Reply #27: There's no link to the quote in your link. I'm aware of what she said. [View All]

I watch KO and all the shows ad nauseum. I've seen the direct quote spread across the screen in quotation marks.

She said something like she would hope that her rich life experiences as a latina woman would mean that she would make better decisions than a white man.

Now, I don't think she meant exactly that. I hope not, anyway. Because saying that you make better decisions than someone of a different race, because of your own experiences AS a member of the race to which you belong...is a racist statement.

I'm aware of what Roberts and Alito said, also. What they said is what I think Sotomayor meant...that her life experiences as a latina woman are part of who she is, and she brings that viewpoint to all her decisions. That's not the problem part. The problem part is the part where she says that her decisions she'd hope would be better than someone else of another race, because of her own race. Imagine that statement with different races interjected: What is she said she'd hope that her rich life experiences as a latina woman would mean that she'd make better decisions than an African American man? What if Clarence Thomas said his rich life experiences as an Af. Am. man would mean, he'd hope, that he'd make better decisions than a latina woman? See what I mean? That's not a good part of her statement, and it is insulting to another gender and another race.

We are not ipso facto better decision makers because of our race. I thought that had been decided already decades ago.