Sotomaynia!

Thank you, national media.

Thank you for your vigilance in protecting me and my heavily under-represented and oppressed Caucasian brethren.

Thank you for taking a stand against the day-to-day "reverse racism" of which every white male in this country suffers.

Thank you for responsibly summing up Sonia Sotomayor's 40 years of legal experience with 2 comments which, if taken completely out of context, could almost - if I turned my brain off for just a few seconds - be construed as racist.

It's important to make sure that a Supreme Court nominee, when they're a Hispanic male appointed by a white male, is not questioned about their membership in an organization that called for capping female and minority university admissions, because that's going "too far." We might hurt their feelings.

But when a Hispanic female appointed by a black male makes a comment that points out she may be able to bring fresh perspective to a court that, until now, has produced 106 white males out of 110 total Supreme Court Justices, appointed by... hrm, let's see... all white male presidents? She may be a racist; we better make it the single biggest issue concerning her candidacy. Even the New York Times agrees.

Good job, national media. Let's send a message that comments like those recently made by Gordon Liddy hoping Sotomayor doesn't make any key decisions while menstruating, and that the Supreme Court "is not designed to be and should not be a representative body" are legitimate criticisms. Or Bill O'Reilly's rants against "putting women and minorities in power" shouldn't bother us for other reasons entirely. Let's not focus on former representative Tom Tancredo's statements that Sotomayor is part of the "Latina KKK" and doesn't know whether or not Obama hates white people, per Limbaugh's suggestion.

It's important to focus on the "new racism," as Newt Gingrich so eloquently puts it, against white males. All of this concern for white males couldn't be an indication that "old racism" and blatant sexism could still be very much alive in our society, on our televisions, in our newspapers, and all over our national media outlets.