From Eugene Robinson's column in the Washington Post:
"Republicans' outrage, both real and feigned, at [Supreme Court nominee Sonia] Sotomayor's musings about her identity as a 'wise Latina' might affect her judicial decisions is based on a flawed assumption: that whiteness and maleness are not themselves facets of a distinct identity. Being male and white is seen instead as a neutral condition, the natural order of things. Any 'identity'--black, brown, female, gay, whatever--has to be judged against this supposedly 'objective' standard. . . . Thus it is irrelevant if Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. talks abut the impact of his background as the son of Italian immigrants on his rulings--as he did at his confirmation hearings--but unforgivable for Sotomayor to mention that her Puerto Rican family history might be relevant to her work."
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