racial preferences for admission to state colleges and universities. that happened in 2006. and by a a 8% margin of vote. of course, it was appealed to the supreme court which ruled this week 6 to 2 that the people of michigan have a constitutional right to say no to it affirmative action in education. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor is angry about the ruling. ms. sotomayor is a true american success story, raised by a single mother after her father died. she excelled at a catholic high school in the bronx and accepted to princeton university in 1972. while sonia was a very student, she believes affirmative action helped her. >> the affirmative action of today is very different than it was when i was going to school. and each school does it in a different way. but i do know that, for me, it was a door opener that changed the course of my life. >> ms. sotomayor fulfilled her part of the bargain.