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Sotomayor: “I would hope that a Latina women with her rich background in life would make a better decision than a white male.”

This is one of the newly nominated justice to the Supreme Court, Sotomayor’s remarks. This remark, along with other not-so flattering remarks, were the discussion between Sean Hannity and Orin Hatch.

Orin Hatch is a senior senator from Utah and has been suspiciously quiet for many years, though it would have been nice to hear more from him surrounding other past political bumblings. I suppose that even those in the political arena grow tired/bored with the news-less and worthless meanderings and misdeeds of other senators, and simply ignore them. Not so many years ago, Hatch looked to be the leading republican; not shying away from the hard questions, and giving answers to the questions that did not endear him to the media. He was a rather likeable senator, and some hoped that he would toss his hat into the presidential race.

That aside, he answered some fairly hard questions posed by Mr. Hannity last night during their conversation pertaining to Sotomayor’s appointment and the senatorial investigation that will follow. When I heard the remark about white males, yesterday afternoon, it did not seem to harsh until the remark was turned on it’s ear having the white male making the same remark and referencing the Latina female. Let’s say for purposes of clarity, that Supreme Court Justice Souter had said, “I would hope that a white male with his rich background in life would make a better decision than a Latina female.” That does sound extremely racist and would be the un-doing of any white male making the statement. It’s all about who said it and why.

Orin Hatch added to the discussion by mentioning other remarks and actions that do, as he said, add to the worry of this woman’s appointment as a Supreme Court Justice. One such decision had to do with the firefighters who filed a reverse-discrimination suit when their promotions were denied because there was only one Hispanic male capable of passing the same test that 14 white males passed, and numerous other firefighters had taken. Sotomayor did not consider the case pertinent and was unwilling to forward it for consideration. There are numerous cases of discrimination, dating back several decades that are still on court dockets to be heard, and our government is considering the placement of a Supreme Court Justice who is certain to rule with a discriminatory attitude for people of the Latina race with disregard for the law.

The Supreme Court is supposed to decide if a case was properly tried according to the interpretations of the Constitution. Their job is not to decide if a man or woman is guilty or innocent based on the color of their skin. These attitudes go back to the defense that a man or woman was not guilty of murdering, raping, or pillaging, because it was societies fault. If it is societies fault, then it becomes necessary-in order to obtain justice for the injured-to try every person that the poor feeble minded character encountered during his or her lifetime. Somewhere inside the law there has to be culpability for criminal action, and if it is decided that society caused the problem, then house society in the penal institution and hand over the nation to the thugs who murder, rape, and pillage.

Regardless of the color of the skin of the person who makes the racist remarks, it’s either racist or it’s not. If color is the only determining factor in who is racist, then racism does not exist. It then becomes colorism, and who the hell knows where that leads?

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