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08/09/09
08/09/09
Oh, and if you were thinking of Roe v. Wade, I can't see Sotomayor opposing it, so who cares.
08/09/09
So now, we have to treat people from The Bronx as full American citizens? Why wasn't a Constitutional Convention held on this nation-splitting matter?
08/08/09
08/08/09
08/08/09
dumbasses
But she is the first Boriqua.
dumbasses
08/08/09
Main Entry: His·pan·ic
Pronunciation: \hi-ˈspa-nik\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin hispanicus, from Hispania Iberian Peninsula, Spain
Date: 1584
1 : of or relating to the people, speech, or culture of Spain or of Spain and Portugal
2 : of, relating to, or being a person of Latin American descent living in the United States; especially : one of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin
08/08/09
You may want to be racist and deny Puerto Rico it's own heritage, but I won't.
Congrats to Justice Boriqua - you racist Merriam Webster ign'ants.
08/08/09
Sotomayor, de 54 años, es la primera juez de origen hispano nominada al cargo en la Corte Suprema.
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08/08/09
See, I can just point out that you are a dumbass.
And the harder you try, you just still come off as a dumbass.
Unless you can prove to me "el Diario" is a Puerto Rican owned and operated station. Can you?
08/08/09
Wow. I never realized how many people I get to label a racist or a dumbass!
08/08/09
"Boricua" (the preferred spelling, by the way) refers to someone from Puerto Rico.
"Hispanic" can refer to someone who is the descendant of someone from Spain (that's a country in Europe) or any one of the many countries colonized by Spain, particularly (as mentioned above) Mexico, Cuba, or Puerto Rico.
The difficulty you're having is your apparent inability to grasp that these terms are not mutually exclusive. In other words, one can be both Boricua and Hispanic. In fact, the only people who would not be both would be Puerto Ricans of 100% Native American descent (likely Taino Indian) or who are descended from people from European countries other than Spain, or from a non-European country. This is from Wikipedia:
"Most Puerto Ricans ultimately descend from a combination of Europeans, especially Spaniards, Africans, and the indigenous Taino peoples."
So, unless Sonia Sotomayor is 100% Native American or descended from Germans or Poles or something, she is both Boricua and Hispanic.
And "El Diario" is the biggest and oldest Spanish-language newspaper in New York City, which as I'm sure you know has a larger Puerto Rican population than the island of Puerto Rico itself. I don't know that it is 100% Puerto Rican owned and operated, but I would imagine as the more or less official voice of Spanish New York, their use of the term "Hispanic" to refer to Justice Sotomayor can be taken as definitive.
And finally, excuse me, but I am not a racist. You, however, are apparently a dumbass.
08/08/09
And to the know-it-all who started it all, it's Caribbean with one "r". I don't usually nitpick over spelling, but if you're going split hairs, well let's split yours too, then.
I used to live in Puerto Rico and fail to see the point you're trying to make. I don't remember the word Hispanic being viewed as offensive, though it's not a common word that people would use to identify themselves. The problem is that in the U.S., "Hispanic" is treated as a monolithic ethnic group, which of course it is not. That could be the point you were trying to make. Yes, trying. Good luck with whole logic thing in the future.
08/08/09
Not that I know she's a lesbian, but it would be nice.
07/14/09
07/14/09
07/14/09
Is "ejaculate" too much for the Times? I feel like my grandmother is writing this stuff.
And what a fucking waste - sad.