Posted on 06/02/2009 11:54:46 AM PDT by lewisglad
Quite soon, likely this week, Sonia Sotomayor will arrive on Capitol Hill, where she will be greeted by a gaggle of lawmakers. Nearly all of them will be white. Most will be men.
It must be said: These guys are doomed. All of these dark-suited white male politicians, with their crisp shirts and red coordinated ties, will be embarrassingly lacking the key appendage required in American politics today. Through elections and re-elections, grueling fundraising dinners and various travails required for elevation to the highest offices in the land, they thought they had it all! And until now, darn it, they did. They had what was needed to make it in America.
But now, its not enough. These politicians are missing an identity. As in identity politics.
OK, so heres the issue, or so it seems based on the fevered response to a few sentences from Judge Sotomayor: If you happen to be a 54-year-old Hispanic woman from the Bronx, and if you happened to notice, somehow, that you are a 54-year-old Hispanic woman from the Bronx and then if you imply, lets say in an address to an academic audience, Hey! Im thinking Im a 54-year-old Hispanic woman from the Bronx and thats going to have something to do with how I look at the world and oh, by the way, Im thinking that may even give me a better perspective on the tapestry of global human experience than a rich white guy from Greenwich, Connecticut .
Well, you have just entered the world of identity politics.
There appears, well understate, to be concern among some conservativesand I do emphasize some, because theres a whole group of smart conservatives that Sonia Sotomayors so-called identity politics have compromised her legal judgments, and would continue to do so on the Supreme Court.
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If they’re being indoctrinated, but not educated,
and our homeschoolers are being educated, and not indoctrinated, well,
the homeschoolers will be the equivalent of the “frozen time travelers” in the Idiocracy movie.
A couple of stats - homeschoolers AVERAGE in the 85th academic percentile and they are 90% likely to keep their Christian faith into their adulthood, all the way through college. And an anectdotal observation - they have big families, 5-6 kids on average.
God has a plan for these kids.
I am glad to hear they have BIG families. The BIGGER the better.
The future of America and western civilization depends on them.
In our church, there are about 100 families.
Every family with kids homeschools; that’s about 90 of the families.
There are probably 500 kids in the church.
That’s beautiful. What kind of church is it?
“Family Integrated”, but non-denominational.
It was great to find. It’s on some wooded land, and the boys will go play paintball and airsoft after services & meals, etc. The girls are all “little mothers”.
It’s like stepping back in time to when America/Christian values were mainstream instead of marginalized. We spend as much time there as we can.
“Two sides of the same argument:
The most successful, free-est, and highest standard of living societies were made by WHITE MEN.
By comparison, name a brown society that even comes close, ever, throughout history.”
Sotomayor should be held accountable for her anti-white comment, but whites do not have a monopoly on being capable of creating successful societies. Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are examples of some non-white societies that have been very successful. India is steadily getting better, but has a very long way to go. My point is that you don’t necessarily have to be white, or any other race, to be successful, that is one of the beautiful things about America. It’s ironic that those on the left like to see themselves as the enlightened ones on race, when they are actually the ones working the hardest to create racial disharmony. They pay lip service to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., yet they work against his philosophy that people should “...not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
The key to a successful society, indeed, is not skin color, it’s liberty, and a culture that values liberty and personal responsibility.
Which really shows a lack of judgement for a judge, particularly headed for the highest court in the land.
LaRaza will have a seat on the Supreme Court.
How quaint.
You are indeed fortunate.
“The key to a successful society, indeed, is not skin color, its liberty, and a culture that values liberty and personal responsibility.”
Yeah, but for years many ‘minorities’ have been bombarded with leftists propaganda. Whether it be in their home country south of America or in the first black newspapers.
It’s becoming more and more...a ‘what’s in it for me’ cultural/racial war. The dems are holding that position and the republicans are too scared to hold a solid position of liberty.
Mere history lessons and critical thinking at a young age would eliminate the barriers we face; but it seems that front is so solidly engaged by the left, that the right has given up.
If ever the Left reaches their goal of total minority racism/tribalism socially, politically and economically, and white men begin to see that tribalism is in full force and there is no way around it with sweet words of constitutional ideals, they will take the Left up on the game. On a level playing field of tribalism for tribalism, the Left is dead at that point.
I don’t fear a level playing field. I welcome it. I choose not to associate with those that do.
Fear it...
And making whites feel impotent.
LOL...good one :)
I have studied the Industrial Revolution and knew that an pastoral and agrarian way of life in England was lost forever. Sad in one way, but it eventually freed men and women from dawn until dusk labour. The cost was frightful. As it was in the United States when people worked a 100 hours a week. Eventually the use of electric power and proper heat and light with decent systems of cleansing of the water supply, brought about the life expectancy which is about 76/80 years of age today.
The names stand out in history. James Watt (Scotsman- steam generated power. Stephenson (railway trains) Newcommen ( pumping engine), Edison of the USA, etc. Then men like Lister (anesthetics) Gray (Anatomy) to Banting (Insulin) and so on. Many major discoveries are made by white men, the unsung heroes- unless they get the Nobel Prize.
Well enough said by me, but I have had enough of this nonsense by persons who merely batten off the system- the system established by white people.
All things being equal and without regard to preferences, that is the best way to be.
Argh! You beat me to it.
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