Nobody would suggest that in his hiring practices or in the way he lives Judge Alito is biased against women or minorities. but the Concerned Alumni of Princeton received national attention for resisting the admission of women and minorities--African Americans and others--into Princeton. Why brag about being part of such an organization? These same people only a generation earlier surely would have resisted the admission of people from Italian immigrant families. I take that rather personally. My mothers family were Italian immigrants. I still have relatives in Italy today. uncles. aunts. and cousins. who talk about how proud they are of their sons and daughters who have gone to America. I also think of a different era when my Irish father. as a teenager. had to face signs: "No Irish need apply" or "No Catholics need apply." As a result. we grew up in a family where we learned that all discrimination was wrong.
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