Brattleboro Reformer
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Whatever Pat Buchanan's reasons are for not liking Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are his reasons, and most likely we're not going to change his mind.
And frankly, this is America and he gets to say what he wants to say -- no matter how ignorant, dated, out of context, racist or stupid it is. But his latest tirade on MSNBC about affirmative action being the reason Sotomayor was chosen, all I can say is, "Wow!"
To listen to a white Catholic male speak about how affirmative action is reverse discrimination frankly make me chuckle. After all, what does Buchanan know about discrimination? Nothing! I too was born into a white Catholic family and by the time I arrived in the world, we had already put a white Catholic in the White House -- and oddly enough, the first guy to use the term "affirmative action."
It was President Kennedy that first used the term affirmative action in 1961. It was his way of reinforcing something our Declaration of Independence said -- all men are created equal. Oddly enough, it wasn't until 1967 that President Johnson included women into affirmative action.
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