Robert Reich on Clarence Thomas...

[babylonsister]

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich?hc_location=stream

Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Clarence Thomas, and I all took a course at Yale Law School together called "Civil and Political Rights," taught by Professor Thomas Emerson. Bill was not the most reliable or disciplined attendee (he was often off working on some election), but when he was there he answered every question correctly. Hillary was always an active and enthusiastic participant. I tried as best I could. Clarence, however, sat in the back of the classroom the whole semester with a scowl on his face, never raising his hand, never answering a question, never offering a single word. That was over forty years ago but it seems like only yesterday.

[ananda]

1. Here is Clarence Thomas' philosophy in a nutshell.

I used affirmative action and every social safety program available and got mine.

Now that I have mine, screw everybody else.

[southernyankeebelle]

4. yes indeed especially the African-Americans. Why does he hate his own community?

[JustAnotherGen]

5. He doesn't hate us

He's ashamed of us.

Something happened WITHING him many many years ago that he felt a need to distance himself from other black Americans.


And it has nothing to do with who he married. My parents - same family dynamic.

It has to do with something in him where he is deeply deeply ashamed of himself - and the rest of us.

[southernyankeebelle]

8. Stand corrected. Really it is sooo sad for a man to be that way.

[We People]

9. That was my first thought, too...

Maybe he's trying very hard not to acknowledge his past as long as he was appointed by a Bush. So he wants nothing to do with anything but bootstraps/right wing philosophy.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Or rather

He DOES acknowledge his past - he just doesn't like something that happened in it. I also wonder if that's how he SURVIVED it.

I can't stand him - he has no business sitting in Marshall's seat - but I'm going to at least try to understand him.

[PearliePoo2]

2. scowl on his face, never raising his hand, never answering a question, never offering a single word"

Nothing's changed...

[Bake]

11. Same old same old.

He wasn't interested then and he's not interested now. He's got his orders.



Bake

[leftyohiolib]

3. consistant - the emphasis on con

[RussBLib]

6. hard to think of anyone more undeserving of being on the SCOTUS

well, maybe Rick Perry, Wayne Dahmer, Charles Speck, Charles Manson, etc....

[Arugula Latte]

7. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Pardon my French.

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R