I despise Clarence Thomas. Thomas compares affirmative action to Jim Crow laws

[cali]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got into Yale Law School thanks in part to affirmative action, according to his autobiography.

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Justice Thomas was the sole dissenter in Monday's Supreme Court decision that sent a case about affirmative action in college admissions back to a lower court.

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But Thomas disagreed with his fellow justices' ruling, comparing the arguments used by the University of Texas, Austin, to Jim Crow segregationists.

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Thomas goes on to write that "Unfortunately for the University, the educational benefits flowing from student body diversity– assuming they exist –hardly qualify as a compelling state interest. Indeed, the argument that educational benefits justify racial discrimination was advanced in support of racial segregation in the 1950’s, but emphatically rejected by this Court. And just as the alleged educational benefits of segregation were insufficient to justify racial discrimination then … the alleged educational benefits of diversity cannot justify racial discrimination today.”

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0625/Clarence-Thomas-compares-affirmative-action-to-Jim-Crow-laws

[Skittles]

1. he is disgusting

he has no business being any kind of judge, let alone a Supreme Court judge.....I often wonder what the great Thurgood Marshall would think of Clarence

[geek tragedy]

4. I don't think Marshall would even say a word, just a sneer of contempt nt

[PDJane]

2. Why aren't impeachment proceedings being considered for this corrupt man?

[cali]

5. well just to start with, the House is controlled by repubs

[geek tragedy]

3. Fittingly, that would make his presence on the SCOTUS like a burning cross there.

Because his skin color had NOTHING to do with his appointment to replace Thurgood Marshall.