Posted on 06/04/2009 7:30:22 AM PDT by Alaphiah123
In a bid to gloss over the highly controversial racial charged comments that Mr. Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court has made concerning White men or White male judges in particular the Democrat Party made a concerted effort on Tuesday to give Latina Judge Sonia Sotomayor another chance to say what she said in 2001 but this time say it like a Supreme Court nominee.
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they plan to make the confirmation hearing about Limbaugh and other critics and we all know it.
NOBODY gets a do-over on this sort of utterance.
Can’t unring that bell.
A large part of Puerto Rican heritage, by the way, is Irish. Back when children were sold into bondage, one of the major exports of Ireland after the potato famine WERE children who could be held as slaves until they reached a certain age, and many of them ended up on Puerto Rican cane fields. Look into the face of some of these Puerto Ricans and you will see the map of Ireland carved there, mixed with the Timucuan Taino Indians and a little bit of Africa.
So, yes, there is a BIG measure of race involved here.
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