Sonia Sotomayor may not be a racist, but the statement she made in her 2001 essay, and which was delivered as a speech at U.C. Berkeley ,was certainly both racist and sexist--"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." I am married to a "woman of color," though she would be appalled to have someone refer to her as such (do Caucasian people have no color?). The interesting thing is that our children, who are half-White and half -Chinese, were PENALIZED by race-based affirmative action, since Asians were seen as "too successful" --during the heyday of affirmative action, the University of California set the bar much higher for Asian applicants in order to reduce their "overrepresentation" on U.C. campuses. The earliest American example of race-based affirmative action comes from the South, where many Jim Crow laws were explicitly designed as affirmative action for Whites, many of whom found it difficult to compete against newly freed Black slaves whose practical skills, honed over generations, gave them an advantage.