San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2009 by Ian Haney Lopez
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/01/EDV017URB2.DTL
Sotomayor posited that racial identity matters in how judges make decisions. She said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life….” Does this sound like a racist? No. It sounds like someone wrestling frankly with the heterogeneous identities we previously used to erect inequalities, and on which America now seeks to build its strength.