During a speech to Palm Beach Atlantic University, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made some insightful and balanced comments concerning race:
My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first black kid in Savannah, Georgia, to go to a white school. Rarely did the issue of race come up. . . . Now, name a day it doesn’t come up. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah. Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them — left them out. . . . That’s a part of the deal.
Thank you, Clarence Thomas. We live in a media culture that publishes a constant stream of racially charged news. Most people in America today think racism is a big issue, and because of that, racism has become a big issue. Let me give you an example of what Clarence Thomas would call “a slight.”
When I am out and about, one of my favorite things to do is people watch. Recently, I was at Kroger shopping with a friend of mine. We were in the produce section, and a middle-aged black woman was on a shopping cart collision course with a middle-aged white man. She stopped short with a smile on her face to let him pass. He did not acknowledge her kind gesture.
He didn’t even look at her. And he didn’t pass. He parked his cart directly in front of her cart and started perusing the avocadoes. Her face wilted; she backed up her cart and pushed it away, visibly less cheerful.
Later, I saw that same woman when my friend and I were ready to check out. She had regained some of her former cheerfulness. She and we approached the same checkout lane, and my friend, who was not paying attention at all, cut her off without realizing it. I tried sheepishly to indicate I was sorry, but she was crestfallen yet again.
On the way home, I thought about this woman. I thought about what she might take from her run-ins with “white people” that day. Perhaps she had never really considered white people to be all that racist. Perhaps her experiences with white people had been generally positive up to that point. But that night, when every news station on the TV was talking about the widespread American epidemic of racism, she thought, “You know, I think most white people are racist.” And if that happened, there would be no end to the amount of confirmation she would be able to collect afterward.
But, in reality, racism didn’t have anything to do with her experience at Kroger. That same middle-aged white dude kept on being rude to everyone regardless of race. He was just a jerk. You know those people that you see, and you think, “Man, that guy just needs a stiff punch in the face… or a hug.” That guy was one of those guys.
And I know my friend is just a space cadet. He’s one of the kindest people I know, and he was really disappointed with himself when I told him this story.
Anyway, Clarence Thomas lived in a world where slights were constant, and many of them may have been racially motivated. But he didn’t view them that way, because that’s not helpful. He didn’t become a Supreme Court Justice by taking every little insult straight to heart. He overcame obstacles. He let insults and racism slide off his back. ((And as an aside, he mentioned that the worst treatment he ever received was from “northern liberal elites.” How’s that for an irony…))
The sooner we stop obssessing over race, the sooner we can start to heal racial divides. I don’t always agree with Justice Clarence Thomas. But on this, he is spot on.
No wonder the idiot rarely speaks
Hey corn stick, Thomas should speak more and you should speak less . . . or perhaps shut TFU.
We need a campaign to get people to stop responding to Blobbie the homo TROLL. He is SO eFn STUPID it hurts as evidenced by an argument that voter ID is so discriminatory because some people might have trouble getting to a DMV. The stupidity is so painful that a personality disorder TROLL is obvious.
The problem is he is a sad lonely little person that is probably so grotesque in stature he has very little other human contact other that his deviant addictions. Others are taking THE BAIT and I can just see him giggling (tripe chin quivering that is) when he gets attention.
Just like I said….how does Blobbie prevent AIDS? Sit down and KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT!!
Blobbie was gone a couple of days and he was spotted and a pic taken by the dumpsters behind his favorite gay haberdashery. See HERE>>>> http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s327/AyRABhimself/Fatguy.jpg
Love the addition of photobucket, I just cringe to think of what the Blobster does with his own pictures.
He would get the boot quickly!?!
People have to keep in mind what they are dealing with when they engage with the BLOB then to remember what he is doing when he sees and hears obamao?? >>>> http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz357/jnbgtr/really-fat-guy-on-computer.jpg
You could really be repulsed until you realize he couldn’t find nor reach “it” HAHAHAHA!!!
Flub-a-dub http://0.tqn.com/d/collectibles/1/0/g/f/3/193flubadub.jpg
One of the BloBBies GROUPIES…..Hope he isn’t as stupid. (NOT…..He’s worse!!)
I found ZagoFagga’s blog here…>>> http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=11783074#page:showThread,11783074
Bob and zago are probably holding hands as we speak.
I don’t think That’s what they are holding…BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Blobbie auditioning for Howard Stern and his groupie, zagoHomo is in line there somewhere …… http://www.drtuber.com/video/141139/fat-dude-with-a-tiny-dick-is-on-the-howard-stern-show-with-friends
Same goes for you, his little Ukie toady.
Howdy make a Doody… You seem to really know a lot about gay websites. Well, get out of your closet and join the rest of your Log Cabin Republiwon’ts. You tend to attack those you most identify with.You are not arguing the point of this article, your taunting like a fifth grade bully, or in your case, a forth grade bully since you dropped out in forth grade.
Right, Thomas should speak more so we could actually know what he thinks…
Bob… This fish stinks…
Thomas thinks whatever Scalia tells him to think.
Much like you and BathHouse Barry the Fairy.
That’s strange, Bob said you smell like fish, zago. That’s his favorite smell.
do you ever NOT have gay sex on your mind? It’s becoming more & more clear to me that most people joining the tea party has absolutely NOTHING to do with politics (which they know nothing about) & EVERYTHING to do with gay sex & teabagging (which they are experts at)
I call you guys stinky fish! Bob…. Forgive them for they don’t have a sense of smell nor not the sense to know when they are being duped by the Koch Bros. and the “F” word network…
Ah, so because he is black and doesnt have the same views, mindset, and beliefs as you think blacks should, he’s an idiot. Sounds like you are the racist one. Proves other peoples point on how dems want to keep them on the plantation (in an analogy).
No, this piece of garbage sat on the Supreme Court for almost 7 FULL YEARS without saying a word. When he FINALLY opens his mouth something stupid come out!
Just because you don’t publicize yourself doesnt make you a moron. At least he said something the country needed to hear
Stupid… Interesting, Thomas is talking about being more tolerant (indirectly) because people want to jump on anyone who says something they dislike. He is not talking about people who are out right racist and behaving like racist. Anyway, you want to call it stupid. So, you are stating to us all that you think tolerance is stupid. Well that fits with liberal thinking and it really would be of no surprise to anyone on this site that you would think that way about tolerance.
Thomas, is a partisan hack & conservative lackey serving only the interests of the Republican Party
Blobbie the lonely little scumbag liberal homo TROLL is a “partisan hack” for his god and master obamao. He is actually STUPID enough to support and believe obomba’s lies about lies and vehemently defends them.
BloB’s god…..>>> http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7423/9132846085_dcb829c159_o.jpg
You’re more like Flub-a-dub then Howdy, but, like you, they are all puppets and like you, they all lived(?) in the 50″s.
If your guy Thomas had an opinion, which is supposed to be his job, then why did he never state any?
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People like you are scarier then trolls because trolls aren’t gun happy and paranoid puppets…
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zangozana is another Bob alias.
There you go again proving how intolerant you and liberals really are… If its not your way it wrong. Thinking that is just a horrible way to go through life.
your name is Bob.
Nooo…His name is BloBBie, the sad lonely little scumbag liberal homo TROLL!!
The BloB is sooo STUPID as to actually support and believe everything his god and master obamao says.
Pic of the BloBster when he is not touching hisself..>>> http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn315/JANPAULYSSA3/fat_guy.jpg
You do know how Bob got his name, don’t you? That’s what his head does when he’s in the backseat of his car with his boyfriend. His mates down at the bathhouse call him Bob the Head.
You teabaggers just cannot get your mind off gay sex. Don’t you think you’d have more fun on a gay porn site? At least there you’d know what you were talking about.
“Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks After Almost 7 Years Of Silence”
On Monday morning, Justice Clarence Thomas broke nearly seven years of
silence at Supreme Court oral arguments.
Problem is, what he said was apparently so funny that you had to be there.
Really — the court’s official transcript didn’t catch his words.
What we do know is that Justice Thomas was speaking to a lawyer representing
the state of Louisiana. The state was arguing that its five-year failure to fund a
lawyer for an indigent defendant facing the death penalty did not undermine the
defendant’s constitutional right to a speedy trial.
Before Thomas spoke in Boyer v. Louisiana, Justice Antonin Scalia was
asking the state’s attorney about the competency and experience of the
lawyers for the capital defendant, Jonathan Edward Boyer. After learning
that the lawyers went to Harvard and Yale law schools,
Scalia said, “Son of a gun.” Then Thomas spoke.
According to the transcript, he said, “Well — he did not --,”
followed by laughter. Louisiana’s lawyer then responded, “I would refute
that, Justice Thomas.”
What came between? SCOTUSBlog, which had its reporter in the courtroom, tweeted,
“Thomas, J. (Yale, JD), speaks: funny at argument—Yale degree could
mean lawyer is incompetent, not competent, capital trial counsel.”
Another person present at the oral argument, law student Billy Freeland, tweeted,
“Thomas might have cracked, ‘That’s not effective counsel.’ But hard to hear.”
The Supreme Court will release the audio of Monday’s oral argument on Friday.
The last time Justice Thomas spoke at oral argument was on Feb. 22, 2006.
While his comment from the bench Monday may have been surprising,
that he drew laughter should not be. Thomas is widely acknowledged to be
a smiling, jovial presence in private and in his public appearances.
Nor should his denigration of his alma mater, Yale Law School, shock
those familiar with Thomas’ biography. The law school is repeatedly
ranked first in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s listings,
but Thomas has said he believes the value of his education there was
“discounted” by his admission under the school’s affirmative action
policy. In a 2007 interview
with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Thomas said, “I still have a 15¢ sticker on
the frame of my law degree. It’s tainted, so I just leave it in the
basement.” He returned to Yale Law School in a detente of sorts in
December 2011 to teach a class, attend a reception and speak to the
Black Law Student Association.
Compared to his fellow justices, Thomas, who has served on the
Supreme Court since 1991, has always been reticent, but until about a
decade ago, he used to ask questions more frequently. His most famous
line of questioning came in a 2002 case
over the constitutionality of a state ban on cross-burning. While his
fellow justices focused on more abstract concerns, Thomas drew on his
experience growing up in the segregated South to remind all in the
courtroom that the law at issue responded to a racist “reign of terror”
and that “the [burning] cross was a symbol of that reign of terror.”
Well it was Democrats that owned the big plantations and did most of the buying of slaves. The mentality of that type of person just has never changed… They always think they are more superior then everyone else.
Those Southern Democrats became the TP partiers of today. It was the civil rights movement that moved them towards the blindness of the right we have today…
Incorrect. Tea Party are from our founding father way of thinking. The current liberal Democrats are the Southern Democrats of old… Minimum wage, Government wealth fare, link card, Government Insurance and so on is what the people are slaves to. The current Democrats are push like crazy to get everyone under their control. Tea Party is about having your freedom of choice, by keeping more of your money in your pocket, spending it the way you want to verse the government tax you and spending it the way they want to.
Paul, are you retarded? “The current liberal Democrats are the Southern Democrats of old.”??? Really? So, the confederates went to war because they opposed states rights?
Nice try on trying to twisting things Bob. Go read a history book and learn. We’ve gone over this in other threads.
He’s an Uncle Tom and shares the views of his handlers. IF he had his own views he would have said something years ago..
It boggles my mind everyday, that liberals can say racist things about black people that don’t walk and talk like how they think black people should. Am I the only one seeing this? Or are people of different color allowed to have a different opinion? I don’t see the evidence that Thomas is just a mouth piece. Just because he doesnt publicly rant constantly like Jackson or Sharpton, doesnt mean he cant speak his own mind.
It’s not that race is a sensitive issue . . . race hustling is a money making scheme.
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs, partly because they want sympathy, and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” — Booker T. Washington in his 1911 book, My Larger Education
And Jessie Jackson was not even born yet…. Just goes to show things do not change.
Well, I get demonized for refusing to be a victim. I grew up before affirmative action and being female was a lot worse than my medium skin tone. Every time I point out the ridiculous “victimhood” of todays _____ (name the minority) I get attacked by black and white, Mexican and muslim, gays and straights. It will never end as long as there are elected officials who actually respond to the stupidity. Too damn easy to force people to aquiesce to your “minority” demands like you would get from little 2 year old babies. It’s easier to whine and cry and stamp your feet than it is to take responsibility for your own life.
Some people hate my guts, sometimes for spurious reasons, sometimes because of a very real personality conflict, and others like me a lot. That’s life. It never occured to me that I was a victim of anything. It occurs to me now that I am a victim of “minority” tyrants who demand special treatment from me. Who want me to “suspend disbelief” (Shrill Hill) for a while and pretend that they are persecuted and down trodden for myriad reasons that *I* am personally responsible for. Ludicrous.
Amen, You owe NO ONE an apology and those who attack you FEAR you may upset their game.
I believe in an America of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY not government reliance, a country of CHARACTER, not characters. The only time I will stick out my hand out is to grab a shovel, a plow, a uniform, a badge or a Bible. I DO NOT look to the government to solve my problems. I know it is up to ME to provide for my family and not the government’s responsibility. There is a HUGE difference between a HELPING hand and a HANDOUT!
Thank you very much. I admit to some trepidation when I look at the responses to my sometimes NON pc statements. Thanks again!
Booker T. Washington was a brilliant man in his time.
It’s not Americans in general who are uber race sensitive, it’s liberals who are beating a mostly dead horse by brining up race all the time.
It’s not really America causing all this fuss. It’s the ultra elites and the mainstream media. Most of the regular people do not have a problem with race. The left wing organizations are keeping this ball rolling hoping they can keep hold of a good part of the Democrat vote. I hope it doesn’t work.
Acquaint yourself with Trotsky’s motives and endgame in his efforts to demonize racial discrimination. It was always about your overthrow, Whitey.
A century later, how many so-called conservatives stoop to degrading levels in search of minority affirmation?
Justice Thomas is one of our best. His demeanor proves the lady who accused him is a liar. The man quietly does his job.
I am sick to death of black and white race baiters. I have no use for white or black racist that accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being racist. They don’t even know the meaning of the word.
The minute someone calls me a racist, I walk away and don’t look back.
They just stopped existing on MY planet.
Thomas one of our best??? Is that a joke?
http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/the-clarence-thomas-scandal/
Progressives are mentally ill. Sorry, Bob.
Establishment Republicans are no friends of mine either.
It sounds like you found a perfect place. The “wacko wing” of the GOP aka tea party
It probably wouldn’t occur to you but you might be underestimating me.
I have read a bit of history and Progressives have been around for along time. In
the 30’s they changed their name to Liberal because they were so despised.
I was a Democrat for many years the Dems left me. I am not happy with the Republicans either. They left me. Tea Party? We will see. I am an American first. I hope you are also. We are in this together so I expect an American to have my back or we will surly fall together.
I cannot support the Progressive agendum. My loyalty is: God, Family, Country.
How is the Progressive ideology working for you? It sure isn’t working for the country as far as I can see.
That being said, I await your rant and name calling IF you are a true Progressive. Please disappoint me.
The reason I want barry impeached is because he cannot complete a sentence without having a lie within the sentence. He has shown America that he has NO “HONOR”. This is the reason for impeachment. NOT the color shade of his skin!
I would have pulled my cart back and deferred to the elderly lady. It’s call respect for her age if no other reason
Reading the comments makes me realize, we are more divided by ignorance and stupidity. the age of common sense and decency seem to have vanished since Obama was elected.
You never had your neighborhood turn into a ghetto because of integration laws..
I believe Judge Thomas’ greatest asset, was the fact that he worked at becoming the best he could be, without regard for his race. He did not look for excuses from his past ancestry, nor blame others for his failures. He earned his place in society and on the Supreme Court and that is how it should be.
He is right about the political correctness of today, which he referred to as being too sensitive. Today instead of trying to help our fellow human, it would seem one looks for a reason to sue and tear down their neighbor. A nation cannot be unified when those who lead it, continually try to cause division.
Racism is very much alive in this country today and it is not just with one race, they are all equally to blame. I have never seen a small child that was born a racist, it took the adults around him or her, to develop racism. That sure does not say much for the adults, now does it?
Of all the Uncle Toms out there Clearance Thomas takes the cake. He’s a right wing meat puppet
Clarence Thomas Compares Affirmative Action To Slavery, Segregation In Opinion
(How did he get where he is now? Did he not get some special treatment?)
In a fiery concurring opinion Monday, Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas said the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions
policy amounted to discrimination and compared the school’s affirmative
action program to slavery and segregation.
“Slaveholders argued that slavery was a ‘positive good’ that
civilized blacks and elevated them in every dimension of life,” Thomas
wrote in his separate opinion on Fisher v. University of Texas at
Austin. “A century later, segregationists similarly asserted that
segregation was not only benign, but good for black students.”
Thomas cited Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme
Court case that led to the desegregation of public schools, in drawing a
comparison between segregation and affirmative action.
“Following in these inauspicious footsteps, the University would have
us believe that its discrimination is likewise benign. I think the
lesson of history is clear enough: Racial discrimination is never
benign,” he wrote in the 20-page opinion. “The University’s professed
good intentions cannot excuse its outright racial discrimination any
more than such intentions justified the now-denounced arguments of
slaveholders and segregationists.”
UT-Austin’s admissions policy grants the top 10 percent of graduating
Texas seniors a spot in the freshman class, and then fills out the
class using a race-conscious system. Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in
the case, claims the policy constitutes racial preference.
Thomas said the policy hurts those black and Hispanic students who
are admitted more than those who are not. “Although cloaked in good
intentions, the University’s racial tinkering harms the very people it
claims to be helping,” he wrote.
He also rejected the idea that racial diversity had any educational
benefit. “As should be obvious, there is nothing ‘pressing’ or
‘necessary’ about obtaining whatever educational benefits may flow from
racial diversity,” he wrote.
Thomas is a piece of garbage that shouldn’t even be on the supreme court!
http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/the-clarence-thomas-scandal/
Black in color only. He’s a plant and a vegetable…
Race always comes up because black drag down neighborhoods and bring white kids to the low black culture…
If blacks would quit claiming all whites are racist maybe they wouldn’t piss people off so much
Clarence Thomas–gentleman and scholar first, American second (but not by much), black man third.
A wise and thoughtful man, indeed; no wonder Democrats tried so hard (and thankfully in vain) to keep him from confirmation…
With all due respect Mr. Thomas, “america” is not too sensitive… only the rebel rousers. Race rarely crosses my mind… only when I hear ridiculous liberal noise. There are no victims… only those who choose to be deadbeats… for a handout.
the democrats have made race an issue to their liking it is time to narrow the definition down to just two categories, American and Non American. no racial caricaturists attached in any way if your a citizen of the Republic your an American if not your a Non American.
It is black America that is to sensative about race. They are the ones keeping racial hatred stirred up and that is because a few blacks make a lot of money on racial tension. Prominent among them, of course, are Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. This country will probably be better off when they are gone from the scene, permanently.