{"id":8220,"date":"2009-06-01T09:49:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2009-06-05T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T16:45:41","slug":"sotomayor-faces-accusations-of-racism-by-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/06\/01\/sotomayor-faces-accusations-of-racism-by-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotomayor Faces Accusations of &#8220;Racism&#8221; by Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-060109\/2009_06_01_torres.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-060109\/2009_06_01_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/ap\/ead413b9-b82e-44ee-84e4-1fb28d563c92.widec.jpg\"\/>White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reported on Friday that Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor has acknowledged a poor word choice in comments singled out by critics. An excerpt of a 2001 lecture given by Sotomayor at UC Berkeley has been widely reported fueling allegations by conservatives that the would-be first Latina to serve in the highest court in the land is &#8220;racist.&#8221; In the sentence in question, Sotomayor, in response to a quote by Sandra Day O\u2019Connor said, &#8220;I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn\u2019t lived that life.&#8221; President Obama, in an NBC interview said of Sotomayor&#8217;s words, &#8220;I&#8217;m sure she would have restated it.&#8221; The statement was enough for conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Republican Newt Gingrich to publicly lambast the nominee as \u201cracist.\u201d Sotomayor&#8217;s decision against a &#8220;reverse discrimination&#8221; case brought by white firefighters in Connecticut is has added fodder to the accusations. Congressman Tom Tancredo took the attacks a step further by implying Sotomayor was a racist because of her membership in the National Council of La Raza, calling the civil rights organization a \u201cLatino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.&#8221; Regardless of the tone and fervor of the attacks on Sotomayor recent polls show her nomination to be viewed favorably by a margin of two to one. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Fabiola Torres, an Ethnic Studies instructor at Glendale Community College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reported on Friday that Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor has acknowledged a poor word choice in comments singled out by critics. An excerpt of a 2001 lecture given by Sotomayor at UC Berkeley has been widely reported fueling allegations by conservatives that the would-be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}