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(Originally posted on: 05-29-09 07:32:29 PM)
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Being bored and unemployed, I did something that I haven't done in a fair three years; read up on national politics. This new face, Sonia Sotomayor, has been getting a lot of hoopla on CNN for being the first Hispanic woman to be seriously considered for the Supreme Court and, interested in her politics, I did a search on her. I managed to find this seemingly bland article about her general biography and, after scanning through it, something stood out; she is a member of the National Council of La Raza.
For you laymen out there, La Raza means "The Race" in Spanish, and if you know anything about its politics, that name pretty much sums up what the organization stands for. They are a lobbying group which advocates illegal immigration, secessionist political movements in the West for a "Hispanic homeland" (also related to the Aztlan movement), and, when they aren't busy breaking down established laws, special earmarks for districts with primarily Hispanic ethnic blocs.
The curious thing about all of this, though, is that no one on the Republican side has made any sort of stink about this fact. I mean, just look at the ease at which they could paint Sotomayor as a special-interests judge who would be obviously not objective to the word of the law when it comes to issues Hispanics stereotype themselves as being focused on. Wouldn't it seem that they should raise this point en masse on the air waves and in the blogosphere? But of course not, that would be racist, now wouldn't it?
But shift your gears here for a moment if you would; instead of nominating this woman, what if Obama nominated a middle-aged white male who was associated in the same way that she is to La Raza with, say, the Ku Klux Klan? What would the outcry be? I'm sure it would be so great that it would probably be political suicide even for the venerable Barrack Obama who can do no wrong.
But to my point, why is this so? Why has this organization not been mentioned at all in the general media when, if something like the KKK had been linked back to a white guy running for the same position, it would have been over before it started? Is there some type of double standard here when it comes to what racist ideologies are acceptable in polite political discourse? If there is, I would like to know what the difference between the two is.
A witty saying proves nothing - Voltaire
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