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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:26 AM Original message |
I wish Sotomayor's name was Jones or something like that. |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. I don't. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. There ya go! |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Stupid media can't walk and chew gum at the same time. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
2. (facepalm) |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
35. Do you ever get tired of typing "(facepalm)"? |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
3. Her judicial rulings have been discussed |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. The judicial rulings I've seen discussed aren't for the layman. |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Do you think if her name wasn't Sotomayor they wouldn't be talking about how she's Hispanic? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. Her name. Like Bill Richardson. |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. So you DO think if her name wasn't Sotomayor they wouldn't be talking about how she's Hispanic? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:53 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Not as much. |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #28 |
36. It has nothing at all to do with her last name and everything to do with the |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'm glad her name is what it is.... |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
5. On the other hand: A guy named 'Barack Hussein Obama' slew a white guy named 'John' in November. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:48 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. To some people, having a not-a-true-American name is per se identity politics. |
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Raine1967 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
30. What is a *true American Name*? |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. And, I use to live all over San Diego |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
7. I'm hoping that we get as much of it out of our system now as humanly possible. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. We can't even have a gay American Idol. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'd rather not have an American Idol at all, but that's another talk. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. What does "10% of the population" have to do with it? |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. My statement was with regards to a GLBT American becoming POTUS. |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
11. This will probably not end well. |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
14. Diversity; its overrated |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 01:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Things would be so much simpler. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. "identity politica"? You've been infected with the Bilingual spore!!! |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. This post reminds me of a film critic who attacked Benjamin Bratt for hiding his ethnicity. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. It reminds me of all the immigrants at Ellis Island who had their names changed by intake clerks. |
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EquallyExhausted (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-29-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
21. um no |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
25. Ummm...what?? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
27. If I had a nickel everytime I wished all brown people had white names... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 01:38 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. LOL |
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Raine1967 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
29. Yeah? I wish Obama's name was Smith or something like that |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:38 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. The problem is that to most of America her name is all she is. |
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Raine1967 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 01:04 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Alberto Gonzales? Are you kidding me? OK wait -- America thinks what? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 02:22 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Alberto Gonzales = First Hispanic Attorney General. |
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