The flip side of being a minority

A lot of people are making a big deal about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's "Latina woman" comments. But this Slate column points out the difficulties minorities can often have, not negatively for being minorities, but negatively for having to represent and speak for minorities once they are successful.

In the effort to even the playing field, minorities get elevated into awkward positions. They have to answer questions others wouldn't (including questions other minority groups wouldn't necessarily get). Simply put, when there are discrepancies, and moves are made to even out the discrepancies, often the discrepancies are only magnified more, creating...you guessed it, more discrepancies.