Posted on 01/30/2013 5:27:23 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Sotomayor’s time at Princeton takes up much of the book, but her account of her alma mater left a lot out, especially her involvement in left-wing politics and an explicitly anti-white club. In fact, despite her self-description as “more as a mediator than a crusader” on racial and political issues, the archives of Princeton show that it was just the opposite. According to The Daily Princetonian, Sotomayor even “helped shape” Princeton’s affirmative action practices and used her position as a student judge to advance a left-wing agenda.
Accion Puertorriquena
As a sophomore, Sotomayor, then co-chairman of the Puerto Rican student group Accion Puertorriquena, filed an April 1974 complaint with the New York office of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) demanding that Princeton do a better job recruiting Latino administrators, faculty, and students. She delivered not one, but two letters to the president of the university calling for explicit quotas and timetables for Latino students, faculty, and administrators—and got results.
“Over the next few years, the University established new hiring and recruitment practices that gradually changed the ethnic makeup of the faculty as well as the student body,” wrote The Daily Princetonian in 2009.
Sotomayor demanded more Latinos on campus. She condemned Princeton’s administrators for showing “a total absence of regard, concern, and respect” for Latinos and accused them of organizing “an attempt—a successful attempt so far—to relegate an important cultural sector of the population to oblivion” in a letter to the editor in May 10, 1974.
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayors New Book Leaves Out Involvment With Anti American, Anti White Group
Sotomayor saw an “institutional pattern of discrimination” at Princeton. Later in a 1996 speech, she described the complaint as Princeton’s “affirmative action failures” and the ensuing pro-racial preferences as results. “A short time later, Princeton hired its first Hispanic assistant dean of students.”
Such pressure tactics were controversial on campus. The Daily Princetonian strongly editorialized against Sotomayor’s demand for quotas and timetables. “Affirmative Action should not mean positive efforts to reverse a historical pattern of minority under-representation at the expense of traditional standards of excellence,” it wrote on Feb. 17, 1975. [Emphasis in original]. The editorial page doubted how the school could guarantee proper racial proportions. “In many cases such data simply do not exist,” it noted and even called the HEW’s demand for more minorities on campus as “the arrogance of ignorance.”
Third World Center
While Sotomayor’s book mentioned her involvement with the Third World Center (TWC), she left out that the group’s politics were laced with anti-American and anti-white rhetoric. Its constitution and founding documents made this clear, as does a 1976 document from the TWC. “Oppression breeds resistance,” the students wrote in protest of the decision by Princeton University to reduce the TWC’s funding. “The history of the peoples of the Third World, who have suffered from U.S. Imperialism, and of the oppressed nationalities within the United States—Afro-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Asians, and Native Americans, has been a history of oppression and resistance.” Supreme Court Justice Sotomayors New Book Leaves Out Involvment With Anti American, Anti White Group
Source: Princeton Archives
The TWC’s anti-white position was demonstrated in November 1984, when the group’s board demanded that non-white students should have the right to bar whites from their meetings on campus. They also demanded minorities-only meetings with the deans. (John Hurley, “Black students, university debate closed meeting policy,” The Daily Princetonian, November 29, 1984).
This was an outgrowth of the purpose of TWC, which was to teach minority students to “become more sensitive to the consequences of a long history of prejudice and discrimination,” according to its 1973-1974 annual report. The center’s purpose was “to provide a positive reflection” of minority students’ “cultural origins,” wrote Assistant Provost Conrad Snowden, including political panels.
One such speaker that Sotomayor’s group brought to campus was Puerto Rican Nationalist and Socialist, Manuel Maldonado-Denis, “The National Liberation of Puerto Rico.”
“I have come from a colonized country, submitted to cultural assimilation and cultural aggression,” Maldonado-Denis told the students at TWC. He continued to accuse the United States of “dominating,” “fleecing” and “exploiting” Puerto Rico. The United States, he said, has always treated Puerto Rico and the other Latin American countries as “small children that must be taken by the hand.” “The only solution” Maldonado-Denis said at the lecture, “is through the establishment of national liberation and the establishment of socialism.”
The legacy of the Third World Center continued after Sotomayor graduated. In fact, future First Lady Michelle Obama would later serve on its board. Almost a decade later, the political tone of the TWC was expressed in the group’s 1984 constitution with the following language: “We define the term ‘Third World’ as those nations and people who have fallen victim to the oppression and exploitation of the world economic order,” wrote the preamble. “This definition includes the peoples of color in the United States, as they too are victims of a brutal and racist socio-economic structure perpetuated by those who still exploit such groups as Asians, Blacks, and Latinos and who still occupy the homelands of the Puerto Rican, Mexican, Native American, and Alaskan peoples. Therefore, we must seek to understand the historical and contemporary ramifications of oppression we are to liberate ourselves from economic and social chains which bind us.”
While careful in her book not to associate with the “down with whitey” attitudes of many Latino students, Sotomayor wasn’t so circumspect in a speech she gave before the TWC on November 7, 1996, entitled, “The Genesis and Needs of an Ethnic Identity.”
“At Princeton, I began a lifelong commitment to identifying myself as a Latina, taking pride in being Hispanic, and in recognizing my obligation to help my community reach its fullest potential in this society,” she said. “Accion Puertorriquena, the Puerto Rican group on campus then, and the Third World Center… provided me with the anchor I needed to ground myself in this new and different world.” Sotomayor further praised the methods of Manuel del Valle (Princeton class of 1971) and her friend, Margarita Rosa (class of 1974) in establishing the TWC. They, she noted with approval, “had demonstrated and taken over University buildings” to persuade the Princeton to build TWC.
Student Judge
Another episode from Sotomayor’s Princeton days that goes unmentioned in her book concerns her time as a student judge on the discipline committee.
While Sotomayor’s defenders like to claim that she is empathetic and able to put aside her personal feelings when serving as a judge, the evidence shows otherwise – at least in her college years. Sotomayor was unable to maintain her objectivity while serving as a student judge in a 1976 case involving eight students charged with breaking into and ransacking the room of two openly gay students who were pressuring Princeton to adopt pro-homosexual nondiscrimination policies. In a letter signed by Sotomayor and published in the Daily Princetonian on Feb. 27, 1976, the actions of the accused students were condemned as intimidation. The letter was published a month before the case was even heard. Sotomayor, according to two former students with knowledge of the case, demanded that the students be expelled.
Eventually the eight boys were reprimanded, given a two-year probation, and censured in their permanent file, a punishment which the two gay students thought was “too harsh.”
“Censure is a black mark that they will carry for the rest of their lives,” said Douglas S. Brown ’79, one of the gay students whose room was invaded. “I question the educational necessity for voting censure.”
Both Brown and the other student asked the college for leniency for their assailants. “They’re well aware of the seriousness of their actions. I’m convinced that they’re sorry,” he said. “I feel for them as people, and I respect them very much,” he continued. “Brown suggested the controversy which surrounded the incident may have adversely affected the offenders’ chances for a fair hearing,” wrote The Daily Princetonian. “‘There was more to it than just the merits of the case —the supercharged atmosphere, so much strong language.’”
Empathy from the self-described “wise Latina” apparently didn’t go very far.
Appalling. The USA is in the grip of subversives that have collaboration with Big Media. The various checks and balances in our culture have disappeared and we have hard core Leftists controlling the entire country. We are in a battle for the direction of our country and our side is not winning..
This bimbo has no business being on the U.S. Supreme Court.
This is what happens when we have a multitude of whites, including ‘conservatives’, who continue to insist race doesn’t matter.
Her “wise latina woman” remark should have disqualified her ON THE SPOT. Immediate “hearing adjourned!”
That she prevailed could not have had a positive to Princeton's reputation.
Princeton is no pinnacle of academic excellence. Not only Sotomayor, and Michelle Obama (a paper that will not be disclosed, most likely due to being a mediocre polemic), but also the former Foreign Minister of Germany - the one who was photographed bludgeoning a police officer during his association with Baader Meinhof and the Red Brigades.
“That she prevailed could not have had a positive to Princeton’s reputation.”
Indeed, resumes featuring graduation from Princeto, Harvard, or Yale are disqualifications for job interviews.
“That she prevailed could not have had a positive to Princeton’s reputation.”
Indeed, resumes featuring graduation from Princeto, Harvard, or Yale are disqualifications for job interviews.
“Princeton is no pinnacle of academic excellence.”
Neither are Harvard or Yale or Brown. In my field (engineering), none of these schools are even on the radar, let alone excellent. Because they can’t excel in objective studies, they simply deem themselves pinnacles of excellence in the subjective ones. Hilarious.
Listen carefully to what they are saying. From the fraudulent president to the "elected" representatives.
"The 'people' have spoken in overwhelming numbers. So what the mob demands is what we must do." It's the right thing to do."
Damn the concept of "Republic" and the role of a Constitution.
Remarkably, a self-styled Constitutional expert "professor" is unaware that, by definition, a Constitutional Representative Republic cannot, by popular vote (or executive Order,) change itself into a tyranny in name or function.
Armed resistance is the certain result, in the United States of America.
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Thank you......you said it more nicely than I would have.
This is what happens when we have a multitude of whites, including ‘conservatives’, who continue to insist race doesn’t matter.
Right. This is what happens to a nation whose founding stock deracinates itself.
Michelle Robinson Obama's thesis is available on line at http://obamaprincetonthesis.wordpress.com/
I had originally downloaded a photocopy of her typewritten version. It was full of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. I don't know if the version given above has been cleaned up. The original was a disgrace, and I don't see how Princeton accepted it.
Here's a quote from the thesis:My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my “Blackness” than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
She had one thing right. She really didn't belong. But it wasn't because of her "blackness." It was because the rest of the students on campus were intellectually head and shoulders above her. However, because she viewed everything through the prism of race, this fact escaped her.
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