-KQED-FM, Forum with Michael Krasny May 26, 2009 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R905260900
“Nobody has pointed to any opinion where she has been activist. I think the one thing that everybody points to is one line and one speech…. She was under consideration by President Bush, she sided often with Republican appointees in the Second Circuit … so I would not at all jump to that conclusion.”
-KGO-TV, May 26, 2009 by Mark Matthews
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=6833290&pt=print
“I think that she’s saying something that everybody knows, and she’s being candid,” said Maria Blanco from UC Berkeley Law School. “I think what she’s saying in that comment, is that it’s good to have somebody on the bench that knows that element.”
-KPIX-TV, May 28, 2009 by Joe Vasquez
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=50694@kpix.dayport.com
“The minute somebody mentions race, we all go a little crazy.” Maria Blanco is Director of the Institute of Race and Ethnicity at UC Berkeley’s Law School. She says you have to look at the context of the speech. Sotomayor was advocating for a more diverse judiciary because many of the issues that come before the courts have to do with women and people of color. “She’s really saying race matters. And ‘race matters’ is not the same as being a racist. Saying race matters is saying look at the reality of our world, still today, you know, in 2009, in spite of how far we’ve come.”