By Paul Chesser on 5.27.09 @ 2:44PM
Newt Gingrich has followed Rush Limbaugh in calling Sonia
Sotomayor a racist, based upon her 2001 statement, "I would hope
that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience
would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white
male who hasn't lived that life."
Newt Gingrich has followed Rush Limbaugh in calling Sonia
Sotomayor a racist, based upon her 2001 statement, "I would hope
that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience
would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white
male who hasn't lived that life." CNN Sucks
notes in its political blog:
On Wednesday, Gingrich tweeted: "Imagine a judicial nominee
said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a
latina woman.' new racism is no better than old racism."
Moments later, he followed up with the message: "White man
racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist
should also withdraw."
President Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked about
Gingrich's charge, and he responded:
"I think it is probably important for anybody involved in
this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which
they've decided to describe different aspects of this impending
confirmation," Gibbs said.
Be careful or what? Tell us what will happen to those
who want to express their opinions about this, Gibbsy.
And don't try to convince us that there are "oh so many other
great aspects of this appointment" to consider other than
Sotomayor's ingrained racism and incapability to mete justice out
with blindness towards race, religion, class, etc. Carrying
Newt's point a bit further, had a white male nominee expressed
his superior experience to a Latina woman's, there would be no
discussion about the other "aspects" of his "impending
confirmation."
topics:
Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor
