as that idiot Jesse “Jaimetown” Jackson was trying to say.

Rice University Law programme was ruined by affirmative action.

Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers too.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself as “a product of affirmative action” who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to “cultural biases” that are “built into testing.”

“With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates,” she said. “And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”

For someone who is of Latin background, personally, I understand what she is trying to say. Which is, the richness of her experience forms who she is. It forms who I am.

Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) says nothing to see here, this brown supremacist is a perfectly normal latina. Isn’t that a relief?

Nice try. The way I understand it is that she thinks the richness of her experience is better than the richness of any White male judge’s experience, and I’m more qualified than Martinez to do that understanding because I’m White, not ladeeenyo.

Ladeeenyos seem to think invoking the “richness” of their “experience” works like magic, excusing whatever else they say or do.

CQ Politics | Legal Beat – Sotomayor Repeatedly Referenced ‘Wise Woman’ in Speeches:

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor delivered multiple speeches between 1994 and 2003 in which she suggested “a wise Latina woman” or “wise woman” judge might “reach a better conclusion” than a male judge.

My Way News – Gender and heritage a frequent topic for Sotomayor

Obama has said he is “sure she would have restated it.” In fact, she said it almost precisely the same way in speeches to the Princeton Club in 2002 and one at Seton Hall law school in 2003, according to copies she sent the Senate.

She’s restated it many times. Besides revealing the “mistake” excuse as a lie, it highlights the racist-sexist double standard. All a White man has to do is say something condescending about another race or gender once to prove himself unworthy. A “wise latina” proves her worth by doing it over and over again.

Worth to whom?

Sonia Sotomayor found friends in elite group – Kenneth P. Vogel – POLITICO.com:

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last year accepted an invitation the Belizean Grove, an elite but little-known women’s-only group.

Since then, the group has been deluged with press calls, said its founder, Susan Stautberg, who explained that “we like to be under the radar screen.“

It seems unusual that all this dirt is coming to the surface now rather than after Sotomayor’s confirmation. Perhaps it has something to do with “Elena Kagan: Free Speech Denier” waiting in the wings, ready and eager to serve.

I prefer White.