Clarence Thomas-Enemy to Blacks, And all of America

[IM2]

Clarence Thomas is a sellout. And the only people who support him are enemies of equal opportunity and of American democracy. His wife is an insurrectionist, and so by extension that makes him one. And yet he sits on the Supreme Court. He took the place of Thurgood Marshall. And Marshall is turning around in his grave like he's on a rotisserie because of the choice the first Bush made.

Thurgood Marshall

Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Marshall was a prominent figure in the movement to end racial segregation in American public schools. He won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court, culminating in the Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which rejected the separate but equal doctrine and held segregation in public education to be unconstitutional. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court in 1967. A staunch liberal, he frequently dissented as the Court became increasingly conservative.

Thurgood Marshall - Wikipedia

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court and has been its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Since Stephen Breyer's retirement in 2022, he is also the Court's oldest member.

Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell. Upon graduating, he was appointed as an assistant attorney general in Missouri and later entered private practice there. He became a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator John Danforth in 1979, and was made Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education in 1981. President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) the next year.

Clarence Thomas - Wikipedia

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Compare the resumes of these 2 men and it is apparent that Thomas should NEVER have been put in to replace a legendary legal mind such as Marshall.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/politics/clarence-thomas-black-people-blake-cec/index.html

 

[BackAgain]

Hey little im.2. Why another thread by you on the very same topic, you idiot?

Anyway, here’s a rebuttal of your valueless shit. Again.

Just to clarify: Justice Thomas is a black hero and an American hero

To claim that Justice Thomas is anything less than a hero to America and to the cause of black people in America is simply racial bigotry. He is a serious scholar. He is a wise and prudent jurist. He inherently fair. He may be one of the best Justices our SCOTUS has ever had. He doesn’t buy...

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[BluesLegend]

Clarence Thomas-Enemy to Blacks, And all of America​

Thank God Clarence Thomas is helping to free Dem slaves from Dem inner city plantations.

 

[BackAgain]

Thank God Clarence Thomas is helping to free Dem slaves from Dem inner city plantations.

Amen.

 

[wihosa]

Clarence Thomas is ethically rudderless, ideologically extreme and purposefully or inadvertently a tool of the white supremacist/neoconfederate/anti-democratic fascism represented by Trump and MAGA

 

[IM2]

IM2 thinks he speaks for all blacks. He thinks anyone who is successful on his/her own is no longer black. They are "sellouts".

He has no room for any black person who actually thinks for himself. And if you are white and don't agree with him you are automatically a racist.

I speak for blacks more than your ass does and you only think that uncle toms who regurgitate white racist views about blacks are independent thinkers. Thomas is not thinking for himself, those who oppose him are. And if you are white and posting racist bs, that's what you will be called.

 

[IM2]

Your other thread got shut down. But, you are determined to post your racist comments anyway.

You trolls try getting my threads closed. And nothing I have said here or anywhere is racist. If what I said was so terribly racist, then whites other than right wing extremists would be calling it out.

 

[IM2]

Thank God Clarence Thomas is helping to free Dem slaves from Dem inner city plantations.

Clarence Thomas can't free himself. There are no plantations in existence today. If there are then stop opposing reparations.

 

[Meister]

You trolls try getting my threads closed. And nothing I have said here or anywhere is racist. If what I said was so terribly racist, then whites other than right wing extremists would be calling it out.

I know, I know, it isn't about racism, but about a black scholar that's a Justice to the Supreme Court and is a conservative.
The nerve of him.

 

[IM2]

I know, I know, it isn't about racism, but about a black scholar that's a Justice to the Supreme Court and is a conservative.

Don't talk about what's not racism racist. You are another racist who only supports Thomas because he says what you want to hear about blacks. Kitanje Brown-Jackson is a scholar that is a Justice to the Supreme court and your punk ass dissed her as some kind of AA appointment as if she was not qualified.

The Clarence Thomas myth that refuses to die​

It’s the horror movie villain that won’t die, the pop song you can’t get out of your head, the out-of-town guest that just won’t leave.

It’s a belief that’s stuck like a tick in the collective memory of some white conservatives.

It’s the notion that black people despise Clarence Thomas because he’s a conservative.

It’s not only a myth but a con.

Thomas isn’t despised in the black community because he’s a conservative. Many dislike him because they see him as a hypocrite and a traitor.

Yet many white conservatives keep recycling the same selective stories about Thomas. These stories don’t just distort black culture – they carry an undercurrent of racism.

He’s not the only black leader who talks about self-reliance

But the way some white conservatives tell the story of Thomas’ rise from poverty also perpetuates racist stereotypes. They imply that Thomas and his hard working, no excuses grandfather are unusual characters in the black community. They depict Thomas as this lonely apostle of self-reliance, as if most black people prefer sitting on the couch drinking Kool-Aid while waiting for the government to send them a check.

Here’s some news: Black people have been practicing self-reliance for centuries. We’ve had to, for survival. We know through bitter experience that white America’s investment in racial equality is sporadic. Racial progress has always been followed by a “whitelash.”
Thomas’ stern grandfather is a familiar figure in the black community. Plenty of black people can tell you stories of grandparents, pastors, teachers, and coaches who all preached the same message: Rely on yourself, because you can’t rely on white people.

It’s almost impossible to find a revered black leader who didn’t preach some form of this message.

He cast an ‘atrocious’ vote against black America​

There’s something else many white conservatives miss: The contradiction between Thomas’ words and actions.

Thomas has lectured blacks about not defining themselves as racial victims. He once criticized civil rights leaders who he said, “B*tch, b*tch, b*tch, moan and moan and whine” about the Reagan administration.

But when his nomination to the Supreme Court was threatened by Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment, he played the race card by saying he was the victim of a “high-tech lynching.”

Thomas has lectured blacks about the evils of affirmative action. Yet he made it into Yale Law School because of an affirmative action program.

“His entire career is a result of thrusts for diversity that he would deny in others,”
-Lawrence Goldstone, author of “On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

But it’s Thomas’ voting record that has cemented the cynicism many blacks feel toward him.

Critics say he has consistently voted against black people as well as other marginalized groups: women, LGBTQ people, religious minorities and death row inmates.

He is the first Supreme Court justice to openly criticize the high court’s landmark civil rights ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.

And he joined a 2013 high court decision – Shelby County v. Holder – that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.

Here is Thomas providing a crucial vote to cripple legislation for which the proponents of racial justice marched, bled, and in some instances died.
-Randall Kennedy, author and law professor

His vote on Shelby contributed to “the most unjustifiable and hurtful decision imposed on black America in the past half century,” Randall Kennedy, an author and professor at Harvard Law School, wrote in a recent article on Thomas.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/us/clarence-thomas-white-conservatives-blake/index.html

You support Thomas because he has done all these things then you try talking about how it's not because of racism. STHU.

 

[IM2]

Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being​

Thomas has elevated “personal responsibility” into a prerequisite for citizenship. Yet he fails his own test.​

For four decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has extolled the importance of “personal responsibility.” He has chastised those who “make excuses for black Americans” and argued there is a need to “emphasize black self-help.” He has denigrated affirmative action programs on the grounds that they “create a narcotic of dependency” where there should be “an ethic of responsibility and independence.” He bemoans the “ideology of victimhood” that allows the marginalized to “make demands on society for reparations and recompense.”

In light of recent revelations that Thomas has been showered by billionaire Harlan Crow with over two decades’ worth of getaways on superyachts and private jets and various other gifts, none of which he ever reported, the jurist’s long con of principled advocacy for Black self-reliance and opposition to white largesse has finally run its course. Turns out, Thomas was never against reparations—he just wanted them for himself. He is and always has been precisely what he wrongly accuses Black folks of being.

It’s been a con run by a self-serving fabulist all along. In 1980, Thomas caught the attention of the incoming president, Ronald Reagan, with a speech in which he used the “welfare queen” stereotype against his own sister. “She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check. That is how dependent she is,” Thomas told an audience of fellow Black Republicans. “What’s worse is that now her kids feel entitled to the check too. They have no motivation for doing better or getting out of that situation.” A 1991 Los Angeles Times investigation found Thomas’s sister was, in fact, an underpaid single mother who used the social safety net during a brief rough patch; her children weren’t the entitled layabouts depicted by Thomas, either.

A few years later, while serving as the second-highest-ranking Black official in the Reagan administration, Thomas observed that “to be accepted into the conservative ranks and to be treated with some degree of respect, a black was required to become a caricature of sorts, providing sideshows of anti-black quips and attacks,” adding that Black conservatives “must be against affirmative action and against welfare. And your opposition had to be adamant and constant.” Forty years later, it’s hard not to think Thomas wasn’t so much airing grievances as reassuring his white conservative compatriots that he understood the assignment.

Consider that there may be no single person in American history who has benefited more from affirmative action than Clarence Thomas. It is an oft-repeated fact that Thomas got into Yale Law School based on race-conscious admissions. Claiming he was “humiliated” by possessing a law degree that “bore the taint of racial preference,” he went on to become a prominent opponent of affirmative action—even suggesting that race-based policies represented the new slavery or Jim Crow, but for white people. Nonetheless, Thomas continued to benefit from his race long after his days at Yale.

And while Thomas castigates Black folks for blaming their problems on racism, he seems to carry a full deck of race cards everywhere he goes. He insists that all public criticisms of him are the result of his status as a Black conservative who refuses to “follow in this cult-like way something that Blacks are supposed to believe.” For a party of people who constantly accuse Black folks of being “race grifters,” white Republicans seem loath to recognize those in their midst, doing their bidding.

Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being

Thomas has elevated “personal responsibility” into a prerequisite for citizenship. Yet he fails his own test.

www.thenation.com

 

[IM2]

The right wing white push of black sellouts involves people like Thomas who could erase the problem of systemic racism but won't because he would lose his status. Because he is in a position to do this, but he does everything in his power to continue it, Thomas is one reason that white racism continues.

 

[IM2]

Clarence Thomas is a sellout who has decided to sell his soul for any opportunity to have power and while doing so he has shit on people who look like him and has worked to deny them of the very things that has allowed him to get to where he is today. That's indefensible and no one should be defending or supporting a person like that.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Will you be ending his threat on your own or as part of a group?

 

[IM2]

Will you be ending his threat on your own or as part of a group?

Thomas is ending himself by his unethical behavior. You racists have allowed his behavior because he was doing your bidding for you relative to erasing gains from the Civil Rights Movement.

 

[BluesLegend]

In Trump's 2nd term we will nominate more black conservative justices to the SCOTUS!! It's time to put a stop to Dem institutionalized slavery.

 

[Meister]

Don't talk about what's not racism racist. You are another racist who only supports Thomas because he says what you want to hear about blacks. Kitanje Brown-Jackson is a scholar that is a Justice to the Supreme court and your punk ass dissed her as some kind of AA appointment as if she was not qualified.

The Clarence Thomas myth that refuses to die​

It’s the horror movie villain that won’t die, the pop song you can’t get out of your head, the out-of-town guest that just won’t leave.

It’s a belief that’s stuck like a tick in the collective memory of some white conservatives.

It’s the notion that black people despise Clarence Thomas because he’s a conservative.

It’s not only a myth but a con.

Thomas isn’t despised in the black community because he’s a conservative. Many dislike him because they see him as a hypocrite and a traitor.

Yet many white conservatives keep recycling the same selective stories about Thomas. These stories don’t just distort black culture – they carry an undercurrent of racism.

He’s not the only black leader who talks about self-reliance

But the way some white conservatives tell the story of Thomas’ rise from poverty also perpetuates racist stereotypes. They imply that Thomas and his hard working, no excuses grandfather are unusual characters in the black community. They depict Thomas as this lonely apostle of self-reliance, as if most black people prefer sitting on the couch drinking Kool-Aid while waiting for the government to send them a check.

Here’s some news: Black people have been practicing self-reliance for centuries. We’ve had to, for survival. We know through bitter experience that white America’s investment in racial equality is sporadic. Racial progress has always been followed by a “whitelash.”
Thomas’ stern grandfather is a familiar figure in the black community. Plenty of black people can tell you stories of grandparents, pastors, teachers, and coaches who all preached the same message: Rely on yourself, because you can’t rely on white people.

It’s almost impossible to find a revered black leader who didn’t preach some form of this message.

He cast an ‘atrocious’ vote against black America​

There’s something else many white conservatives miss: The contradiction between Thomas’ words and actions.

Thomas has lectured blacks about not defining themselves as racial victims. He once criticized civil rights leaders who he said, “B*tch, b*tch, b*tch, moan and moan and whine” about the Reagan administration.

But when his nomination to the Supreme Court was threatened by Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment, he played the race card by saying he was the victim of a “high-tech lynching.”

Thomas has lectured blacks about the evils of affirmative action. Yet he made it into Yale Law School because of an affirmative action program.

“His entire career is a result of thrusts for diversity that he would deny in others,”
-Lawrence Goldstone, author of “On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

But it’s Thomas’ voting record that has cemented the cynicism many blacks feel toward him.

Critics say he has consistently voted against black people as well as other marginalized groups: women, LGBTQ people, religious minorities and death row inmates.

He is the first Supreme Court justice to openly criticize the high court’s landmark civil rights ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.

And he joined a 2013 high court decision – Shelby County v. Holder – that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.

Here is Thomas providing a crucial vote to cripple legislation for which the proponents of racial justice marched, bled, and in some instances died.
-Randall Kennedy, author and law professor

His vote on Shelby contributed to “the most unjustifiable and hurtful decision imposed on black America in the past half century,” Randall Kennedy, an author and professor at Harvard Law School, wrote in a recent article on Thomas.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/us/clarence-thomas-white-conservatives-blake/index.html

You support Thomas because he has done all these things then you try talking about how it's not because of racism. STHU.

You talk about Thomas because he's black and a conservative. It is you who is a racist, IM2.

 

[IM2]

Pay no attention to Dem uncle Toms my black brothers and sisters. Soon Trump returns and we'll begin freeing Dem slaves from the Dem inner city plantations and poverty again!

Trump will not be returning. There are no more plantations. Biden/Harris has created lower black unemployment and higher black wages than Trump did. So did Obama/Biden. And you gave credit for what Obama/Biden did to Trump. So notice that the two lowest levels of black unemployment have Bidens name associated with it.

 

[skye]

Bless Judge Thomas!

 

[IM2]

You talk about Thomas because he's black and a conservative. It is you who is a racist, IM2.

Your argument is stupid. I cannot declare myself racially superior to another black person when I am black. So stop re-creating the definition of racism because I oppose the black puppet you love because he has worked to reinstate white supremacy.

I have shown you why I talk about Thomas in terms of policy moron. Had I created a thread denigrating Al Sharpton you would be in total agreement, and I would be the most loved negro at USMB.