The nominee’s Sotomayor, Whom all good Latinos adore But right-wingers tend to deplore. They’d like to show Sonia the door. Her record, they say, heretofore Reveals that beliefs at her core Would favor minorities more: She’d hand them decisions galore, Because of the racial rapport.
Whereas white male judges are, as everyone knows, totally neutral.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”