Clarence Thomas Just Set Civil Rights Back 70 Years

https://www.theroot.com/clarence-thomas-just-set-civil-rights-back-70-years-1851499947

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  2. It’s almost stunning how much power is endowed to so few. The whims of a handful affect millions, so fragile.

  3. They should have cast him in Django unchained instead of Samuel L Jackson

  4. typically ~60% of voters vote…maybe this will encourage them to vote for their own well being

  5. Thomas is warming up the old Jim Crow doctrine that you can discriminate as long as the law doesn’t explicitly say it’s doing so. A little nudge nudge wink wink and it’s okay.

  7. Well remember when Jesus said, “Get yours, screw the little people, for they are not worth remembering.”

  9. 200 years ago Clarence Thomas would have been one of those black people that owned slaves.

  10. It’s interesting that ensuring the appropriate drawing of districts is not the role of federal judges, according to Thomas, yet women’s bodies are well within their purview.

  11. Be cool if he went down with us on this sinking ship. If MAGA stripped him of his money and seat on the bench because he’s black.

    Sorry I want to see a leopard eat this guys mother fucking face if we go down. I want him to come with us.

  13. Another guy with Brain Worms, the majority of the court is suffering from them apparently.

    It’s become quite an epidemic in Republican circles. Maybe they should try drinking some bleach, Injecting some kind of disinfectant or perhaps use a powerful UV light to cure themselves of the brain eating malady. Eating ivermectin by the tube full might be effective?

  15. Thomas was nominated to the Court by George H.W. Bush. If enough voters had voted for Dukakis instead of Bush, and so on, there would be no Clarence Thomas on the Court.

  16. These people in power truly don’t feel the need to hide themselves anymore. We tolerate so much as a society.

  17. Advance your career through diversity programs, then pull up the ladder when you get to the top.

  19. [Justice Clarence has long said that there is nothing wrong with “separate but equal” and that brown v BOE should be repealed.]

    Yeeeesh. Where the hell did republicans find this guy? Does he even know his skin color? This is an opinion that is unjustifiable for your mechanic, much less a SC judge. It doesn’t even make sense in bribery land, how can you be this racist when you’re so old you literally experienced the racist laws you want reinstated?? He’s like a comic book supervillain for Malcolm X!

  21. I’m just glad the quiet parts are being said out load before election

  22. Man would call himself 3/5ths of a person just to “own the libz.” Pathetic.

  23. So just to understand his view point:

    – Redistricting is for politicians, not judges
    – But Congress’s VRA preclearance, which is explicitly in the purview of Congress per 14A, was struck down by most of the same judges…

    This should mean the preclearance clause is back in effect then. God, if only Dems had the House rn.

  24. Civil rights, women’s rights, human rights. The only thing protected is 2nd amendment “rights.”

  26. >But then, he made comments that singlehandedly set the Civil Rights Movement Thomas went on to blame the problem with these kinds of cases on the Supreme Court’s historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision which banned racial segregation in public schools.

    Dafuq is this sentence? It’s missing some words or punctuation or something lol. Man, being an editor must be a piss easy job.

  27. We need to make sure supreme justice can’t be removed at whim. However, a life time appointment with no accountability is ridiculous, especially considering life expectancy is now almost 50 years longer than it was at the birth of our nation. We also live long enough to become mentally unstable and we need to rely on themselves to step down? We need term limits and likely age limits.

  30. This guy is going to go down as the worst Black American in US history.

  31. “Racial isolation” itself is not a harm; only state-enforced segregation is. After all, if separation itself is a harm, and if integration therefore is the only way that Blacks can receive a proper education, then there must be something inferior about Blacks. “ – Clarence Thomas

  33. These motherfuckers are using the esteemed legal principle of “we wash our hands” of any responsibility. And then they have the fucking nerve to say that *we* don’t understand their role in society. Fuck them. They have no legitimacy in my book. They might as well be wearing hoods.

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