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Justice Clarence Thomas was the grandson of a sharecropper. Yet the Left holds up younger privileged middle class activists like Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as truly representing the history of oppression.
In his opinion striking down affirmative action, Justice Thomas takes on the myth of racism and the attempt to create a systemically racial state. In attacking Brown’s dissent, he also takes on the fashionable 1619 Project style ideologies that define everything by race.
Jackson “would replace the second Founders’ vision with an organizing principle based on race. In fact, on her view, almost all of life’s outcomes may be unhesitatingly ascribed to race,” Thomas writes.
He exposes the emphasis on white people rather than black people, on resentment over achievement.
“Even if some whites have a lower household net worth than some blacks, what matters to JUSTICE JACKSON is that the average white household has more wealth than the average black household,” he points out.
“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. Then as now, not all disparities are based on race; not all people are racist; and not all differences between individuals are ascribable to race… Worse still, JUSTICE JACKSON uses her broad observations about statistical relationships between race and select measures of health, wealth, and well-being to label all blacks as victims. Her desire to do so is unfathomable to me.”
I can hardly do more than quote Thomas in an opinion that will be read for the ages.
“Such a view is irrational; it is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through barriers, rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood. If an applicant has less financial means (because of generational inheritance or otherwise), then surely a university may take that into account. If an applicant has medical struggles or a family member with medical concerns, a university may consider that too. What it cannot do is use the applicant’s skin color as a heuristic, assuming that because the applicant checks the box for “black” he therefore conforms to the university’s monolithic and reductionist view of an abstract, average black person.”
“Accordingly, JUSTICE JACKSON’s race-infused world view falls flat at each step. Individuals are the sum of their
unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they
choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives. A
contrary, myopic world view based on individuals’ skin color to the total exclusion of their personal choices is nothing
short of racial determinism.”
Instead of helping victims, racial categories are “a call to empower privileged elites, who will “tell us [what] is required to level the playing field” among castes and classifications that they alone can divine…. then, after siloing us all into racial castes and pitting those castes against each other, the dissent somehow believes that we will be able—at some undefined point—to “march forward together” into some utopian vision.”
Thomas further confronts the logic of Kendi’s anti-racism.
“If social reorganization in the name of equality may be justified by the mere fact of statistical disparities among racial groups, then that reorganization must continue until these disparities are fully eliminated, regardless of the reasons for the disparities and the cost of their elimination. If blacks fail a test at higher rates than their white counterparts (regardless of whether the reason for the disparity has anything at all to do with race), the only solution will be race-focused measures. If those measures were to result in blacks failing at yet higher rates, the only solution would be to double down. In fact, there would seem to be no logical limit to what the government may do to level the racial playing field—outright wealth transfers, quota systems, and racial preferences would all seem permissible. In such a system, it would not matter how many innocents suffer race-based injuries; all that would matter is reaching the race-based goal.”
Thomas envisions a perpetual cycle of racial victimhood that will just go on creating new victims.
“Nor is it clear what another few generations of race conscious college admissions may be expected to accomplish. Even today, affirmative action programs that offer an admissions boost to black and Hispanic students discriminate against those who identify themselves as members of other races that do not receive such preferential
treatment.”
“Must others in the future make sacrifices to relevel the playing field for this new phase of racial subordination? And then, out of whose lives should the debt owed to those further victims be repaid? This vision of meeting
social racism with government-imposed racism is thus self defeating, resulting in a never-ending cycle of victimization.”
“There is no reason to continue down that path. In the wake of the Civil War, the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment charted a way out: a colorblind Constitution that requires the government to, at long last, put aside its citizens’ skin color and focus on their individual achievements.”
These are a few sections of a comprehensive and voluminous opinion whose assertions are scholarly, impassionate and undeniable.
America is lucky to have Justice Thomas. We so little deserve him.
How cruel. How rational. How unemotional. He’s only taking into account the cold equations.
If he only had compassion, pity, and altruism in his soul!
He does. By upholding the Constitution, he also attempted to alleviate the persecution of whites and Asians and strip blacks of their false victimhood mentality.
He doesn’t seem to understand that the world is a mixture of good and bad. Altruism is sometimes good, sometimes bad. Or most any good thing carried to extremes can be a bad thing.
Yes, you know what they say” “too much of a good thing….”
Whoever down voted me “sucks the sweat off a dead man’s balls.”
You actually don’t know the meaning of altruism but the philosophers of altruism, Kant, Hegel, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and John Rawls do.
It is their definition that matters, not your mistaken understanding of what altruism actually means. Because it is their definition that is taught at the universities to future leaders like Obama, Hillary, AOC, etc.
In fact, it is to the advantage of the socialist, fascist, and the communist that people misunderstand altruism for kindness, generosity, and benevolence. Just as it is to the advantage of a conman to deceive you into surrendering your life savings to him as an act of virtue.
He obviously understands a lot more than you do.
Discrimination based on race was wrong when Blacks were the victims, and it is wrong when Whites and Asians are the victims today.
There is nothing crueler than Democrat compassion, especially to the people they are being “compassionate” to.
My irony may have been lost on you but not on Jeff.
Now that’s funny! ‘I don’t care who you are.
He does. It’s called Christianity.
Your dead prophetess lied. So do you. We are not saved by good works. Christ did all the work for us on Calvary’s cross. Don’t tell us what we believe. Ephesians 2: 8-9.
I’m afraid the down votes do not understand your irony.
He is compassionate. Treating people as individuals is more compassionate than looking down on them as if they aren’t as capable because of skin color. Seeing people as individuals is more compassionate than punishing some people because they aren’t the right color.
I had a good laugh. We both know Judge Thomas is a very compassionate, logical mind. Pity is for fools.
I notice Thomas’s official Opinion is actually all facts.
I will point out that social racism is about 98% anti-white but he is 100% right that meeting social racism with government imposed racism is self defeating and results in a never ending cycle of victimization. It’s what the woke retards call “anti-racism.”
Thomas is a great writer with a great mind. He’s not as poetic as Lincoln was but he gets right to the point and doesn’t waste words. He’s by far the best Justice of my lifetime. Conservatives used to adore Scalia, and I liked him too, but he made some bad decisions. I went over Thomas’s decisions and every single one of them has been correct and upheld the Constitution.
You’re right. America is lucky to have Thomas and we don’t deserve him. Our colleges, universities, government, voters and various activists prove that.
Yeah, intellectually rigorous. And smart as heck. Some of my best math teachers were black, of the Southern Gentleman type. They also had a lot more common sense than I did 🙂
Don’t be too hard on yourself! Teenagers aren’t known for their common sense. 😛
lol … that’s for sure 🙂
I’m glad we have Justice Thomas, he is that needle in a haystack. If Joe Biden had had his way we would not have had Thomas, the democrats did everything they could to deny him a seat on the Supreme Court, Biden was quite open about his racism back then.
Ketanji is unable to define “woman.” And was confirmed.
Clarence Thomas was unable cause the faintest beam of reason to enter her thick, stupid racist skull. She has been exalted to the highest court in the land – a permanent position of honor, yet she still embraces “resentment over achievement.” Perhaps this is because affirmative action ALONE could have put her there, and deep down, she knows it.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson may not know what a “woman” is, but she sure as heck recognizes a “racist,” even in the abstract. Funny, since both a woman and a racist grin at her every day from the mirror.
Ketanji Brown Jackass knows what a woman is, she just refused to admit it because she forseees cases concerning trannies and she obviously plans to vote for special privileges for trannies in an attempt to codify tranny tyranny into law. The wretched liar is married, so she knows damned well the difference between a penis and a vagina.
Ironically, she’s an anti white, black supremacist married to a white man. What a whacko. And of course we all know, including her, Affirmative action put her there. Alzheimer Joe flat out said (read) that he was going to nominate a black woman, under orders from his diabolical handlers.
Thomas is a treasure but Ketanji is a bane, and she’s the youngest justice so we’ll likely be stuck with her for the duration of our lifetimes. Yay.
Ketanji exemplifies the irrationality of many black racists. Their argument now is, ironically, that affirmative action is necessary for the advancement of POC. “We cannot succeed without racial preferences!” How is this not an admission of inferiority?
The other aspect is one I see constantly – envy. It is summed up like this: “I hate you! Don’t ever leave me!” The strong preference of many blacks to have white romance and marriage while hating whites in general confirms envy. They wish to become the very thing they envy and their inter-racial relationships, marriages and children move the goalposts a little closer. It also explains the huge popularity of blue-colored contact lenses, hair straighteners and the bleached blondes among them. They don’t really believe that “black is beautiful.”
Clarence Thomas is married to a white woman. At one point in his early years, he bought into the Black Panther mentality after experiencing an ugly racist comment from an insufferable white man. Being westernkind and using his own brain, he realized how bereft of reason and goodness these black racists were. His political choices led him to meet his white wife. Her white skin color was, at first, an impediment to him, but they were obviously meant for one another and have a happy marriage.
I saw a good biography of Clarence Thomas on Newsmax. It detailed how he was once a black power supremacist and anti-white racist (the two are always (concomitant) but saw the light and overcame his condition, as you wrote.
Combine white guilt with black rage and what do you get? A foot fetish.
Well, she’s a racist. Her first and last question in deciding any case involving race is what outcome will benefit black people. Simply result-oriented and ideological to the core.
The only explanation is either evil intent (racism) or stupidity. Maybe a bit of both. God help us.
Very many people in our federal and state governments are the same way. Racists and racism are deeply embedded in our government ranks and its policies. America is damaged beyond repair, in my opinion.
You maybe more damaged than the USA is.
Indeed, put his head in a furnace and his feet in a block of ice and the average American will just fine.
Ooops. FEEL just fine.
“America is lucky to have Justice Thomas. We so little deserve him.” Hear, hear Mr. Greenfield!
And how lucky we are that the bilious bigot Biden did not succeed, so many years ago, as he led the Senate Judiciary committee’s high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas.
As Obama’s preacher loved to say: The chickens are coming home to roost. And Thomas stands as America’s finest jurist while his oppressor, Biden, is months away from being run out of Washington.
I pray we lose Obiden soon!!
Justice Thomas has always had a balanced nature. He looks out for the rights of all people and not based on their ethnicity, he doesn’t single out any groups. The left wants to get rid of balanced judges who promote law, order, the constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and a balance and fairness for society. The real racists want to divide people based on color, they are the creators of anti-semetism and prejudice.
This is because Clarence Thomas is westernkind. His type sustains western civilization. Race is not a prerequisite for being westernkind.
Yes, the left wants woke Dirtbagocrat activists. who legislate from the bench. Everybody know this and yet the D-Bag lefties still lie and deny it. Utter scum and wannabe tyrants.
” out of whose lives should the debt owed to those further victims be repaid? ”
Isn’t that the crux of CRT? In the minds of those claiming victimhood, we’re all inherently racist, thus it should be paid from all our lives, Seems only the “intellectuals” among the white suburban wine swilling sows buy that nonsense.
The sows in the urban shit holes do it too. They kneel and clean the shoes of racist scum who don’t even deserve to live in America.
You maybe more damaged than the USA is.
I noticed Nancy Pelosi is calling on TERM LIMITS for Supreme Court Justices now. Is that consistent with for an 83 year old member of Congress? Should we expect Dianne Feinstein to follow suite?
Uninterrupted power for mee, but not for thee.
Pelosi has always been a corrupt dingbat and evil piece of shit.
AMEN, you said a great truth. She loves to sit and swill her wine while dreaming up more evil.
We need term limits in the house and senate, I can’t believe how sick, senile and slow some of these people are. I wonder who keeps voting for them, is voter fraud that wide spread.
All the usual suspects/race baiters are getting their 5 minutes on the ”news”.
Not one has said a word that was not predictable. There is great money in the Race Hustler business.
Once people can be confused into thinking of themselves as a community (black community, latino community, gay community) they make the next easy step of “”them against us””. They will clearly see themselves as victims of something/someone..
These so called communities should learn to tune out anyone who is shouting the word COMMUNITY.
That word is a dead give away youve got a race hustler nearby.
“Community organizer” means Democrat vote collector 🙂
And in Brokeback Obama’s case, it meant occupy a cushy office when he bothered to show up, eat free meals and have underlings do the vote collecting.
Yeah, I hate the use of the word “community” when applied to a demographic, especially because it always refers to leftists and racists and ignores the rest of the demographic and pretends they agree. Not every member of a demographic feels to be part of a “community” separate from other Americans. Only stupid bigots feel that way.