I would never want to be given something I did not earn and deep down inside I think they realize they did not earn it – in fact it seems as if SotoB is bragging about it – has she no pride?

How about equal REWARD for equal WORK.. Would you agree to that?

Yes or no answers are appropriate.

How about this.. Does being a minority make you a LESS worthy individual, or a MORE worthy individual? ..No answer? or must it be nuanced with all of the transgressions to that minority or specialized segment in the past? If you paid attention, and actually read the words here, you might realize that in this particualr S&L community, the participants are blacks, hispanics, women, whites etc.. the list goes on.

And further, is LOGIC “simple minded?” I imagine THAT is essentially the problem with KOS types like yourself. The synaptic patterns get all jumbled up and then all you can do is spout the left over vomit your masters there feed you.

Here is the deal Mr deep thinker, you might be surprised, but it is purely racist to give a preference to someone based on the color of their skin, whether that preference is a curve in grades, or a position someone else might be more qualified to receive. THAT is simple. simple to understand.

I’m the child of a parent from the Dominican Republic and my 3.9 college GPA didn’t come from pretending to be an inferior disadvantaged subgroup in need of government hand-me-downs and lowered standards.

The very concepts that Sotomayor upholds are elemental in keeping minorities in constant tension with other groups by insuring they will never see themselves outside of race/ethno squabbling. And the fight will never change – the Dems can’t afford to lose their special interest racism so in 10, 20, 50 years from now their party will still divide people based on race / ethnicity and play with those people wearing kid gloves. “We know who’s running the plantation” Hillary, etc.

The concept that Sotomayor has been disadvantaged by being raised under hard working parents in New York City is laughable. Blaming “cultural biases” for her own ineptitude at scoring is beyond insulting. People like her will always nurture victim hood based on past prejudices and view their chosen reliance on the government dole as an extension of prejudice.

It’s all mine, I’m entitled, dumb down my tests so I can compete with the non-hispanics! Entitlements based on hatred, anti-American sentiments and “poor me” syndrome are not progress. I say Bah – humbug!

I’m of the opinion that Sotomayor would not have gotten very far if her test scores had been evaluated fairly instead of passed on racial / ethnic grounds. I think that’s true of her life, too. She’s certainly not Supreme Court material.

Sotomayer and her brother grew up going to private Catholic schools and she had a set of encylopedias, so that gave her above schooling prior to college.
I guess her admitting is playing the ‘I feel your pain’ game Obama used.

I’m guessing Obama got into private Hawaii prep school, “private” CA Occidental College of Liberal Arts. Explains his joining their theater to get into acting, by using his Indonesia citizenship & registration and his adopted father’s last name. He wrote in his book prior to college, his mother chewed him out, for drugs, dropping grades, and told Obama he could get into “any” college he wanted. He said he went to Occidental because a girl he’d met in Hawaii was from Brentwood. Once there he goes into more partys, drugs, drinking, a hazed life. After two years, when he arrived in NYC to go to Columbia he didn’t have money, and slept in an alley first night. Moved in with a muslim he somehow allready new, and so to start at University of Columbia with no money, probaby meant full scholarship.

And the other side of the coin is……how does this make those extremely qualified blacks, hispanics, and other minorities who have excelled in their field of endeavor feel, knowing some folks suspect the only reason they are where they are is because of affirmative action and not their genuine hard work and intellect?

She went on to graduate with a double major in History and English with a minor in Russian, got her masters from Harvard (which didn’t admit women back then so she did it through MIT) in library science – and has spent the majority of her adult life on welfare. In addition to the intelligence she also plays the harp and piano well enough to have played with 3 different city symphonies. I guess whoever said there is a fine line between genius and madness knew both my sister and our current President. I’d say the Supreme Court nominee but even she is honest enough to admit that she isn’t brilliant.

This great nation that got to where it is because of brilliance, blood, and sacrafice has had to cripple its best runners, lobotomize its best thinkers, and criminalize its most industrious…all for the sake of affirmative action. This resentful, ungrateful, race-pride lummox is so stupid and paralyzed with anger that she actually thinks this, the greatest nation in the history of mankind, deserves to be brought down to the likes of the sewers from which she was plucked by America in the first place.

What do you mean by ‘fall into the mainstream of human thinking’, dear poor, discriminated-against, Sonia? Enlighten us with your great (even though you been beat down by the white man your whole life,) raw intellect. The U.S. doesn’t fall into the mainstream of human thinking because the majority of countries and human right thought out there are economical and societal mudholes in comparison to this great country and our great constitution. And since you don’t seem to know this, you poor poor discriminated against victim, perhaps you need to go apply for some other affirmetive action position.

Even with the window open.

It does not do a single damn person any good to promote someone simply based upon their color – just read Ms Obama & Ms Sotomayor’s thesis from Princeton – they knew they were out of place (however always blaming it on the ever present ‘Them’).

Well, it wasn’t me – I was too busy trying to stay in school with passing grades – what arrogance and self-indulgence to think that they are the only ‘people’ who struggle and did not understand in school. But how damn convenient to blame it on whitey.

How far we’ve come – what’s that line well some animals are more equal than other animals?