Affirmative Clarence

In a 6-3 vote today, the Supreme Court killed affirmative action for college admissions. Naturally, Justice Clarence Thomas who wouldn’t be on the Supreme Court today if it wasn’t for affirmative action helping him get into Yale, was on the side that ended affirmative action.

Thomas criticized Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in his concurring opinion (Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion). Thomas wrote, “As she sees things, we are all inexorably trapped in a fundamentally racist society, with the original sin of slavery and the historical subjugation of Black Americans still determining our lives today.”

If that is the way she sees it, she’s right. Clarence Thomas can’t see it when he’s on luxury vacations financed by billionaire white guys who wouldn’t allow him to use their indoor plumbing if he wasn’t a Supreme Court justice. With Jackson on the court, Thomas finally has someone on the court who he can unleash his hatred of black people on.

And white people love to quote Martin Luther King to justify their discrimination except affirmative action doesn’t judge people by the color of their skin or discriminate against white people. It’s giving black people a level playing field. Most universities still have majority-white enrollment.

In California where voters removed affirmative action for college admissions over 30 years ago, black enrollment is just now starting to get back to where it was in the 1990s. At the University of California, Black and Hispanic enrollment dropped by more than 50 percent.

Thomas also expressed his anger at black people being portrayed as victims, writing, “This lore is not and has never been true. Even in the segregated South where I grew up, individuals were not the sum of their skin color.” It’s like he didn’t grow up in the South. His concurring opinion seemed less about affirmative action and more about his hatred of black people.

Clarence Thomas has become racist Whites’ best black friend. He has done their bidding over the past 30 years and gives strength to their arguments, as though Whites are the victims.

It’s strange that Thomas cast his anger at the “lore” of Blacks being victims, while he works and parties with Whites who constantly argue they’re the most victimized people in world history. Look at Donald Trump, who his wife helped try to steal the 2020 election.

Justice Thomas is against Blacks getting a leg up in education, except in the case of his nephew’s expensive prep school education, which his rich White billionaire benefactor has paid for.

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