Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent his career lecturing Black people about living off of welfare from the government. But it turns out he’s apparently done very well with handouts from the rich and powerful – a fact that has not gone unnoticed by the Black community.
Long before he became a Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas told a story at a public gathering that still sounds shocking years later. At the time, Thomas was a relatively unknown conservative who had paid his way to attend a conference of Black conservatives just before Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981. At the conference, Thomas told listeners that he opposed public assistance because it had caused his sister and her children to become dependent on welfare payments.
He recently voted with the high court’s conservative majority to gut affirmative action in college admissions, overturning a long-standing precedent. But his critics say Thomas would not have made it on the high court without affirmative action. They say he was admitted to Yale Law School because of an affirmative action program and that he was nominated to the Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first Black justice, in part because of his race.
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