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I’m not sure if she has to “apologize” for being an affirmative action baby. After all, as Ruben correctly points out, she had no control over the decision made by the admission board and other peers. If I was accepted to Yale because they felt the student population needed more Asians, I’m certainly not going to voluntarily exclude myself out of protest. PJM readers detest Ruben almost by default, but he makes a good point. If she was good enough, then she should not have credited affirmative action for her success.

But as Ruben observes, she did just that, emphatically even. Ruben offered himself as an example of a self sufficient minority, but Sotomayor apparently believes others have to propped up and afforded further advantages. Intentionally or not, she counted herself one of those less deserving people.

Remember, she’s already ruffled some feathers with her “wise Latina” comment. Ruben isn’t pleased with whites criticizing her for that, but they have a point – if she had replaced “white” with “Asian” or “black”, then those groups wouldn’t be any less bothered. Mexican president Fox once said “Mexicans do work that even blacks wouldn’t do”. Nothing serious came out of it, but some blacks leaders were predictably disturbed.

If the SCOTUS nominee is minority and has shown ethnocentric tendencies, it’s fair for anyone to be a little skeptical.