Sotomayor : Still Under Attack with New Old Stereotypes
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Controversia|Magazines|Media|Politics|race|Women
7 Jun 2009The attacks on Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, haven’t let up.
Newt Gingrich, everyone’s favorite oppressed white man, took a step back from the assertion that Sotomayor claiming her identity equals racism.
Then we have Pat Buchanan talking about Sotomayor and that Puerto Rican group (cuz you know there is only ONE Puerto Rican group).
Last pero certainly not least is the cover of the National Review featuring Sotomayor as a slant eyed, bucktoothed Buddhist.
Ah yes, porque a Puerto Rican can’t be wise draped in a Puerto Rican flag, eating a bacalaito, and shaking her big ass. And anyway that would be a Puerto Rican stereotype. Much better to use an East Asian physical stereotype and Asian model minority/smart stereotype, no?
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5 Responses to Sotomayor : Still Under Attack with New Old Stereotypes
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Hi and Lois
June 7th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Personally, I believe in Barack Obama.
No one knows his potential, how great he might be if people just gave him the chance.
Rosa
June 9th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Its as if the National Review believes that because wisdom is a good thing and Asians are also other-ed they can get a free pass by using this kind of imagery. Imagery, that is only funny if you are actually racist in a number of ways. They really go for gold on this one, somehow simultaneously making fun of race and religion. I am almost impressed, and by impressed I mean super offended… Here is a great story about it (multiple sources): http://www.newsy.com/videos/wise_latina_cover_to_cover
another angry woman of color reference, really? « Live. Laugh. Love.
June 18th, 2009 at 2:26 am
[...] another angry woman of color reference, really? You would think it would get old, but apparently not. Not even for NPR. In an article earlier this week, the ever so slightly left-leaning news asked Is Sonia Sotomayor Mean? This really doesn’t come as a surprise to me, especially not after the racist and sexist commentary that the right has been blasting out for the past couple of weeks. CNN reports question her intelligence and temperament—as if calling a woman of color unintelligent or too emotional is anything original. Despite whatever accomplishments women of color (WOC) make, WOC will still be questioned as not smart enough, stable enough or capable enough, especially in comparison to a white/male counterpart. Sotomayor is the current case and point. Having graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and edited the Yale Law Journal and Yale Studies in World Public Order during her time at Yale Law School, not even Sotomayor is exempt from the bullshit—again and again. [...]