Flame… Flames… on the sides of my face…

Any Clue fans?  Full disclosure: I can quote the whole movie… in Cantonese.  Okay, kidding… about the Cantonese, that is.  If we watch the movie together, I will try not to quote the whole thing as it plays, I promise.

breathing... breathless... heaving breaths... heaving...

As I sit here watching and reading lots of news clips, I can only wonder why it is that EVERY SINGLE PERSON I see criticizing Sonia Sotomayor is a white man?

I can’t even bring myself to calm down enough to adequately address the language being used in reference to her.  It is so extremely gender and race biased that it makes me sick.  G. Gordon Liddy saying that he hopes she doesn’t have to make decisions when she’s menstruating and referring to the language of Spanish as speaking “illegal alien”???  What about Glen Beck calling her “Hispanic chick lady”?  Several intimating that she only got in to Princeton because of affirmative action.  (Oh, yes, and George W. Bush got into Yale based on his stellar academics.  She won the top prize when she graduated.  What did Bushie win?  Nada – we all lost.)  And so what that all of the judges on Obama’s short list were women?  Guess what – the bench needs one.  I’m sorry old white men, but your time is up.  Time to learn how to share.

In reference to the recent Prop 8 decision, my brother said that decades from now scholars are going to look back on this time period – our time period – and view it the same way that we view segregation and the ban on interracial marriages.  I’m hopeful that his guess of “decades from now” is correct because I really fear that it’s going to take longer than that.  Better yet, though, I hope it happens even sooner than that.  I’m not sure how long I can bear to live in a state of constant frustration at the intolerance of my fellow citizens.