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He benefited from affirmative action but doesn't think it should exist.
As a Black man, I'm going to disagree with that. You see, the intent of affirmative action is to hire someone who's not only a woman or person of color, but who's also qualified.
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As a Black man, I'm going to disagree with that. You see, the intent of affirmative action is to hire someone who's not only a woman or person of color, but who's also qualified.
As a Black man, I'm going to disagree with that. You see, the intent of affirmative action is to hire someone who's not only a woman or person of color, but who's also qualified.
Thomas is hardly qualified.
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I was referring to his education and earlier jobs but since you mention it, that too.
An 'Uncle Tom' is a person who adopts the value opinions of his oppressor -- call it a political 'Stockholm syndrome', if you will. Clarence Thomas took in the opinions of the MO Republican who hired him out of Yale law and for the life a me I can't understand how other job options were not open to him, but I guess it is possible. After that (but not really before then) Clarence Thomas considered himself a Republican and he bought their views whole cloth. He is far different than Colin Powell or Michael Steele.
Black folks don't hate Clarence Thomas -- he is just, with good reason, considered an Uncle Tom. Since Associate Justice Thomas has gone out of his way to make political pronouncements, and eschewed the advice of older black jurists who tried to explain some things to him when he was appointed, he has sought that mantle and should not whine about wearing it.
In the words of Thurgood Marshall (quoting his father) about why folks should not just accept a person who happens to be of the same ethnicity (and why it was not mandatory that he be replaced by a black judge): "A black snake will bite you just like a white one."
As a Black man, I'm going to disagree with that. You see, the intent of affirmative action is to hire someone who's not only a woman or person of color, but who's also qualified.
I can't figure this out. it seems a lot of blacks can't stand him, and label him an uncle tom. anyone know why this is?
Because most blacks are liberals (vote Democratic) and Thomas is one of the most conservative judges on the Supreme Court and leans Republican.
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