Clarence Thomas on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as an existential threat to America and the principles that founded it 250 years ago.
“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,” Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas Austin Law School pegged to the nation’s upcoming milestone birthday.
A spirit of “cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus” toward America – by Americans – has taken hold, Thomas said in remarks carried live on CSPAN.
Is this man aware he is black?
He is aware that he wants to pull the ladder up on other POC right the fuck last year.
Back in the day, certain slaves were “house slaves” who were still treated like shit and beat. But were “allowed” to do work in the plantation house instead of the fields.
They were often more racist then the slave owners. The only way they could build themselves up was by tearing their brothers and sisters down.
The worst the slave owner consider them, the better the ones in the house seemed by default.
While Thomas should be aware of all that as a “legal scholar” who would have had to study shit like this for years…
The mentality isn’t relegated to just slavery.
Pick any random minority, and you can find a member who does similar.
So he probably wouldn’t mind if slavery came back, because in his head he’d still be one of the “valuable exceptions” and has done the mental gymnastics to think he’d even hold onto his position.
Understanding how they think is important to stop them.
See Latinos for Trump.
This unfortunately, too real, truth nuke. It’s really unfortunate that people who have mentality exists no matter their skin color or ethnicity
Fred Hampton once said (paraphrasing from memory) “a pig is a pig is a pig. No matter black, white, yellow, or polka dot”.
I think this applies here in the sense that race can be ignored as a factor in the corrupt, the same way you can rule out a coherent doctrine. The only academic question about Thomas is has he received a bribe, or is he angling for a gratuity?
I’m saying this as someone who’s tried to comprehend his political/ legal philosophy for years. Observers have often said that Thomas believes that black Americans can find more equality in capital than they can with the franchise. The reasoning goes that black Americans can never rely on voting because they’re a permanent minority and therefore perpetually dependent on the good will of white America; good will that can never be trusted. Valid point IMO. But nah… Justice Thomas was just corrupt.
He had nephew he had been the legal guardian of he cut contact with when was 19 and Harlan Crowe stopped paying for his tuition.
He’s literally an Uncle Tom.