President Obama’s latest high-profile nominations have bared scornful biases in America.
Sonia Sotomayor J.D., tapped for the U.S. Supreme Court and Regina Benjamin M.D., picked as U.S. surgeon general, are being ridiculed by bloggers, tweeters and other nattering nabobs of negativism.
No, not because they’re brown and black, respectively. Or because they’re female and middle-aged.
Because they’re (ahem) body mass-challenged.
As in big-boned, hefty, plump, beefy, pudgy.
So what if they have weight issues? Obesity is the norm now in America, especially for certain minority women.
They’re usually as cute as a bug’s ear until age 16, then pile on the blubber to ward off droughts or cold winters.
At least President Obama soon will have two experts telling him that smoking in the White House is both illegal and unhealthy. (19 JULY 2009)
