Boy, the way Glenn Miller played!
Songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days!
Songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days!
We should worry. There are doubts. We don't know enough about her. She's "ethnic" and therefore might have "empathy" for other ethnics and therefore she might be prejudiced against us - and lets face it she's dangerous because we can't know how people like that think. Do we want someone with a special social or gender or ethnic perspective instead of a regular American anyway? It's not that we're prejudiced, it's that she probably is because, well you know. . . aren't they all?
And you knew where you were then.
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
Change the "she" to a "he" and you have the same whiny, timorous Archie Bunker mentality that assured us their fear and loathing of Obama had nothing to do with the fact that he was a Ni -- I mean African American.
Turn on C-Span this morning and you have the same white collar bigotry from the same, expensively dressed, white Anglo-Saxon senators from the same tradition and the same party that fought school segregation, supported restricted real estate markets and hotels and caressed their bibles while telling us it was and should be a felony to marry outside your race. The same people whose family values trump yours, who want you to affirm their religion regardless of what you believe, who would never, however be so rude as to use a racial epithet whenblackballing you from the club. The same tailored suits who pretend to solemn deliberation to hide their knee-jerk prejudice. She's just not suitable, not one of us, don't you know old chap. It's nothing personal.
A wise Latina woman? Not at my country club, not on my court.
Didn't need know welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days!
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days!
Fewer than half of Americans support Sotomayor's nomination. That is lower than the support for Harriet Miers.
ReplyDeleteI am speechless.
These pasty old white men are missing a glaring fact. Caucasian is an ethnicity too and it is over-represented on the High Court. White culture has it's own spin on the world--no different than someone from a different background.
ReplyDeleteIdiots the lot of them. I for line want to see not just my own white culture represented on the court but African-American, Latino, Asian, Native American and anyone else that would help diversify and thus make the court stronger and more effect.
Then again I'm academic that way and apparently these days being smart is a handicap. Sad state of affairs.
We've been fed a farrago of negative feelings about Hispanics for a while now -- even those who are native born US citizens. Yes, it's disgusting and it's Republican and it's not surprising that the same old suspicious whispering campaign shit still works in America.
ReplyDelete"these days being smart is a handicap. Sad state of affairs."
It's really true. We're taught to be suspicious of smart people with their educated ways and complicated emotionally unsatisfying ideas -- and we're taught to believe in the wisdom of the masses - which is of course, pure Marxism and Maoism.
Even if ethnicity and gender mean nothing to judicial decisions, a diverse court sure as hell helps diminish the view of our government as being stacked against anyone but "regular" Americans of European descent -- and we need that.
Well, Capt. and H.B.W, you know we can't trust anyone who wears glasses, right? They're as bad as the furreners.... But seriously, inevitable-white-man prejudice comes out in the most bizarre formulations -- witness a certain California sheriff who, I recall, declared some years back that the police's choke-hold policy was only a problem for African American arrestees because they're, uh, different from "normal people."
ReplyDeleteH.B.W. - couldn't have said it better myself.
ReplyDeleteVery thoughtful post, Fogg.