Everyone growing up had a role model to look up too, but how would you feel if you noticed that every successful person in the news was of one race and it wasn’t yours? It discourage many Latin Americans never having someone of their own race to look up too. Some jobs became just a dream to some seeing that no one had ever achieved such a high level of success. But, when Sotomayor took the office it encouraged people by showing them that anyone can do anything. “- were all asking, ‘Are we dreaming?’ We all needed reassurance” (Hinojosa). Sotomayor broke though many stereotypes because not only was she the first Latina women to be in the supreme court, she was one a very view women who had made it all the way up the chain. Women are often seen
