*** Terry Keleher, with the Applied Research Center, explains why calling wolf on reverse racism is at the heart of Sonia Sotomayor’s trial and America’s problem with racism.
Recently I called a news-thumbing girlfriend to give me her quick review of the Judge Sonia Sotomayor hearings. I was instantly moved by my friend’s passion — and her belief that Sotomayor’s trial might reverse decades of intellectual progress regarding race in America.
“Once again, elected officials have succeeded in beating the race horse even further,” said Jessica Harris, a 24-year-old marketing strategist and health activist. “With a history of erasing culture from conversations about whiteness, whites are forced to confront the realities of human experience and its inevitable involvement in decision making. The Senate’s mis-analysis of Sotomayor’s “wise Latina woman” comment is simply groveling.”
Rather than recognizing America’s long dependence on the “balance of [cultural] bias” to make progressive changes, Harris said, it appears the American justice system will promote so-called objectivity in lieu of coming clean about its hustle to maintain white patriarchal domination over our laws and our land.
This is serious. You agree?
