Who is Sonia Sotomayor?

This is certainly a great day. She is well-deserving. It is great that he chose someone who can relate to common people. I spoke this morning to a naysayer, a person who thinks that she is just an Affirmative Action baby. I, on the other hand, will stand up for her. Certainly Affirmative Action helped her get where she is; if not, she would never have been given the chance. And, it is entirely possible that she is not the most brilliant legal mind in the country at this time (but who can really judge that?). However, she is just as qualified as everyone else on the Supreme Court. So, naysayers, voice your opinion but realize that no one is perfect, though she may in fact be perfect at this time for the Supreme Court. www.dimequecrees.com

Typical raza feedback...You're either too Latino, or not enough. Minorities, including Latinos, will always be judged, in the worst way, by their own. You're either ostracized for speaking proper english and adopting the American way or looked down upon for eating tripitas and partaking in your roots...
I've traveled all over the world and I can tell you one thing, Generally, all ethnicities, nationalities and native groups will usually help each other out, especially as immigrants to a new country. All groups, that is, except Mexicans. Mexicans are the first to screw their own type and keep each other down. It's embarrasing and sad, as I'm 2nd generation Mexican-American born and raised in El Paso.

texas5150 wrote:

Typical raza feedback...You're either too Latino, or not enough. Minorities, including Latinos, will always be judged, in the worst way, by their own. You're either ostracized for speaking proper english and adopting the American way or looked down upon for eating tripitas and partaking in your roots...
I've traveled all over the world and I can tell you one thing, Generally, all ethnicities, nationalities and native groups will usually help each other out, especially as immigrants to a new country. All groups, that is, except Mexicans. Mexicans are the first to screw their own type and keep each other down. It's embarrasing and sad, as I'm 2nd generation Mexican-American born and raised in El Paso.

How true, how true. Just like the fable about the man who went to the seafood market. He walked up to a merchant who was selling live crabs. In one basket he had Asian crabs. In another basket, black and hispanic crabs. The Asian basket was covered while the black and hispanic basket was open. The man asked the merchant why the one basket was covered and the other one not. The merchant replied: "The black and hispanic crabs pull each other down when one tries to get out. The Asians help each other out."

Just another liberal. You see one, you seen em all.

PR's hate mexicans

Shes no Latino, she's Puerto Rican. One hell of a big difference!

My advice to all the other justices: watch your hubcaps.

She is a bigot - look at what she had said and her writings.

ie, A bigot (in modern usage) is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own or intolerant of people of different ethnicity, race, or class.

El Chez wrote:

Until a true Chicano is appointed to the Supreme court the Mexican-Americans of this country will truly be represented. Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans are as different as night and day. Obama might as well have elected another black to the Supreme Court.

TRUE!! There agenda definitely in most cases are different. Puerto Rican are US citizen by birth therefore they do NOT have to cloak themselves under such illegal documentation and deception. One Social Security cards for life is all they need.

El Chez wrote:

Until a true Chicano is appointed to the Supreme court the Mexican-Americans of this country will truly be represented. Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans are as different as night and day. Obama might as well have elected another black to the Supreme Court.

It should read Until..."the Mexican-Americans will not truly be represented.

There has been no offical reports about this Nominee, and already people are judging her by her nationality, rumor, because she is female or because what some fat man on the radio says.

How about we all act like educated people (even if we are not) and wait for the truth before water boarding the lady.

but wait we must have to expand the supreme court so every one of us so called ethnic groups can be there.Yeah that will do the trick.An Irishman,a German,an Arab an Italion maybee.Let's just forget we are all here to be free Americans and duke it out.May the better man win........

Hold On wrote:

There has been no offical reports about this Nominee, and already people are judging her by her nationality, rumor, because she is female or because what some fat man on the radio says.
How about we all act like educated people (even if we are not) and wait for the truth before water boarding the lady.

Yeah how abuot we do???

This is a Great nomination!!

Kudos to President Obama on his choice for Supreme Court Judge. Sotomayor is a very experienced judge educated in Princeton for her undergraduate work. She then Yale Law school,(The most prestige in the USA at Top honor). She has trial lawyer experience which is more that any Judge nominated for the Supreme Court.

She is an inspiration to Latinos and women any where especially if you happen to be Boricua.

El Chez wrote:

Until a true Chicano is appointed to the Supreme court the Mexican-Americans of this country will truly be represented. Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans are as different as night and day. Obama might as well have elected another black to the Supreme Court.

and you still wonder why Puerto Ricans do not like you. its stupid comments like this that keep your OWN "raza" down in the dumps. Unil you overcome the stepping-down of your own race, you will never move forward. As a Puerto Rican in the el paso community, I can say that we stick together and help each other out whenever possible. My wife (who is mexican) has even commented about how we stick together as a race and wishes the mexican race would that as well.
BORICUAS!!!!!!!!!!

texas5150 wrote:

Typical raza feedback...You're either too Latino, or not enough. Minorities, including Latinos, will always be judged, in the worst way, by their own. You're either ostracized for speaking proper english and adopting the American way or looked down upon for eating tripitas and partaking in your roots...
I've traveled all over the world and I can tell you one thing, Generally, all ethnicities, nationalities and native groups will usually help each other out, especially as immigrants to a new country. All groups, that is, except Mexicans. Mexicans are the first to screw their own type and keep each other down. It's embarrasing and sad, as I'm 2nd generation Mexican-American born and raised in El Paso.

Well said, what a shame that the person who first posted is the example that you talk about. I for one was born in Mexico and came to the United States at the age of 2. My family from Mexico dislikes me because I seem to white to them. Mexicans cant seem to be happy for their own race, they will put you down in a heart beat if you succeed.

El Chez wrote:

Until a true Chicano is appointed to the Supreme court the Mexican-Americans of this country will truly be represented. Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans are as different as night and day. Obama might as well have elected another black to the Supreme Court.

Oh wahhhh! racist.

EASY MONEY wrote:

Shes no Latino, she's Puerto Rican. One hell of a big difference!

What difference is that?

Sarah wrote:

She is a bigot - look at what she had said and her writings.
ie, A bigot (in modern usage) is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own or intolerant of people of different ethnicity, race, or class.

A quote please __________

If Sonia Sotomayor's mother is from Puerto Rico, then her mother could not be an immigrant since residents of Puerto Rico are, by law, U.S. citizens. Would you write that she is the daughter of an immigrant mother if the mother relocated to New York from, say, California? No, of course not. Our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters are also our fellow citizens.