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.
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.