Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, June 01, 2009 8:52:19 PM
Remember the movie with Woody Harrelson: "White Men Can't Jump" ? In this movie Woody teams up with another street ball player who is black. During the movie, Woody (who is a good shooter and ball handler) is poked fun of by his counterpart saying he can't dunk the ball because he is white (as if dunking is all the basketball is about). This movie epitomizes the whole one side can prejudice but the other cannot.
Applying this to Judge Sotomayor, Obama has already warned those who will be grilling her on her past, to "not go there". Pardon me, Mr Obama, but since when are you the head of the Senate too? We have every right to find out how "fair" this judge will be. We need to kno w that if a case is sent her way where race is involved, she will side with the law and the constitution and not her ethnicity. Is she Latina first and American second?
I am angry that white men are being treated as if their skin color gives them some sort of priveledge when we know that today, being white is a disadvantage to most. I know lots of very poor "white folk" who have to work their butts off just to get by. Why is being latina supposedly worse? Why is it even important at all?
One of my most favorite episodes of Seinfeld is where George is trying to convince the apartment board to let him have the nice apartment instead of an older man who is a vet. He and the vet square off at the board meeting by telling their life stories and trying to be more pathetic than the other. Seinfeld cheers George on saying "You go George. No one has a more pathetic life than you", Today this odd story is playing itself out on the American stage. Each ethnicity is trying to look more pathetic than the next to get the larger share of government pie. Each one claiming that their "life story is more compelling" (Obama's words... not mine) than the others. What a sad sad world we live in now. Rather than fighting for the top, we are climbing over each other to get to the bottom.
Maybe when we have to fill the next spot on the Supreme Court, we can hold a similar competition using the American Idol judging system to find the most "pathetic person in the country" to insure that person has the most empathy possible. Wouldn't that be great!