"By contrast, Sonia Sotomayor - who grew up in a Puerto Rican family in Bronx housing projects; whose father had a third-grade education, did not speak English and died when she was 9; whose mother worked as a telephone operator and a nurse; and who then became valedictorian of her high school, summa cum laude at Princeton, a graduate of Yale Law School, and ultimately a Supreme Court Justice - is someone who had a whole litany of unfair advantages handed to her and is the poster child for un-American, merit-less advancement."
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"By contrast, Sonia Sotomayor - who grew up in a Puerto Rican family in Bronx housing projects; whose father had a third-grade education, did not speak English and died when she was 9; whose mother worked as a telephone operator and a nurse; and who then became valedictorian of her high school, summa cum laude at Princeton, a graduate of Yale Law School, and ultimately a Supreme Court Justice - is someone who had a whole litany of unfair advantages handed to her and is the poster child for un-American, merit-less advancement."
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"I don't know what to do with good white people."
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