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Passing Judgment

by MURALI BALAJI , September 17, 2009

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Dr. Miguel Centellas says the controversy surrounding the Sotomayor nomination and confi rmation indicates that the country has a long way to go with how it deals with race and ethnicity, particularly in political discourse.
Centellas, however, says the ugliness of the Sotomayor nomination and confi rmation process indicates that the country has a long way to go with how it deals with race and ethnicity, particularly in political discourse. Until then, he notes, being empathetic or showing that one’s ethnicity shapes his/her experiences won’t go over well with many Whites, whose perspectives with some exceptions have been shaped by the idea they don’t have ethnic backgrounds.

“We have to have a conversation in this country that everyone has an ethnicity,” he says. “I think someone has to initiate it. And I think that person has to be White.”



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