.Sonia Sotomayor.

Sonia Sotomayor grew up in the South Bronx as the daughter of two Puerto Rican immigrants. Her father died when she was nine years old and her mother had to pick up another job to support the family. If that was not enough soon after Sotomayor was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes. Sotomayor studied her way out of the Bronx and into Princeton University and graduated with an A.B. She then went on to Yale University. She accomplished more by the time she was 26 than most people will have accomplished in their whole lifetime.

Now conservatives are all up in a bunch because of a comment she made in a speech she delivered at UC Berkley back in 2001. She said, "I would hope that a wise Latina women with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who has not lived that life." I'm still waiting on the racist part...Rush Limbaugh had the audacity to come out and call not only Sotomayor a reverse racist but Obama as well. This is the same man who coined the term Barack the Magic Negro. By no means is that quote racist if anything it is a fact. This is coming from a young Hispanic woman who worked her way out of one of the toughest ghettos in America and went on to graduate from two of the top Universities in the world. This is basically unheard of. She has faced more discrimination and hardship than most people have ever read about. She is making a comment on what some might call "white blindness." If you have never seen poverty, if you have never had to struggle, if you have lived in the middle class your whole life how empathetic can you really be towards the lower working class? This is not about not caring this is about ignorance and I use that term without a negative connotation behind it. If you have never experienced poverty, there is really only so much you can truly know about it.

This is not a question about reverse racism or some idealistic, trigger-happy liberal. This is about Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic woman, elected to a powerful position in this country. This is anti-woman politics and anti-Hispanic politics. I'm glad to see another woman on the bench, a Hispanic woman at that. All we need now is a middle-eastern Asian, gay, atheist transsexual on the bench but until that time I will continue to complain about how unequal this country truly is.