On May 14, The New York Times published the entire text of the 2001 speech in which Sonia Sotomayor spoke about her hope that her experience as a Latina would enable her, more often than not, to come up with better judgments than white men who lacked that experience.
Dan Froomkin, in the Washington Post, also linked to the entire speech in his White House Watch yesterday.
It's a lot longer, and more complex and nuanced than most television and cable commentators seem capable of understanding. It also completely refutes the "reverse racism" crap that REAL racists like Tom Tancredo, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, et al are throwing at it.
Except for (predictably) Ketih Olbermann, I have yet to see ANYONE on the major network or cable news programs cover the entirety of Sotomayor's speech. Chris Matthews, for example, let Tom Tancredo continually interrupt Bill Press on Tuesday with the same slander. Not once did The Great Interruptor cut Tancredo short to cite the rest of Sotomayor's statement.
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