Living in Southern California, I had a lot of Mexican friends, and back then, I didn’t notice. I mean, their ethnicity never occurred to me. They were for the most part good kids. It wasn’t until I was looking at my high-school annual just a few years ago that I saw how many Mexicans I went to school with.
I have no idea why that one gal wanted to beat me up, and at the age of 12, I didn’t care. She left me alone for the rest of the school year, and that was all I cared about at the time.
Yes, I hope that she changed her ways, but I wasn’t there to see it since I switched schools after that.
One of my sons has a mexican girlfriend and I have a mexican sister in law. Neither of these ladies would go around spouting crap like Sotomayor does about being “latina.”