A wise person wouldn't be looking for racial terms like ‘Latina’ to describe anyone, let alone themselves. What if people without as much skin pigment as those Sotomayer refers to started splitting themselves into groups and describing themselves with new terms? How about wise ‘Pan-Mediterraneans’? Or wise ‘Nordicina’s’? Or ‘ People of the North Sea? Or ‘Wise Unpigmented Slovakinas?
Terms like Soomayor use are designed to differentiate people from ‘Whites’ who they can then blame for everything about their own lives they're unhappy with.
I agree, though Puerto Ricans, when looking at the islands around them, can hardly make the case that the American occupation has hurt them; there will never be much of an independence movement in Puerto Rico. Some young men will talk sh!t to score with some unwise Latinas, but they know they are lucky to have rights and opportunites their neighbors can only dream of.
I’m so insecure I refer to myself as a “down-with-it honky”.