Senator Jeff "Vanilla Man" Sessions
When I hear the voice of Senator Jeff Sessions my radar goes up and I feel the need to be very careful because of a threat. I do not believe that Jeff Sessions has the best interest of me in mind or the American people that look like me. I'm a Black American.
When you read the biography of Senator Jeff Sessions it's very clear who he has in mind when he legislates from the Senate. Let's be clear I choose to accept Senator Sessions as the racist that I think he is. There is a law against segregation but I do not believe there is any American law against being a racist. My opinion is , also , that Senator Sessions as some sexism associated with his platform; anybody that agreed with the Ledbetter decision simply as to.
It's not that every Southern man is expected to be racist and anti-Black. But American Black people understand our American culture; including that of the South. American Black people lived in the South and under the Confederacy. American Black people took care of the Southern estates and raised the children of the Southern power elite; while at the same time were being talked about by the same Southern power elite like we were a plague upon the earth. This is a defiant way to live in the world in my opinion but this is fundamental to what the South was then and , in many cases , what the South is still today. Especially Alabama.
I believe that Senator Sessions would be totally satisfied to live in 19th Century America. It appears that Senator Sessions would be happy in a totally "Rich Vanilla Male" America. One where White men rule and everybody else can just can stay in the "back of the bus". So when I hear Senator Sessions go after Sonja I feel I know where he's coming from; my radar went up when I heard the voice. I understand that it would probably be the moment that most Republicans would want from Sonja but if I were her I would be tempted to just ask the Senator would a return to a totally White and Male Supreme Court be alright with him?
Senator Sessions needs to understand that America is not going to be the "Vanilla" influenced country that it was in the past. It's never going to happen again. I or any member of my American family will never pick cotton for free again. And that White men are not the only successful arbiters of legal policy in America.
So I heard the voice of Senator Sessions and gave him a brief chance in the Sonja hearings. It didn't take long to confirm that Senator Sessions is not and will never be enlightened enough to live , successfully , in the coming new world. Instead he seems to want to revert to the past and live in a time when only his "type" felt that they should hold sway; period. So Senator Sessions is living the lie and he's the problem in my opinion and Sonja represents more of the solution.
It's important also that Senator Sessions understand what I would do if I were the President of the United States. That is I would be the President for him too. I would insist on is right to be wrong with the obvious racist and sexist positions he really chooses to take. And that I also realize he chooses to effectively hide behind a strategic rhetoric that sounds good. It's Senator Jeff Sessions right to be racist and sexist but he must be careful when acting on that as a Senator. So I feel there is a difference between what I would do and what Senator Jeff Sessions would do if we were both in the same position. That difference is that I would be the Senator for all the American people and not just some of them. The fundamental problem with Senator Sessions is not so much that he's just for an exclusive part of America but that he's against another certain portion of the American people. And many millions of Americans see that and are clear who Senator Jeff Sessions really is.
So to conclude Senator Jeff Sessions needs to understand that the world is heading for new direction. And that non-White men and women are going to be a representative part of it. And I also want Senator Sessions to understand that I have every expectation that these new and non-White male and female American participants are not going to repeat the mistakes of the American past. The American past is going to be touted , in history , as our great mistake. Hopefully our American future will be touted as our great reckoning and the time when we decided to create and respond to the real American idea. Let's hope that Americans like Senator Sessions , who is the problem , decide to go along and become part of the solution. Thank You.
















I think it rich that Jeff Sessions was denied a judgeship by this very committee because of his racism.
July 14, 2009 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed! In 1986, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship by Reagan. The nomination was killed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which refused by a 9-9 vote[3] to let the nomination come to the Senate floor for a vote. Sessions's opponents accused him of "gross insensitivity” on racial issues
July 14, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
This was a Republican majority panel.
July 15, 2009 9:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
You've got that right, but don't feel bad. I'm a liberal old white woman. Sessions doesn't like me, either. Which wouldn't bother me so much--as I suspect it wouldn't bother you--except he's ignorant, he has a big mouth, he gets on TV a lot, and he holds a position of power in the Congress of the United States.
How the hell did that HAPPEN?
July 14, 2009 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Simple. One word: ALABAMA
July 14, 2009 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Alabama forced him on us, but every time I turn around he's on TV or in the press shooting off his big no-nothing mouth. Can't blame it all on Alabama. (Though I'd like to.)
July 14, 2009 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, that's "know-nothing". But "no-nothing" might be appropriate, too, since his single answer to everything good for us is "no".
July 14, 2009 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jeff Sessions will go to his death not realizing that the times are achangin or that anything in this big wide world matters more than the repub party and the rich oligarchy that controls his state and this country.
THE END
oh, AND NICE POST VIPER!!!!!
July 14, 2009 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't the double standard an intersting occurance in politics? He completely ignores his inabilty to be judging while white, but holds it against Sonya if she might be judging while Latina AND a female. Maybe that's the double standard he fears, she should be a latina AND a female. That's two strikes against her.
If I was to go into a baseball analogy, and I hear that's been going around so I will, and I already took one swing at it {somebody stop me before I analogize again!!!}, Sonya doesn't just get a hit, she hits a double!
Steal third, Sonya! Go for home!
We are ALL rooting for you that realize Rich Vanilla Male is so two centuries ago. We do want a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, ALL the people.
Your loving Gringo, Gregor
THE END HA!
July 14, 2009 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Man that's a great observation about Sessions judging while white being critical of the women judging while Latina. Isn't it going to nice when we really grow up as people. I hope it doesn't take another 5,000 years.
July 14, 2009 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm just borrowing a dream that we will judge people based on the content of their characer, Viper! That would be very nice.
July 14, 2009 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
"would a return to a totally White and Male Supreme Court be alright with him?"
It would be all right with me. As would a change to an all-hispanic female Court. Presuming, in both cases, that the judges thereon did their durned jobs.
July 14, 2009 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
The right thing to have always done would have been to have our American Supreme court reflect the American people in more real terms then it has did in our American past. I would never accept a all Hispanic court for the same reasons I never accepted the other.
July 14, 2009 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I'd just like to say watch the Sotomayor hearings and see bigoted white men making fools of themselves.
July 15, 2009 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Viper 123: Sessions is also one of the Pro-Torture Nine Senators, and there seems to be a strong correlation between them and the anti-Sotomayor faction.
July 15, 2009 4:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well then instead of "killing hem all" like I would like to lets "torture hem all" which would porbably be more fair and instructive.
July 15, 2009 8:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions grew up in the small Alabama town of Monroeville, home to Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird" as well as home to Cynthia Tucker, a progressive writer at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He was known as Buddy to his friends, an unexceptionable kid, yes, a vanilla boy, but you have to wonder how he managed to escape the enlightment that was in the air that led Ms. Lee down the road to her master work which deplored racism. I cringe when I hear the honeysuckle dripping from his voice as he viciously unloads on Judge Sotomayor.
July 15, 2009 12:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
In reading your post today, Viper, as well as in reading Wattree's, I am struck by the Tolerance with a capital T you both demonstrate when you might so reasonably be gritting your teeth with anger when confronted by the blusterings of a retro white male asshat like Sessions.
In fact, both you and Wattree personify the real definition of tolerance:
tol⋅er⋅ance [tol-er-uhns] Show IPA
–noun
1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.
3. interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint.
By demonstrate tolerance, you demonstrate something else -- an amazing grace that Bible thumpers like Sessions and his ilk would not begin to understand.
Thank you for your post.
July 15, 2009 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree wholeheartedly with you. One thing you said made me think again of something a bit unrelated that has always baffled me...
You said -
"American Black people lived in the South and under the Confederacy. American Black people took care of the Southern estates and raised the children of the Southern power elite; while at the same time were being talked about by the same Southern power elite like we were a plague upon the earth."
That is true. So what I never can understand is why did the slaves and their decendents embrase the white slave owner's religion? How on earth do African Americans not see the inherant hypocracy? The old confederate slave owners and Senator Sessions hide their faults in a cloak of Christianity for their "respectability". So why are southern black Baptist ministers selling anything but the same myths interpreted to their own frailness and ego while wearing Rolex watches and always, always passing the plate?
July 15, 2009 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink