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Sotomayor On Role Affirmative Action Played In Her Life [Helped Her Get Admitted to Princeton]
CBS News ^ | January 12, 2013

Posted on 01/13/2013 12:32:21 PM PST by Steelfish

January 11, 2013 Sotomayor On Role Affirmative Action Played In Her Life

In her first broadcast interview, Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells Scott Pelley how affirmative action affected her life leading up to her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Pelley's profile of the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday, Jan. 13 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Sotomayor says that the affirmative action in the U.S. today is different than when she was in school and would not discuss the affirmative action case currently before the court. "But I do know that, for me, it was a door-opener that changed the course of my life," she tells Pelley.

Affirmative action played a role in her admittance to Princeton, she recalls, and she remembers it drawing the scrutiny of an adult at her Catholic school in the Bronx. "The first day I received in high school a card from Princeton telling me that it was possible that I was going to get in, I was stopped by the school nurse and asked why I was sent a possible and the number one and the number two in the class were not," she recalls. "Now I didn't know about affirmative action.

But from the tone of her question I understood that she thought there was something wrong with them looking at me and not looking at those other two students," says Sotomayor. The same is true today she says.

"You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: Steelfish
Affirmative action........... color and ethnic background gets you the job! not experience, character, honor, integrity, personality, hard work, perseverance, determination, background, appearance, HOW DEGRADING IT MUST BE TO BE GIVEN SOMETHING FOR WHAT YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU KNOW. And they continue to accept it as an accomplishment a compliment, recognition. SAD A##eS
21 posted on 01/13/2013 2:15:31 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Lexington / Concord, America's first gun grab attempt)
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To: Steelfish
This incredibly stupid, unhinged woman actually holds power over our lives and fortunes.

I'm physically unable to comment further on this state of affairs.....

Leni

22 posted on 01/13/2013 2:21:04 PM PST by MinuteGal (Send a penny NOW to CNN, 1 Time-Warner Center, NY,NY 10019 for "PENNIES FOR LEAVING!" (Piers Morgan))
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To: Steelfish

Yes even a hotel maid like unwise latina Sotomayor can be hustled onto the SCOTUS. What those cretins did to a very qualified candidate like the late Robert Bork was despicable.


23 posted on 01/13/2013 2:28:07 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Steelfish

Sotomayor is living proof that if you go to college not knowing anything, you’ll more than likely graduate still not knowing anything. At least that good old “affirmative action” got her a lifetime gig on the Supreme Court. She’s got it made in the land of free stuff.


24 posted on 01/13/2013 2:42:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (HealthCare IS NOT a right. The RIGHT to keep and bear arms is.)
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To: Steelfish

When one uses Affirmative Action it shows your one of the slow ones.


25 posted on 01/13/2013 3:26:31 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: Steelfish

I do not object to affirmative action; I object to Sotomayor.


26 posted on 01/13/2013 3:27:08 PM PST by Rapscallion (Obama is America's first tyrant....president in name only - PINO)
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To: Steelfish

http://obamaprincetonthesis.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/1985_michelle_obama_princeton_thesis.pdf

OK, back in the early 80’s Michelle Rodgerson (or whatever her name was before she became Obama/Soetero’s `beard’) was lying in bed wide awake in the small hours, wondering about her future, que sera sera sera and all that good stuff, thinking about turning in her journal for her senior thesis, when suddenly there’s the blinding flash of light, a stench of sulfur and sure enough, standing at the foot of her bed, Yup—it’s Lucifer. Of course he wants her soul.
(whew, long sentence!)
Beelzeebub explains that he can give her fame, wealth, a passing grade on her diary/thesis, anything she wants, and tells her that she already owes him for getting her into Princeton.
She replies that it really isn’t that hard for colored girls with a pulse to get into Princeton, and he concedes this,
so then Micky says, “What do I have to do in return for all this, Red Devil?”
And Satan hissed back, “I’ll want your immortal soul in Hell for eternity, with you roasting slowly on a spit forever.
“Oh, and you will carry around a huge `caboose’ for the rest of your life.”
She scratched her itchy scalp, rolled her eyes and finally said, “OK, what’s the catch?”


27 posted on 01/13/2013 3:57:40 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Steelfish

They preach fairness and justice. AA is inherently unfair and unjust.


28 posted on 01/13/2013 4:00:08 PM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: tumblindice

Funny stuff!!!


29 posted on 01/13/2013 4:17:44 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Steelfish

And as the country slides closer and closer to the cliff, we start to understand why - the Affirmative Action generation is coming of age and taking over......


30 posted on 01/13/2013 4:48:04 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Steelfish

She’s proud of being inferior.


31 posted on 01/13/2013 4:51:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: Steelfish

In other words affirmative discrimination promoted a liberal hack over someone more qualified. Another reason to get rid of it.


32 posted on 01/13/2013 5:08:04 PM PST by driftless2
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To: Steelfish

The story of the person who did not get accepted to Princeton because she did would be much more interesting than the story of this “wise latina” token.


33 posted on 01/13/2013 5:45:33 PM PST by utax
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