Sotomayor Should Not Apologize For Being an ‘Affirmative Action Baby’
Ruben,
For crying out loud, write about something else. Can’t Latino writers write about something not dealing with being Latino? And do we always have to bare our souls about the struggles being the only brown person in an Ivy League dormitory? (I know it’s a great way to get published — as evidenced by the fact that I only seem to get published when I’m doing the Hispanic Ivy grad routine — but at some point, people in the Intellectuals of Color industry have to go on strike.)
She called herself an affirmative action baby because it was for her to brag about going from a ghetto to Princeton. It’s not humility, it’s pride. Lots and lots of pride. She thinks her degrees are worth more than the degrees of people who came from suburbs. So the premise of your article is drifting…. drifting….
