On sidelines, Hispanics cheer Sotomayor - USATODAY.com: At the moment of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation as the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court, Carmen Garcia cried, hard.
She was one of several women at the FB Lounge in New York City's Spanish Harlem who saw in Sotomayor's life story a version of her own, or her parents'.
'All the obstacles she must have seen in the South Bronx, I saw in Spanish Harlem,' said Garcia, 58, a hospital food-service worker whose parents brought her to New York in 1957. 'Any child that looks outside the window to the fire escape and wants to become a judge, a lawyer, a district attorney, a Supreme Court (justice), and sees what Sotomayor used to see, can say, 'I can do it, too.' '
For many of the nation's Hispanics, Sotomayor's confirmation marked a proud milestone — an affirmation of their struggles and hard work, an inspiration for them and their children.
