Sotomayor is a New York – born Puertoriqueña. Her parents came to NYC from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They were native-born citizens of the USA.
She exaggerates her lowly early childhood life to make it seem like an episode of ‘Hill Street Blues,’ or ‘Fort Apache,’ the Bronx. Things in the South Bronx were quite different when she lived there than they are now. Her ‘pobre Puertoriqueña’ image may have helped get her Scholarships to Cardinal Spellman HS and later to Princeton University. It worked back then, why not use the same tactics for a U.S. Supreme Court confirmation? Much of what she claims is ‘window dressing.’
She claims to be a member of la Raza. I thought that was a Mexican Racial identity that derived from the Virgen de Guadalupe espousing a Mexican Race made up of European Spanish, native born Mexicans and Indians.
All that aside, her Court decisions have shown her to be a Racist (New Haven Firefighters), an anti-Environmentalist, and in favor of abolishing Second Amendment rights of Citizens to Keep and Bear Arms. I wonder how she felt about the Sullivan Law?
Blessed Sacrament Parish School is in the South Bronx, on Beach Street just off Bruckner Blvd. I used to go by there when we went out on a Party Fishing Boat from City Island. Cardinal Spellman HS is not in the South Bronx.
We all tend to embellish our Curriculum Vitae or ‘blow our own horn’ when an opportunity for advancement presents itself; but I think this lady is over-playing her hand.
