– Susan B. Anthony started her efforts in reform with the abolition of slavery, 1849. Once she realized women could not be effective reformers without the right to vote, she became the noted women's rights and suffragist we teach our children about. She died 14 years, 5 months and 5 days before passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, 1920.

– 50 years after she went to her friend, Frederick Douglass, to ask for his support including a woman's right to vote along with black males in the 15th Amendment, 1870. It was not the time for universal suffrage over their momentum, he felt.

– 2 years later, Anthony was arrested and convicted for voting, while Douglass' bank failed, 1872.

– 14 years later, the National Woman Suffrage Association annual convention praises Wyoming as the first state to give women the vote, while Douglass marries his second wife, a white woman, 1884.

If indeed, as you say (and I agree), "the law is about thinking, not feeling", let us consider Judge Sotomayor's perspective (as evidenced in her controversial statement), and Joe's here. Clearly some feel a moral superiority based on their personal experiences of a society, a culture, a system "keeping them down". But justice in America – in order for the branches of government to work as they should – should be "blind justice", not "social justice" where prior wrongs suffered are factored in to the result. That being the case, ideal candidates for judgeships would likely be those who bear no grudges against the society, the culture, the system; those least likely to factor these elements into their decisions…

Therefore, the best judges would be drawn from the pool of… white males?

"LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO DISPENSE CHEAP JUSTICE"