Madison darbous

Thomas Merton said, "In an age where there is much talk about 'being yourself' I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. Rather it seems to me that when one is too intent on 'being himself' he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow." Analyze how both articles prove this to be either accurate or inaccurate. In the article “Sonia Sotomayor, outsider”, The statement is made that “In a paradoxical and unironic way, there is probably nobody at the court more interested in what it must have been like to grow up a privileged white male than Sonia Sotomayor.” This statement is the exact opposite of what Thomas Merton states. Instead of talking about the good that has happened in the life of Mrs. Sotomayor, they have to play her life off like she was discriminated against and was constantly wondering what was entailed in the life of “privileged white males”. Instead of stating the quarter of a million dollars that she makes each year. No, they included the quote that states “I don’t think I am really given permission to make judgments based on just being a Latina, just being a woman.”. If she doesn’t think that she can make judgments on people, they why does she judge the white men of the world, calling them “privileged white males”? In reading the article, you find out that she was in a private school, went to Princeton as well as attended law school. I believe that she is purposely making herself out to be the outsider