Sonia Sotomayor at Yale

"Dodomayor," and proud of it.

“ 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,” she said. “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. - Sonia Sotomayor, 1994 ”

My Dodomeyor hyperbole aside, what we have here is no failure to communicate.  Sonia Sotomayor is Biden-like when it comes to just tossing stuff out there that reveals her mindset - most famously her blurt about the Supreme Court being "where the law is made."  Here's TD Blog's budwhite  ["Racial Quotas or a Color-Blind Society?"]. “ I realized that Sotomayor does something I’ve heard before. She employs a very common strategy in the politically correct world of college campuses. In order to defend her position on racial preferences, she must first deny that she understands the terms. In her world, merit and ethnicity are synonymous. Therefore, one’s “experience” being Hispanic is equal with a high LSAT score. As Sotomayor points out, Hispanics and other minority students — though not Asians — score lower on many standardized tests. She acknowledges these “statistics.” Instead of attacking the real culprits of this discrepancy, likely poverty, poor education, and parental education levels, she believes the system itself must bend to accommodate “fairness.” ” A perfect example of the mediocrity racial quotas propagate.  In a color blind society, Sotomayor is a mall divorce lawyer at best.