To say that the gender and ethnicity should effect the judicial decision making is ignorant and purely embarrassing on behalf of the Latinos she represents. People of "color" work extremely hard to be able to sit in the potions that they earned. Whether or not they were granted that position because of their ethnicity is irrelevant. Most of the time it may or may not work to their advantage to gain that power. It's a 50/50 chance. They may have a foot in the door because of their ethnicity and in the same instance it can be their handicap. As a Latina myself, I have to say that at times you have to work ten times harder when you're a person of "color." So once you're in a judicial position, why would you make decisions that any other judge would make? Why would you let your ethnicity affect the decisions you make? If a Caucasian judge were to say the same thing...would they not feel the backlash of their words? Would Judge Sotomayor say it would be fair for a Caucasian judge to make decisions based on their ethnicity? I don't think so, I think that if she were Caucasian that is would have the reverse effect. We're in 2009....we have a black president...and we shouldn't be still talking about ethnicity or race. The more you talk about races, the quicker you're losing the battle for everyone.