Republican Grilling of Sotomayor Doesn't Help with Hispanic Voters
By the third morning of Sonia Sotomayor's hearings to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, the atmosphere in the room was practically jovial. Despite the best efforts of some Republicans to spark a confrontation on hot-button issues like abortion, gun rights or her general approach to judging, Sotomayor had largely steered clear of any trouble, and the process had taken on an air of inevitability. But that didn't mean the grilling of a Latina woman by a ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
I'm stunned by how daft so many Republican Senators are to issues of race. I also think that the best we can hope for from them is political correctness, while we wait for a new generation of leaders who are able to look beyond their white privilege, or have no white priviledge to look beyond.