Thanks Andy...I went on to read the rest of the speech that the NyTimes linked to.
What I found telling was how after the part you highlight she goes on to say:
"Thanks Andy.
I went on to read the speech that the NYTimes links to.
After that quote from her that you highlighted she goes on to say the following:
"I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown."
That doesn't sound like a racist to me. That sounds like someone who even though she puts fourth the idea that "she hopes" a latina woman with those latina experiences would make better conclusions she goes on to tear down that idea.
She then goes on to recognize that a judge should strive to recognize that a judge must strive to stretch their view beyond what their background and experience provides them.
"I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate."
