Juan Williams: Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment was "racist"

Apparently, you think that Sotomayor's "infamous" statement was racist. You would be right if her statement was racist, but it was not. MMFA has debunked that smear.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200905270005
She never said that Latinas make better judges or justices than white males. ANYTIME a conservative talks host or commentator talks about the statement, they make every effort possible to not mention any other part of the speech before or after the "infamous" sentance, because doing so would impede their ability to lie to the public.

As for Williams, he has already said that her statement was not radical, that she was not saying that women were better than men, and that the statement similar to statement Samuel Alito said in his confirmation hearings. All true. To come to that conclusion Williams would have had to read more of Sotomayor's speech.

Now he has decided to say that she is claiming to be "endowed in a much better superior way than white people. That's a racist statement. She's qualified and all, but she can't get away from that."

Here is more of Sotomayor's speech that some at Fox News don't to appear on Fox News:

"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown."

Brown refers to one of the most important SCOTUS cases ever, Brown v. Board of Education.