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Clarence Thomas Gets Caught Trying to Reinvent Anita Hill

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Meanwhile, siding with the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas concluded that school districts have no interest in remedying segregation: “But without a history of state-enforced racial separation, a school district has no affirmative legal obligation to take race-based remedial measures to eliminate segregation and its vestiges… As these programs demonstrate, every time the government uses racial…

October 4, 2007 1 min read Free to read

Meanwhile, siding with the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas concluded that school districts have no interest in remedying segregation: “But without a history of state-enforced racial separation, a school district has no affirmative legal obligation to take race-based remedial measures to eliminate segregation and its vestiges… As these programs demonstrate, every time the government uses racial criteria to ‘bring the races together,’… someone gets excluded, and the person excluded suffers an injury solely because of his or her race… Simply putting students together under the same roof does not necessarily mean that the students will learn together or even interact. Furthermore, it is unclear whether increased interracial contact improves racial attitudes and relations… Some studies have even found that a deterioration in racial attitudes seems to result from racial mixing in schools.”

Additionally, BC has also commented on Uncle Thomas in political cartoons reflecting our view of his support for the death penalty and opposition to affirmative action. We will let these images speak for themselves.

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