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All blacks and hispos love AA. They know they cannot make it on their own. Obozo knows that too.
Education Nation: Sonia Sotomayor: There is 'Still a Need' for Affirmative Action
Today //Jan. 14, 2013 // 7:04 AM
]Sotomayor, 58, the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants, received full scholarships to Princeton University and Yale Law School with help from affirmative action programs. She spoke with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie about what bearing her upbringing may have on issues — including affirmative action policies — she must now address.
“When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.”
“There's still a need for people to be sensitive to the fact that they feel more comfortable with people who look like them,’’ said Sotomayor, the court's first-ever Hispanic justice. “And that you have to be conscious about the way in which the structures you put into place will limit the opportunities for others.”
Sotomayor experienced the issue's controversial sting in high school.
"You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action,'' she said on "60 Minutes" Sunday. "From the first day I received in high school a card from Princeton telling me that it was possible that I was gonna get in, I was stopped by the school nurse and asked why I was sent a possible and the number one and the number two in the class were not. Now I didn't know about affirmative action. But from the tone of her question I understood that she thought there was something wrong with them looking at me and not looking at those other two students."