Sotomayor goes to Washington.

I am not going to say much about the confirmation hearings for Judge Sotomayor. Mainly because it would just be a rant about the execrable Jeff Sessions (R-AL). But I have to concur with Jeffery Toobin on CNN:

TOOBIN: What's worth noting about what Jeff Sessions -- the line of questioning -- was that being a white man, that's normal. Everybody else has biases and prejudices --

BORGER: Yeah. Exactly.

TOOBIN: -- but the white man, they don't have any ethnicity. They don't have any gender. They're just like the normal folks -- and I thought that was a little jarring.

This I think is the central issue and provides the proper context. The pervasive idea in our society is just that. If you are a minority or a woman, you are inherently biased. Yet it is always assumed that Caucasian males are the epitome of impartiality.

I think it is absolutely laughable to think that Dred Scott would not have turned out differently if there were any African-Americans on the court. But then if African-Americans, or women, or any other minority had been able to be involved in that decision making, I suspect the issue would not have had to have been raised.

Anyway back to the Kabuki theater.

-Cheers