A bromide attributed to the retired U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor suggests that when deciding cases, a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion. President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, sought to expand on this notion during a 2001 law school lecture when she spoke of her hope that a wise Latina woman like her "would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male." She could have gone for "better than a three-toed sloth" but didn't because her chosen "gold standard" of success is to come off better than "a white male." But that's just wrong. Everybody knows that the Asian male is smarter and more diligent. Has Judge Sotomayor so little faith in her own abilities and such meager hopes for audacity? I am a mere middle-aged male; American and, truth be known, more blotchy than white; so I am just asking here: is there something about this post-1/20 post-racialist thing that I am missing?
Friday, May 29, 2009
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