Judge Sonia Sotomayor says she is a "perfect affirmative action baby," and that she was accepted to Princeton and Yale despite her lackluster test performance compared to other applicants.
She made these comments in a video dating back to "early '90s" that she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week as part of her Supreme Court nomination process.
Sotomayor admitted that her acceptance to the Ivy League schools would have been "highly questionable" if not for affirmative action.
"My test scores were not comparable to that of my colleagues at Princeton or Yale," she said on a panel for a nonprofit law organization.
My own feeling, based on her repeated “wise Latina” comments and the Ricci v. DeStefano decision (New Haven firefighter discrimination) reversing Sotomayor, is that she will become the first “affirmative action victim" appointed to the Supreme Court.
Barack Obama is, of course, the first “affirmative action victim” elected to be President.
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