Beneath Contempt

 

To be brutally truthful with you, it's hard not to waste a lot of time thinking about Judge Clarence Thomas. I find it painfully ironic that only the second African American Justice in American history is the most blatantly corrupt member of that body - at least in my lifetime. What has always amused me more than anything about Judge Thomas is his positive revulsion against the very existence of Affirmative Action. I need to repeat something I wrote on this site over a decade ago. I need to repeat it here:

"According to Uncle Thomas in his recently published memoir, My Grandfather's Son, when he received his diploma from Yale Law School, he put a "fifteen cents" sticker on it and relegated it to the basement of his home. You see, Clarence Thomas believes that it was the very existence of affirmative action that made his law degree all-but-worthless. To his way of thinking, he would have been much better off had he just pursued his dream of becoming a lawyer only on the merits of his talent and abilities and not relied on the good intentions of all those evil, white, liberal, do-gooders. In his mind, his place on the Supreme Court would today be all-the-more significant and he would be sitting on that revered bench free of the guilty conscience that obviously torments him to this very day. His place in the halls of justice would have meant so much more had all of those silly and stupid Great Society types not interfered with his ambitions.

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Question: Just where do you think Clarence Thomas would be today had it not been for affirmative action?

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Answer: He would be mounted on the front lawn of some beer distributor's home in Albany, Georgia, wearing a jockey uniform and holding a lamp."

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Back in the 1960s, Justice Abe Fortes was force dto resign in disgrace when it was revealed that he had received $20,000 from a businessman. Thomas has been caught red-handed accepting private luxury transportation and vacations worth half a million dollars for himself and his wife, extreme right wing activist GinnyThomas. In recent years Thomas has ruled on cases involving his wife that he should have recused himself from. In one particularly glaring case, Thomas was only one of nine justices who voted in favor of Ginny's case. This is the worst example of judicial corruption that I am aware of in history.

Malcolm X had a term for black men like Clarence Thomas. He called them "House Niggers",  Black men who would pull up the ladder that they themselves took advantage of to prevent those of their own race from taking advantage of the societal programs that allowed those very same people from moving forward. 

He's beneath contempt.

Tom Degan

Goshen, NY

AFTERTHOUGHT: 4/18/23 - 

He needs to resign. This corrupt Uncle Tom can no longer be allowed to be passing judgement on the rest of us.