The Nation, May 25, 2009 by Ian Haney Lopez
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/following_souter
The central point is not to provide diverse role models, and it’s certainly not to maximize differences of every stripe. The essential thrust of identity politics is to accord special consideration to race, gender and class (plus sexual orientation and disability)—because these constitute core, persistent, unjust hierarchies…. Judge Sotomayor deserves our support not because of who she is but because of what she thinks—especially about the most injurious forms of structural injustice in the United States: race, gender and class.