Friday, August 07, 2009

We might have another Thurgood Marshall. Nice.



...The most amazing thing about Sonia (click here), in my opinion, is that she has always embraced her Latina identity. While studying at Princeton, in a class that had just 20 other Hispanic students, Sotomayor served as co-chair of The Puerto Rican Club. Despite the stereotypes of Puerto Ricans at the time, Sotomayor never shied from her heritage. At college, she took numerous classes to learn more about Puerto Rico and even wrote her thesis about it. In her dedication she wrote, "To my family, for you have given me my Puerto Rican-ness."...