Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Puerto Rican cultural heritage is an important part of who she is and why she might make a good Supreme Court Justice, former Oakland Tribune columnist William Wong writes in a piece posted on Hyphen's homepage.
Wong says her cultural heritage and background -- as well as the fact that she is a woman -- re-animates a continuing debate in America about power and equal opportunity. The debate is being used by conservatives to pummel those from the historic margins of American life -- women, and non-white ethnic minorities. Read Wong's full column.
If you'd like to comment on his column, come back here to do it.
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Posted by Harry at June 1, 2009 6:20 PM
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Affirmative action = reverse discrimination against Asian Americans
You can love her ethnic background all you want, but the law and the constitution must not be defined by it. Affirmative action is surely reverse discrimination against Asian Americans. I'm not sure if Wong has attended college lately, but it's becoming increasingly popular for Asians to be on the bottom of the affirmative action list next to the nonexistent Caucasians.