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GRITtv: David Corn: What the Sotomayor Hearings Have Revealed
David Corn, Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief for Mother Jones, on the Sotomayor confirmation hearings and the Justice Department's position on the prosecution of Bush era crimes and the use of torture. Mother Jones and The Uptake have been streaming the confirmation hearings live and writing about them at their blog, on twitter, and everything in between.
Email this pageGRITtv: The NAACP and 100 Years of History
The NAACP turns 100 and the civil rights organization is celebrating this week in New York. Looking back, looking ahead what?s changed and what hasn't? With the financial crisis disproportionately impacting African Americans, the first black president in the White House, and the nomination hearings of Sonia Sotomayor we review the past few days and the last 100 years. Hilary Shelton, Director of the Washington, D.C. bureau of the NAACP, Sonia Ossorio, President of the National Organization for Women in NY, Derrick Johnson, President of the Mississippi NAACP, and James Rucker, Executive Director of Color of Change on the role of the NAACP and other activist organizations inside and outside the beltway.
GRITtv: The F Word: The Kind of Bias Jeff Sessions Can Support
I said it in June, I'll say it again. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is up for confirmation and some jackasses are still ? still -- saying she has to explain her "wise Latina" comment? Altogether now - what did Sotomayor say? "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't lived that life." And what was she talking about? Trigonometry? The price of milk? No. The topic under discussion was race and gender discrimination. Talking about judging such cases, Sotomayor argued that the experience of facing discrimination might lead to a better decision about discrimination. As I said in June, maybe it?s different on the moon--but here in the real lived USA--for centuries, white males have been the norm and all "others" have had a different experience. A different experience ? not of snow or math or what the constitution says ? but of discrimination. At the time I was finding it hard to believe that in a season that saw the killing of an off duty police officer by an another police officer in New York, in part because he was black, and the planned assassination of a doctor in Wichita because he helped women, it?s hard to believe that anyone in their right mind would disagree with Sotomayor that difference exists in the United States.
