On "Wise Latina"
Ta-Nehisi Coates, an African-American left-liberal, has a post that, despite its flaws, makes an important and true point.  He writes:

"The problem with this reasoning is it implicitly accepts the logic (made for years by white racists) that there is something essential and unifying running through all white people, everywhere."

The problem with the "wise Latina" comment is its rejection of objectivity and its embrace of racism, as long as it is racism of the right kind--i.e. against the oppressive white male and for the oppressed Latina woman.  Sotomayor is unfit to be a judge in any court.  Then again, given that our President is unfit to hold any office, her nomination is no surprise.  They are unfit not because they threaten "white privilege" or, in Sotomayor's case, "male privilege," contrary to vulgar lefty feminist Amanda Marcotte's claim, but because they reject objectivity in favor of "empathy" and thus prefer the judgment of a "wise Latina woman" who has "empathy" for "oppressed" peoples, having been "oppressed" herself, to that of a white male oppressor.  In so doing, they reject the rule of law--in favor of the rule of "wise Latina woman"--and ultimately the Constitution itself.