Black Conservative: Say ‘No!’ to Sonia Sotomayor

by BMCWrites | May 28, 2009 at 03:16 pm

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By Lloyd Marcus
Guest Blogger

Coming from the projects, the story of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, is inspiring. Ironically, the success of Obama, a black, and Sotomayor, a Latina, epitomizes the availability of the American Dream to minorities as well as the greatness of America. And yet, both harbor resentments and seek to reshape America.

Here is a quote from Sotomayor: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experience, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Imagine if a white male nominee made this racist statement in reverse. He would be toast!

Despite Sotomayor’s heart-warming story, Republicans MUST have the courage to say “NO!” to this radical, extreme left, agenda-driven nominee.

Like Sotomayor, I too lived in the projects. Allow me to share the tale of why I am a proud black conservative.

CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE

A urine smell permeated the stairwell. In the darkness, due to smashed light bulbs, the sound of broken wine bottles underfoot echoed off the concrete walls. I was nine years old. With the elevators out of service half of the time due to vandalism, many times I was forced to take the scary trek into the shadow of death up the stairwell to our sixth-floor apartment in the projects of East Baltimore.

This was a far cry from the brand-spanking-new building we moved into just two years earlier. I remember our excitement when my parents, three younger siblings and I moved in our apartment. It was a dream come true, moving from our leaky roof ghetto into a place where everything, including the appliances, was new. We were one of the first in the eleven-story, all-black-residents building. While a few people kept their apartments lovely, most seemed committed to destroying the building.

All I kept hearing was that everything was the “white man’s fault.” Even at age nine, I sarcastically thought to myself, “How can we stop these evil white people from sneaking in here at night peeing in the stairwell, leaving broken wine bottles, smashing the light bulbs and attacking people?”

My early experience living in the government project taught me that some folks simply have a ghetto mindset. I also witnessed the trap of government welfare. And why were so many around me angry and violent despite getting free housing, food and health care?

It was the late ’50s when my dad was one of the first blacks to break the color barrier into the Baltimore Fire Department. The sight of him in his crisp dress-blue firefighter uniform made everyone proud, though none more than me. With dad’s new job, the government raised our rent to $72 per month. I remember my dad saying, “Seventy-two dollars! They must be crazy. We’re movin’!” We moved to a suburban black community. I truly believe I would not be who I am today had we stayed in the projects.

Several of my cousins stayed enslaved to the system and the bigotry of low expectations. Because true self-esteem comes from personal achievement, they possessed very little. They lived angry and bitter lives consumed with serial impregnating, out-of-wedlock births and substance abuse. An outrageously high number died prematurely.

So when I hear politicians pandering to the so-called poor of America, it turns my stomach. I’ve witnessed the deterioration of the human spirit, wasted lives and suffering that happens when government becomes “daddy.”

Editor’s Note: Lloyd Marcus is the Deltona, Fla.-based songwriter and vocalist who vaulted to fame for his song, “American Tea Party Anthem,” which became the musical rallying cry of the American Tea Party Movement. He is also president of the National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of Color (NAACPC). I’ve written about him on at least several occasions. To learn more about him, visit www.LloydMarcus.net or LloydMarcus.com.

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René

at 15:23 on May 28th, 2009

Community enforcing a negative mindset.

community organizers re-enforcing that too.

Not unique to the US, is it?

The Disseminating Machine (not verified)

at 17:02 on May 28th, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor is awesome!

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QueensHart

at 20:07 on June 2nd, 2009

Nice article . This woman is not going to be rejected; because of race! If they accepted her only on her twenty years of experience anyone would see she will be stepping in tall cotton in the supreme court...out of her league and not because she is Latino but because of her opinions and rulings. This is supposed to be about upholding the Constitution PERIOD. ..not a popularity contest. She wants to please the public just like O does. It is so obvious.

My favorite writer Thomas Sowell ...is dead set against her being a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. When he says it I know I am in the right corner. I wish more people would listen to this incredible man.

I am in awe of the people fawning over her like she is so great and that we are so awful for calling it what it is. Narcissists cannot stand to be critiqued . Narcissists love other narcissists ...they plug into each other's umbilical cords for they are so fed by each other.

My points here:

http://my.nowpublic.com/world/myths-and-falsehoods-surrounding-sonia-sotomayors-nomination#comment-379624

findthetiger129 (not verified)

at 12:40 on June 6th, 2009

Very well written article, and some very insightful points on government intervention as well as rascism as it applies to the Supreme Court nominations. As a fellow conservative and independantly minded human being, I tip my hat to you sir!

DismasUSA (not verified)

at 12:14 on June 29th, 2009

OK, I'm 57 years old. I remember Medgar Evers getting shot in 1963, and MLK being assassinated in 1968. I remember the "Idea" behind "Affirmative Action" legislation being discussed. They touted "Affirmative Action" as a "temporary" fix. They claimed that "Affirmative Action" legislation would level the playing field, then be gradually faded out when disparity was turned to parity.

They made those claims about 46 years ago. It's seems that the modern liberals should at least try to pretend like they think black people are capable of riding the bike without the training wheels.

It seems like racism still exists! All the liberals are still saying, "Those black people, are still too stupid to compete, without skewing the results in their favor". The liberals are saying some particularly offensive things in regard to minorities:

1) Minorities aren't smart enough to understand the same things white people understand.

2) Minorities aren't smart enough to interpret modern english grammar.

3) Minorities are to lazy to study like white people study, so we need to dumb down the tests for minorities.

Frankly if I were a minority individual, I would be very insulted by the implications of the modern Liberal's opinions, of blacks in particular, and other ethnicities in general.

Kate G. (not verified)

at 23:16 on July 30th, 2009

People are anxiously awaiting news from the Senate hearings about "Wise Latina" judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. Currently, the Senate committee handling Sonia Sotomayor hasn't confirmed her to the bench, but approved her to be voted on. In other words, they voted on whether or not she should be voted on. It seems to take payday loans at least to understand how these things work. She's been accused of being an activist judge, which is a code word for when a judge makes decisions that are legally valid that conservatives don't like, like backing civil rights, for instance. At any rate, Sonia Sotomayor won't need unsecured loans if she does take the Bench.

ann cognita (not verified)

at 13:16 on August 10th, 2009

That Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor guarantees her appointment as Supreme Court Judge. THIS despite heavy initial opposition from various Republicans. One in particular, who happens to be a Southerner, has since "reneged", having given his blessing instead.

What a mess. Face it.

1. Hispanics have a high birth rate, and, it would prove beneficial to biased Republicans to acknowledge Hispanics favorably so that said party might return to the White House. Racism would otherwise taint the possibility. (Moderate Republicans, like centrist Democrats cannot be tarred "racist".)

2. Meanwhile that Obama "won" the election for Presidency, allows Sarah Palin to operate under the radar, perhaps to build arsenal for a surprise announcement of being the next female candidate for Presidency. (If Obama can win the nation's highest office sans experience, then she can quit the governship under her own rules, and enter the race on her own terms.)

3. The chessboard ruled. As a result, the above circumstances not only proliferated, but assumed another life. It would have been to the social destruction of the country, had Hilary Clinton won the Presidency, becoming the first American female President. Never mind her extended experience.

4. It would have been unthinkable to entertain the dispatchment of National Guards, Government forces, let alone police to maintain order. Chess players monitored a community's reaction to the notion of a "black" President. (Tears; "history" being made--everything taken on messianic terms, rather than a bright, though inexperienced, black man (somehow) was running for the country's highest office. The first time ever!

The frightening spiritual letdown with an Obama loss was prevented. Chess players employed "change" as a sale pitch to win over white Americans, and perhaps even pumped enormous capital to unlikely regions to consider the benefits of this new day promised to every one.

Never mind there'll always be war. Whatever its cause, "peace" on earth, and goodwill to all people is simply unachievable.)

At any rate, messianism is poison: To deliver a community from poverty, and cleanse all other social ills faithfully eludes even a "savior's" miraculous intentions. Unfortunately this eludes the masses.

(The above tragic scenario would not have occurred had Colin Powell run for Presidency. His presence would have represented MINDS and politics over mass appeal. But then, he wouldn't have been "black enough!)