This ad is pandering to ignorant, uniformed base with the goal of unseating Mica.

Once again Judge Sotomayor ruled that New Haven’s decision was not based on race, but on the validity of the test itself which would have affected all of the applicants regardless of color.

The nine justices in Brown v Board of Ed, are EXACTLY why I said SOME white folks and not ALL white folks (again a dictionary can give you a clear definition of those two words)

Also, thank you for proving my point about the fear of the past wrongs. Let get this reverse racism thing straight once and for all:

If out of nowhere the majority of economic and political power shifted to Blacks or Latinos, they could NEVER top the atrocities committed by the enslavers and colonizers of the past. You nor your children will be packed onto boats and shipped elsewhere, nor be bought and sold, nor will only 3/5 of your children be considered human beings. It is (and has always been) legal for your children to learn how to read, and no, they won’t get hung from the highest tree in the U.S. for doing so. Nor will any others invade our country over “weapons of mass destruction” or support death squads and/or send troops in (as was the case with Grenada and El Salvador in the 1980s)

The exoneration of the Duke Three got a L of a lot more media attention then the NY CENTRAL PARK FIVE. At least the Duke students didn’t get convicted and lose a decade of their lives like the Central Park five–then again their parents had the financial resources to hire attorneys to get to the truth. At least the D.A. was disbarred and at least Donald Trump didn’t take out a full page ad on the lacrosse players advocating capital punishment BEFORE going to trial–and that’s the tip of the iceberg (Google would crash if I went there.)
Furthermore, Blacks and Latinos are charged and sentenced farrrr more harshly epecially when the victim is White, so your comparisons of crime and media coverage are meager.

Joey, your “Croc “News/
Rush Dumaugh/David Fluke/
Tom Tancreepo/O’Reilly Fear Factor cards are mercilessly showing.
There is no cheese for your whine.

p.s. Bill Maher is actually a Libertarian.

The Ricci case in no way violated Title VII. New Haven’s action did. It is a bad place you and your supporters find yourselves in when you realize that the same laws that protect minoirites in Title VII apply to ALL US Citizens. Wouldn’t it be convient for you if we could exclude whites from equal protection under the law? That you would punish my children for the ugly past is a shame.

I should take Professor Y’s route of not responding but your response is beyond laughable if it wasn’t so reflective of critical and evaluative thinking skills

1)Start with looking up the definition of the word SOME in the dictionary.

2) A severly dislexyic white male is just as inspiring as a poor Latina, but RICCI decided that he was denied becuase he was white AFTER he lost the previous lawsuits—in other words HE played the race card (and on the race card, he won). I thought the Republicans hated people who filed multiple lawsuits. Hon. Sotomayor ruled according to FEDERAL LAWS OF TITLE VII –it was the tests genius not the race.

3) You have the chutzpah to ask the following question as it pertains to past wrongs: Would you mind if we applied this to minorites as well?

ROFLMBO!
People of color ARE CURRENTLY paying for past wrongs.(and in some cases dying as was the cases of NYPD officer Omar Edwards, Sean Bell, Fermin Arzu, Tony Rosario, and Hilton Vega to name a short few, and Jordan Gruver) According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, Blacks and Latinos made up 80% of stop and frisks in NYC and according to the Innocence Project, Black Men make up an overwhelmingly majority of those exonerated by DNA evidence. The most recent case in Philadelphia regarding a summer camp group that happened to have a large amount of Black children admission to a swim club…they’re paying the price for what is happening in their community. I hear very few complaints but I sure do hear a number of bs excuses from those forces trying to justify this type of discrimination.

4) When people of color and women have been discriminated against, and decide to take action, the usual responses from some white males have been, “Just find another job,” “It’s being blown out of proportion,” or “why do they have to sue?”
I heard a pin drop when Ricci and company brought this case forward.

Now marinate on that!

I guess you think that Judge Sotomayor should be handed the keys and we should all bow to her as she struts past us. Sam Alito did not say that his gender made him better qualified Ms. Sotomayor did. It is so blindly obvious that your opinions appear to be based on race and nothing else. Ricci was flately discriminated against and people like you are attempting to right past wrongs by punishing people of the same race today. You are disgusting. Ricci’s previous lawsuit was justified in that it was a paramount safety concern which was later discovered to be true. I guess a severly dislexic white male doesn’t make as compelling a story as a poor latina female does? Good luck in punishing people alive today for transgressions of the past. Would you mind if we applied this to minorites as well?

That old Confederate judicial reject player hater Jeff Sessions got his sorry rear end handed to him today along with Orrin Hatch (via Charles Schumer and Patrick Leahy)
As far as the Ricci case, and this whole notion of “reverse discrimination” it is incredibly ironic how SOME white folks fear the very historical past that they don’t like to talk about nor hear about from Black U.S. Americans.

I hope Ricci does testify. Perhaps he can explain the numerous lawsuits he filed before this last one.

U.S. SENATOR TOM COBURN (R-OK): Can you comment just about Sam Alito, and what he cares about, and let us see a little bit of your heart and what’s important to you in life?

ALITO: Senator, I tried to in my opening statement, I tried to provide a little picture of who I am as a human being and how my background and my experiences have shaped me and brought me to this point.

ALITO: I don’t come from an affluent background or a privileged background. My parents were both quite poor when they were growing up.

And I know about their experiences and I didn’t experience those things. I don’t take credit for anything that they did or anything that they overcame.

But I think that children learn a lot from their parents and they learn from what the parents say. But I think they learn a lot more from what the parents do and from what they take from the stories of their parents lives.

And that’s why I went into that in my opening statement. Because when a case comes before me involving, let’s say, someone who is an immigrant — and we get an awful lot of immigration cases and naturalization cases — I can’t help but think of my own ancestors, because it wasn’t that long ago when they were in that position.

And so it’s my job to apply the law. It’s not my job to change the law or to bend the law to achieve any result.

But when I look at those cases, I have to say to myself, and I do say to myself, “You know, this could be your grandfather, this could be your grandmother. They were not citizens at one time, and they were people who came to this country.”

When I have cases involving children, I can’t help but think of my own children and think about my children being treated in the way that children may be treated in the case that’s before me.

And that goes down the line. When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account. When I have a case involving someone who’s been subjected to discrimination because of disability, I have to think of people who I’ve known and admire very greatly who’ve had disabilities, and I’ve watched them struggle to overcome the barriers that society puts up often just because it doesn’t think of what it’s doing — the barriers that it puts up to them.

So those are some of the experiences that have shaped me as a person.

COBURN: Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, I think I’ll yield back the balance of my time at this time, and if I have additional questions, get them in the next round.

SPECTER: Thank you very much, Senator Coburn.