Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Sessions at Sotomayor of the "Latina Woman" Experience


Sessions doesn't know his history. Minorities have always understood America’s history as predicated upon a value system that was more often expressed in word than deed, but was nevertheless shared by both the oppressed and the oppressors. The history of suffering, that has been the minority experience, often allowed for an infusion of a moral and spiritual character otherwise absent in America’s history. Thus, Mr. Sessions, the voice of the Latina woman, the perspective of the Latina woman, the experience of the Latina woman, is inseparable from the American experience, and necessary in the American judicial system. We need the Latina woman on the Supreme Court. Only when every voice is heard, can the scales of justice begin to be balanced not in favor of any one group, but in favor of justice and truth.

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