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Imus Producer Was Actually First to Call Sotomayor 'J-Lo' For No Reason
New York, 9:09 PM
Wed Dec 2
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06/05/09
Sotomayor is a distinguished judge, not an entertainer. I don't care if she and Lopez went to the same school, lived on the same block, played on the same swing...the only reason anyone is comparing them is because for plenty of people Jennifer Lopez is the only Boricua they know of in existence. This whole giving her an entertainer's nickname is a vaguely racist way of saying- "See, she shouldn't be taken seriously. She's just So-So from the block."
When have people looked at a white person in political power, and tried to compare them to some entertainer except in cases where there was a clear (and amusing) physical resemblance? So, please, give me a break with that "their lives are so similar" crap. How incredibly unique to be a brown person from New York who had a tough upbringing. If she was Mexicana (which is like the 'official' Latino to some of these conservatives), people would really be acting up; in fact, I'm sure some of them really don't know/care about the difference.
06/05/09
"Hey man, it's Bob Dylan!" etc.
I was had a group of Japanese tourists walk by me in SoHo, and amongst the Japanese I didn't understand I distinctly heard the words 'Bob Dylan.'
I'm Jewish, so I might call them all racists... if I didn't think Bob Dylan was hot.
06/05/09
*drinks more coffee (I start work at 11, this is my morning).
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I'm assuming you're not a chick. Then the Dylan comparison might be weird.
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His version of "Plastic Jesus" via Billy Saul Hargis was kinda smokin' though.
06/05/09
It's not that they're calling her Paco, or Pablo, etc.
06/05/09
I thought the line was "Jenny from the block."
I've also heard the block doesn't miss her that much.
Another difference: at the center of the J-Lo ouevre there is an essesntially boring void, something that's harder to get away with on the bench.
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1) yes it is from the Block.
2) yes, it has to do with her ethnicity, of course, I'm just making the point that it was a satirical way of saying what everyone else is pumping up about her, that's all. "she's Hispanic and from a Bronx housing project." Isn't that what Obama basically said in his nominating speech? If you are a comedian, and hear that, and even if you are in anyway plugged into pop culture (albeit from the late nineties) who do you think of? J-Lo. that's all. I am not saying it's right or wrong, I am just saying it's not that far fetched of a jump as you're making it out to be.
3) Barbra Streisand doesn't have a song " Don't be fooled by the nose job that I got, I'm still Barbara from the lower east side."
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I don't think of this as racist. If he said "and because she's a Latina, she's a bad choice," that'd be racist, but this is just an observation. She and Lopez are also women; does that make the remark sexist?
Pareene:
"...some moron blogger was the first racist to publicly call Sonia Sotomayor "J-Lo" for no reason other than her ethnicity..."
It's unresearched remarks like that that make me lose respect for you. On one hand, you (and people like you) talk about her upbringing, including her ethnicity, are qualifications for her job, but on the other, as soon as someone observes the same things in a less-than-complimentary (how comparing Sotomayor to Lopez is bad, I don't know) way, you're quick to label them as racists.
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how about "don't be fooled by my plastic surgery, I'm just babs from the Bowery?"
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