Clarence Goes A Courtin'

Affirmative, Self-Loathing

June 30, 2023

Clarence "I Want To Be A Real (White) Boy When I Grow Up" Thomas has finally seen his dream come true. Well, no so much a dream – at least not for decent people, and certainly not for people of color – more of a horrific nightmare…and he has others equally as heinous. Uncle Thomas led a 6-3 Extreme Court decision to overturn decades of decided law – something at least four of the six jurists insisted they would never, ever do – in ending affirmative action for everyone except rich white people.

“This is not a normal Court.”
President Joseph R. Biden, June 29, 2023

The Retrograde Court: Guess which clowns voted against progress

Uncle T of course, got where he is thanks in large part to affirmative action. Thomas received a scholarship set aside for racial minorities as an undergraduate at Holy Cross College. He was admitted to Yale Law School in 1971 as part of an aggressive (and successful) affirmative-action program implemented to achieve a 10 percent minority enrollment. Yale offered him generous financial aid. But that was then. 

Interestingly, while most of his colleagues on the Court, who lied about abortion, Thomas lied through his teeth about his stance on affirmative action during his “high-tech lynching”…I mean, his confirmation hearing. Thomas is known to have blamed affirmative action for ruining his career. Thanks to his raging cynicism and paranoia, and perhaps a warranted or unwarranted lack of self-esteem, he blamed affirmative action for making it look like he could not achieve things on his merits as a human being.

Long-time Supreme Court mime Clarence Thomas,

now won't STFU

“I have not during my adult life, nor during my academic career, been a part of any quota. The effort on the part of Yale, during my years there, was to reach out and open its doors to minorities who they felt were qualified. And I took them at their word on that, and I have advocated that very kind of affirmative action.”
          Clarence Thomas, testifying under oath, September 11, 1991

Thomas and his fellow unravellers have once again succeeded in moving America backwards. By upending precedent and legislating from the bench, which is something else they claim to vigorously oppose. Fuck. Them.

Tune in next time when the Roberts Court votes to reinstate King George III (or Donald Trump, whoever happens to be more available at the time) and inscribe into law that it be a federal crime to throw tea into America’s waterways.

I. Mangrey, on the case.