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Sotomayor and Race

By Rebecca Zietlow

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Given the years of virulent racism that minorities in our country have faced throughout our history, it is a bit shocking to see right wingers like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh accuse Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic ever nominated to that Court, of being a “racist,” based solely on one remark that she made in a [...]

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).

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