Four years before his Supreme Court nomination, Clarence Thomas gave an interview with Juan Williams. Thomas said “There is nothing you can do to get past black skin. I don’t care how educated you are, how good you are at what you do – you’ll never … be seen as equal to whites.” The best interpretation of this is that Thomas feels the law is not going to save Black people from white people. Blacks, in Thomas’ view, should be self reliant. He voted to gut the Civil Rights Act and wanted Alabama to continue to rig the voting system against Blacks. The message, the “white” law is not your friend.
Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harassment. He had no problem using the so-called race card to divert attention from the accusation. Clarence Thomas has no problem accepting gifts from Harlan Crow. He has no problem not recusing from cases that involve issues supported by his wife. He is the living embodiment of “rules for thee, but not for me”
Clarence Thomas is a super meritorious manumission negro. Under meritorious manumission social policies, black slaves were rewarded with freedom for informing whites about black rebellions and escapes. Some were memorialized with plaques and monuments. One informed on the hiding of abolitionist John Brown, which led to his capture and hanging. I'm aware of these comments that Clarence Thomas made to Juan Williams. From what I have researched about Thomas, he's very angry, vengeful, contradictory, and self-loathing. Light-skinned black people reportedly teased him during his early years about his pronounced black physical features. After obtaining his law degree from Yale, he got frustrated with trying to find employment, believing that he earned the degree based on affirmative action. The other black Yale law school graduates didn't feel this way. Thomas was taken under the wing of a white conservative politician from Missouri and groomed for meritorious manumission. Interesting is the fact that Thomas speaks highly of his grandfather who was involved with the NAACP and abused him. Thomas is on the record for making scathing comments about the NAACP. Thomas appears to have unresolved psychological issues regarding race.
Clarence Thomas, aka “America’s Blackest Child”, aka ABC is indeed interesting. You can view him as being akin to Malcolm X, who felt white society would never create laws or political parties that truly benefited Black people. On the other hand, Thomas could be viewed as a self-hating Black man as described in Frank Fanon’s “Blacks Skin, White Masks”. At the end of the day, you have Clarence Thomas the most rightwing member of the Supreme Court.
John Danforth, then the Republican Senator from Missouri found employment for Thomas. From Thomas’ autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son”: “I learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much anyone denied it,” Thomas writes. “I’d graduated from one of America’s top law schools, but racial preference had robbed my achievement of its true value.”
Thomas was one of about 10 Black students in a Yale Law class of about 160. Thomas seems to have been the runt of the litter. The runt is complaining about being undervalued. Does Thomas realize that he is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States?
Graduates from Yale. He says he had good grades, but still could not get a job. A United States Senator gets him a job. Thomas sits on the Supreme Court, a lifetime appointment. He is still bitter. Black Conservative George Schuyler wrote “Black No More” in 1931. The main character in the novel goes to a for profit clinic that transforms Black people into white people. After the conversation, the character works with white supremacists to label Black people the major problem in the country. Clarence Thomas would love some “Black No More” treatment.
Four years before his Supreme Court nomination, Clarence Thomas gave an interview with Juan Williams. Thomas said “There is nothing you can do to get past black skin. I don’t care how educated you are, how good you are at what you do – you’ll never … be seen as equal to whites.” The best interpretation of this is that Thomas feels the law is not going to save Black people from white people. Blacks, in Thomas’ view, should be self reliant. He voted to gut the Civil Rights Act and wanted Alabama to continue to rig the voting system against Blacks. The message, the “white” law is not your friend.
Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harassment. He had no problem using the so-called race card to divert attention from the accusation. Clarence Thomas has no problem accepting gifts from Harlan Crow. He has no problem not recusing from cases that involve issues supported by his wife. He is the living embodiment of “rules for thee, but not for me”
Clarence Thomas is a super meritorious manumission negro. Under meritorious manumission social policies, black slaves were rewarded with freedom for informing whites about black rebellions and escapes. Some were memorialized with plaques and monuments. One informed on the hiding of abolitionist John Brown, which led to his capture and hanging. I'm aware of these comments that Clarence Thomas made to Juan Williams. From what I have researched about Thomas, he's very angry, vengeful, contradictory, and self-loathing. Light-skinned black people reportedly teased him during his early years about his pronounced black physical features. After obtaining his law degree from Yale, he got frustrated with trying to find employment, believing that he earned the degree based on affirmative action. The other black Yale law school graduates didn't feel this way. Thomas was taken under the wing of a white conservative politician from Missouri and groomed for meritorious manumission. Interesting is the fact that Thomas speaks highly of his grandfather who was involved with the NAACP and abused him. Thomas is on the record for making scathing comments about the NAACP. Thomas appears to have unresolved psychological issues regarding race.
Clarence Thomas, aka “America’s Blackest Child”, aka ABC is indeed interesting. You can view him as being akin to Malcolm X, who felt white society would never create laws or political parties that truly benefited Black people. On the other hand, Thomas could be viewed as a self-hating Black man as described in Frank Fanon’s “Blacks Skin, White Masks”. At the end of the day, you have Clarence Thomas the most rightwing member of the Supreme Court.
John Danforth, then the Republican Senator from Missouri found employment for Thomas. From Thomas’ autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son”: “I learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much anyone denied it,” Thomas writes. “I’d graduated from one of America’s top law schools, but racial preference had robbed my achievement of its true value.”
Thomas was one of about 10 Black students in a Yale Law class of about 160. Thomas seems to have been the runt of the litter. The runt is complaining about being undervalued. Does Thomas realize that he is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States?
Graduates from Yale. He says he had good grades, but still could not get a job. A United States Senator gets him a job. Thomas sits on the Supreme Court, a lifetime appointment. He is still bitter. Black Conservative George Schuyler wrote “Black No More” in 1931. The main character in the novel goes to a for profit clinic that transforms Black people into white people. After the conversation, the character works with white supremacists to label Black people the major problem in the country. Clarence Thomas would love some “Black No More” treatment.