Women in the Law
Now Well-Worn ‘Wise Latina’ Phrase is Worn, Literally, By Sotomayor Fans
Posted Aug 7, 2009 6:02 PM CST
By Martha Neil
Used by some Republican senators as a rallying cry against the confirmation of new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, her controversial "wise Latina" comment is now being proclaimed by proud supporters as a rallying cry for the continuing progress of women in the workplace.
The now well-worn phrase is being worn, literally, by a number of individuals on T-shirts, reports the New York Times. It is also featured in a number of new blogs and Facebook groups.
“I related greatly to it because you have to be really wise to wake up in the morning and go to school and work and come home and not get involved in the negative things in your neighborhood,” says Sharitza Lopez. The 24-year-old New Yorker attends college and works as a legal assistant while also raising a 2-year-old son in the Bronx, where Sotomayor grew up.
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B. McLeod
Aug 7, 2009 7:21 PM CST
Once well-worn, now worn well.
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J.D.
Aug 10, 2009 8:48 AM CST
I can’t wait until Obama loses big-time in 3 years. When the next president appoints a white male, I’m going to start a “wise white male” clothing line.
Anyone want to go into businesses with me? Maybe we could get American Apparel to put the shirt together—after all, they use illegal alien labor to keep costs down.
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Time
Aug 10, 2009 9:05 AM CST
Funny. For two hundred years the only people thought smart enough to be on the Court were white males. Now, when some point out that other sexes and races are just as wise, or, god forbid, even wiser in some respects, all hell breaks loose.
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J.D.
Aug 10, 2009 9:41 AM CST
Yes, 3, and you should also be suspicious when someone claims one race is wiser than another.
Unless, of course, you’re a believer in Hitler-ian eugenics policies and a flat-out racist, that is.
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TIme
Aug 10, 2009 9:55 AM CST
It’s a shame some races don’t get to toot their own horn as one race has done for so long in this country.
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B. McLeod
Aug 11, 2009 12:31 AM CST
I kind of like the bass ackward way in which J.D. just publicized that he does not consider “wise white males” to be currently represented on the Court.
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