Apparently. But as a tolerant (and seemingly more inteligent) liberal, I’ll help you out.

“a. Why Sotomayor tried to bury the Ricci case.”

Who, other than shrill right-wingers like you, says that she did?

“b. Why Ricci should be denied promotion.”

Because the Civil Rights Act forced the city in question to proactively avoid being discriminatory, and since the test in question had apparently discriminatory results, they threw it out. All of which is explained quite clearly in the ruling itself. You *did* try reading it before asking this question, didn’t you? I mean, you didn’t choose to remain ignorant, did you?

“c. Those of you who are white, who support affirmative action, why haven’t you specifically given up whatever ‘white privilege’ you have to a deserving minority?”

Because I can’t. My white privilege comes from people like you being racist in my favor, and as much as I would like to give up the favoritism from your kind, I can’t. All I can do is support giving minorities a fair chance in spite of you.

There, now you have answers to your questions. Feel better?

Or is it only appropriate to tie heritage into decisions when the heritage in question is still a target for discrimination?

it sucks to get beat at your own game, no?

After this last election, I’d say Independents need to be put down.

And if that were even close to being true, we would be saying “former President Jesse Jackson and Former President Al Sharpton” now.

Republicans don’t do shame, you ought’a know ‘at.

Dude, that’s easy.

Because he apologized.

How can anyone possibly believe that conservatives actually somehow have even an emaciated, quivering leg to stand on here?

And what, exactly, is so wrong about claiming that in cases of discrimination against women and minorities, someone who actually has experience belonging to a non-privileged group might possibly have better insight into the situation than some rich white dude? Is this like a “how dare they question our omniscience” kind of thing? Is it that hard to deal with the concept that maybe we ought to allow others’ perspectives into decision-making processes that you have to start slinging around all this “reverse racism” nonsense? Come on.

Pat Buchanon and his ilk of ‘white people wrote the Constitution and built America’ folk never quite grasp that 175 years ago tha Irish Catholics were barely conceded to be human by the English-German-Dutch Protestants that ruled this country. There was a day when Bohunk, Hunky, Mick were not endearing any more than Wop or Kike were but instead signs that you were on the other side of the cultural/economic/racial divide from ‘real’ white people.

“No dogs or Irishmen”, thank you very much. Scratch a ‘Reagan Democrat’ and you find some ethnic white that wouldn’t have been allowed to sit in the front parlour back in the day in any respectable Republican household.
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An interesting factoid I learned in a college survey class on American history.

In the ante-bellum South slave labor by blacks was mostly reserved for the most grueling and demeaning labor but not for the labor that was in fact most dangerous. If you were digging deep ditches or doing mining where they was a constant danger of dirt or rock walls collapsing you hired poor whites. Because if disaster struck you ended up with no capital loss, at worst you paid the widow the days wages. While losing a slave under the same circumstances cost you a lifetime of labor, or more when you considered potential future children.

You would think that southern white workers might have figured out that the guy in the Big House on the Plantation really could give a shit about their welfare and that he was not really doing them any favors by preserving that ‘Right to Work’ status but somehow most of them never quite catch onto the con. ‘What, what! ‘White Trash’ is an insult? I thought it just meant Good Ol’ Boy!” Nope Boss Hogg wears a suit, and you’al wear overalls, and the Boss for one understands the difference.

Oh and Willis, why do you have to resort to (rather tiresome) caricature? Because we don’t even deserve to have their questions answered? Because the questions are so stupid you they don’t deserve to be taken seriously…or is it you just can’t handle the answers to them?