Racism-Sexism-Perception-Reality

Professor Darren Hutchinson backs up and strips down the Sotomayor story for what it really is, blatent sexism and racism.

Although women are just under 1/2 of the summer associates and associates at law firms, they are just 17% of partners. Women hold roughly 1/4 of federal judgeships, and only one woman sits on the Supreme Court. Considering the impact of race and gender status together reveals even greater disparities. Women of color are virtually unrepresented as partners in the nation's law firms and as members of the judiciary. This is the context in which Sonia Sotomayor and all other female lawyers of color exist.

The full peice is here and compares Scalia who is praised as tough and persistent while very similar behaviors make Sotomayor impatient, tempermental and excitable.