James von Brunn: That's a racist (Norman | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

[struggle4progress]

Friday, June 12, 2009
By Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

... In recent weeks, prominent conservatives have taken to the airwaves to identify racists that have flown under the radar. Talk radio hosts and politicians are particularly adept at spotting these elusive creatures.

According to these very perceptive white men, all wizened veterans of the civil rights movement, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. They insist that President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court is a racist at best and a "racialist" at the very least.

Even the black head of the Republican National Committee said that he feared that white men -- that despised and disadvantaged group -- couldn't expect justice from a Sotomayor court. The nexus of all racism in America, according to these experts, is a Latina woman sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court ...

For those silly enough to apply the tag "racist" to someone like Judge Sotomayor, Mr. von Brunn's attempted bloodbath at the Holocaust Museum is a teachable moment. They should pay attention to this ...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09163/976869-153.stm

[tom_paine]

1. Well stated column. Another place where reality stands out next to the RW Nutsoverse

that is the "reality" in their minds.