1.Some time back, Jeffrey Toobin, CNN network's chief legal analyst, wrote a long piece for the New Yorker, clarifying Justice Clarence Thomas’s leadership in the Supreme Court. It included this:
“In several of the most important areas of constitutional law, Thomas has emerged as an intellectual leader of the Supreme Court. Since the arrival of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in 2005, and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., in 2006, the Court has moved to the right when it comes to the free-speech rights of corporations, the rights of gun owners, and, potentially, the powers of the federal government; in each of these areas, the majority has followed where Thomas has been leading for a decade or more. Rarely has a Supreme Court Justice enjoyed such broad or significant vindication”
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2. How has this great man, and great mind, been welcomed in Democrat black communities?
Numerous invitations for Thomas to speak at commencements have been withdrawn.
"Open Letter Concerning the Invitation to Justice Clarence ...
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu › fac_pm
by DE Wilkes Jr · 2003 — The decision to invite Justice Thomas is appalling, unwise and perverse -- the embodiment of bad judgment. Anyone who has carefully examined his opinions in the ...
At U. of Georgia, Furor Over Clarence Thomas - Inside Higher ...
https://www.insidehighered.com › news › 2008/04/23
Apr 23, 2008 — Now some faculty members say that having Thomas as the undergraduate commencement speaker sends the wrong message at a time when the university ...
“…officials in Prince George's County invited, disinvited, then reinvited Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at a school ceremony. Last year, the Maryland NAACP protested and derailed a speech Thomas was to give at a youth festival. And now some members of the nation's largest organization of black lawyers are trying to withdraw an invitation to the Supreme Court's only African American justice.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...er-flap/a4f19dfb-1342-4870-b2a1-ea1dceb81f4e/
3. It is difficult to conceive of the pressure successful, brave black Americans must suffer if they accommodate to a mostly white nation, and are successful in it.
“Much of the Black identity is measured by other Blacks in how they interact with Whites. The power of Uncle Tom is alive and well. This nineteenth-century literary caricature continues to prevent many Blacks from embracing few aspects of White culture.
Today, Uncle Tom is the mechanism that groups independent thinkers like Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas into the lexicon of house Negroes and sellouts. Any Black who finds personal success through the back channels of White culture understands the risks of being too aligned with the master.
Sadly, the small percentage of Blacks who find cultural, emotional, and political alignment with traditional Whites must watch their backs from every angle. These Americans still encounter pockets of ignorant Whites while also being shunned by much of their own race.” “An American Divorce,” JN Welch.
What is the source of that pressure to keep black Americans on the plantation?
The Democrat Party.
“In several of the most important areas of constitutional law, Thomas has emerged as an intellectual leader of the Supreme Court. Since the arrival of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in 2005, and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., in 2006, the Court has moved to the right when it comes to the free-speech rights of corporations, the rights of gun owners, and, potentially, the powers of the federal government; in each of these areas, the majority has followed where Thomas has been leading for a decade or more. Rarely has a Supreme Court Justice enjoyed such broad or significant vindication”
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2. How has this great man, and great mind, been welcomed in Democrat black communities?
Numerous invitations for Thomas to speak at commencements have been withdrawn.
"Open Letter Concerning the Invitation to Justice Clarence ...
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu › fac_pm
by DE Wilkes Jr · 2003 — The decision to invite Justice Thomas is appalling, unwise and perverse -- the embodiment of bad judgment. Anyone who has carefully examined his opinions in the ...
At U. of Georgia, Furor Over Clarence Thomas - Inside Higher ...
https://www.insidehighered.com › news › 2008/04/23
Apr 23, 2008 — Now some faculty members say that having Thomas as the undergraduate commencement speaker sends the wrong message at a time when the university ...
“…officials in Prince George's County invited, disinvited, then reinvited Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at a school ceremony. Last year, the Maryland NAACP protested and derailed a speech Thomas was to give at a youth festival. And now some members of the nation's largest organization of black lawyers are trying to withdraw an invitation to the Supreme Court's only African American justice.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...er-flap/a4f19dfb-1342-4870-b2a1-ea1dceb81f4e/
3. It is difficult to conceive of the pressure successful, brave black Americans must suffer if they accommodate to a mostly white nation, and are successful in it.
“Much of the Black identity is measured by other Blacks in how they interact with Whites. The power of Uncle Tom is alive and well. This nineteenth-century literary caricature continues to prevent many Blacks from embracing few aspects of White culture.
Today, Uncle Tom is the mechanism that groups independent thinkers like Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas into the lexicon of house Negroes and sellouts. Any Black who finds personal success through the back channels of White culture understands the risks of being too aligned with the master.
Sadly, the small percentage of Blacks who find cultural, emotional, and political alignment with traditional Whites must watch their backs from every angle. These Americans still encounter pockets of ignorant Whites while also being shunned by much of their own race.” “An American Divorce,” JN Welch.
What is the source of that pressure to keep black Americans on the plantation?
The Democrat Party.