Posted on 05/29/2009 7:46:50 AM PDT by pissant
Princeton University was guilty of "an institutional pattern of discrimination" against Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, then-sophomore Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a letter published in the May 10, 1974 edition of the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian.
Explaining this charge and the rest of a complaint filed by university students with the Health, Education and Welfare Department, Sotomayor's letter continued:
The facts imply and reflect the total absence of regard, concern and respect for an entire people and their culture. In effect, they reflect an attempt -- a successful attempt so far -- to relegate an important cultural sector of the population to oblivion.
As proof of these charges, Sotomayor said:
The facts of the complaint are these: 1) There is not one Puerto Rican or Chicano administrator or faculty member in the university; 2) There are two million Puerto Ricans in the United States and two and a half million more on the island itself. Yet there were only 66 Puerto Rican applicants this year, and only 31 Puerto Rican students on campus. While there are 12 million Chicanos in the United States, there were only 111 Chicano applicants and 27 students on campus this year; 3) Not one permanent course in this university now deals in any notable detail with the Puerto Rican or Chicano cultures.
(Excerpt) Read more at ninthjustice.nationaljournal.com ...
She’s Michelle Obama without the style and grace.
she’s an ungrateful bitch...
There are 10 million Polish-Americans, how many of them applied to Princeton?
Race obsessed democrats are everywhere.
I obviously missed the boat - I should have attacked anyone and everyone for racism for not giving people JUST like me more opportunity. And even when they did give me the opportunity I’d accuse them of not pandering enough to people JUST like me.
Silly me, I figured I had to get where I was going on my own merit, just like most people.
Far as I’m concerned this woman should have stayed in Puerto Rico if she wanted to be surrounded with that culture.
She’s a bitter ‘Rican clinger
Puta Boricua. Typical of the chip on the shoulder vulgar and obnoxious Bronx Ricans I know all too well.
Sonia is more Bronx than Borinquen. She could have attended a certain university in Rio Piedras, but wouldn't have fit in there either.
BTW: I hear news that Sonia is pro-Statehood. Any of the folks on the ground in PR being pinged heard otherwise?
“There are 10 million Polish-Americans, how many of them applied to Princeton?”
Precisely! Many other groups are less represented. She thinks of nothing but being ‘Puerto Rican’. The very definition of a racist.
And far uglier than Michelle.
She left PR, because even they didn’t want her.
But no less affable, gracious, humble, and fondly admired by her past legal contacts
(all sarc, you do understand)
Congratulations on your likely selection as “Freeper poster of the Day” by Bill O’Reill’ys research staff
RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE. RACE.
Geeez, what IS it with these minority libs who have done nothing but benefit from Affirmative Action but it’s not enough - they want their A**es kissed CONSTANTLY by everyone, all the time! Cripes....STHU!!!!!!
I don’t know if she’s pro-statehood or not, but she did publish a Note in the Yale Law Journal back in 1979 regarding the possibility of the federal government ceding seabed rights to the government of Puerto Rico, and she seemed to assume that statehood was inevitable, so she’s not an independentista.
I hope so! There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.