November 01, 2005

An Asterisk for Thomas

Day 2 of the Alito nomination and some Lefties look like fools. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board played the race card today:

Another minus is that the nomination lessens the court's diversity. O'Connor herself had expressed the desire that her successor be a woman. O'Connor seems to have grown wiser about diversity as a result of her Supreme Court experience. She came to see the virtues of having a court that looks like America - doubtless a big reason she softened her opposition to affirmative action in recent years.

In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America.

In the Journal Sentinel's limited Leftist mindset only liberal blacks can represent blacks' interests. There's no possibility Justice Thomas could uphold the rights of blacks because *shiver* he's a conservative who doesn't make law from the bench. The paper engages in typical groupthink. In their minds only liberal blacks can represent blacks; only liberal women can represent women; only Indians can represent Indians; etc. If you're a conservative black you're a freak of nature. That's not treating people as individuals. It's lumping them together based on gender or race. Hey, they have words to describe that; they're "sexism" and "racism."

Imagine if this weblog or the Wall Street Journal editorial page wrote, "In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman, who deserves an asterisk because she arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America, and a black man." We'd receive heaps of scorn. But if you're a Leftist you think you can get away with it.

Charlie Sykes is calling Ricardo Pimentel and the Journal Sentinel editorial board "racists." If the name fits...

In an unintentional bit of irony by the paper they worry about the Alito nomination dividing the country. It won't divide people as much as the racist rhetoric the paper uses.

"A Nomination that Will Divide"

UPDATE: As Charlie Sykes put it the asterisk "goes national." With more reaction here.