Clarence Thomas Quotes
Your not black enough. If you are black, all you have to do is wear a dashiki and pump your fist, and you’ll get all the money you want.
At the time Thomas was the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In an informal discussion among some of the staff, a white employee was describing the difficulty he had encountered trying to get a bank loan. This quotation illustrates that Thomas has had an antipathy to affirmative action and racial programming or preferences well before he was appointed to the Appellate and later the Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Quoted by Angela Wright, PBS, Tell Me More, October 9, 2007
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This painting depicted a young black girl walking to school surrounded by 4 U. S. Marshalls protecting her from the crowd of white racists trying to prevent her from attending an elementary school under court order. The vicious race hatred that school integration revealed was the national problem that was then surfacing. The graphic is the illustration that appeared in Look with that name.
Clarence Thomas is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate to succeed Thurgood Marshall, and is the second African American to serve on the Court. Since 2018, Thomas has served as the senior associate justice, the longest-serving member of the Court, with a tenure of 29 years, 178 days as of April 19, 2021.
