Sonia Sotomayor: A Product Of Affirmative Action

Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself on video as “a product of affirmative action” who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to “cultural biases” that are “built into testing.” Affirmative Action tells its recipients that they're not really good enough. You can't make it without our help. This results in people having a chip on their shoulder that poisons them.

Sotomayor went further, saying that “with my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates”. “And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”

So she plays the victim, throwing out the race card. A typical liberal minority ploy. Another fine example of a bitter Affirmative Action recipient. The clips include lengthy remarks about her experiences as an “affirmative action baby” whose lower test scores were overlooked by admissions committees at Princeton University and Yale Law School because, she said, she is Hispanic and had grown up in poor circumstances.

People like Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King made their mark before Affirmative Action was in place. They weren't nearly as bitter about their experiences as Sotomayor. If the Constitution and Anti-discrimination laws are on your side, do you really need a program like this that produces bitterness and (self)loathing? (HT Real Clear Politics & NY Slimes):

Real Clear Politics: Sotomayor: "I Am A Product Of Affirmative Action"
NY Slimes: Videos Shed New Light on Sotomayor’s Positions