't find the attention being paid to it to be unwarranted. She is a judge, she knows now and knew then the importance of her written and spoken word. Obama's backtracking from it is unseemly, I don't think she was unaware of the implications of what she was saying. Someone who has faced the adversity of racism may very well have better or or may very well have worse judgement. There are certainly victims of racism whose ability to be objective is completely tainted, witness the OJ trial. I don't mean to imply Sotomayor is such a person. As I stated in <a href="http://hamiltonianfunction.blogspot.com/2009/05/completely-off-topic.html" rel="nofollow">my blog post</a> on the topic, my concern is whether or not she'll be able to live up to the oath she will have to take. Comments she's made, including the one you cite, make me skeptical. But I'm open to being shown that such skepticism is unwarranted. I don’t think it’s a racist comment. I don’t know her so I have no idea whether she’s a racist. But I do find it to be a smug comment. I certainly don’t find the attention being paid to it to be unwarranted. She is a judge, she knows now and knew then the importance of her written and spoken word. Obama’s backtracking from it is unseemly, I don’t think she was unaware of the implications of what she was saying.

Someone who has faced the adversity of racism may very well have better or or may very well have worse judgement. There are certainly victims of racism whose ability to be objective is completely tainted, witness the OJ trial. I don’t mean to imply Sotomayor is such a person. As I stated in my blog post on the topic, my concern is whether or not she’ll be able to live up to the oath she will have to take. Comments she’s made, including the one you cite, make me skeptical. But I’m open to being shown that such skepticism is unwarranted.

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