I read this article about Clarence Thomas and I must admit that it made me laugh. It made me laugh because it goes far to attempt to rationalize Thomas’s brand of conservatism and compare it the with the likes of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, (Malcolm X), Dr. King, and icons of the Black Panther Party.
I read this article knowing full well that Thomas has voted with the religious foundationalist white Nationalist right wing justices on the SCOTUS to gut the voting rights act and protect new racially restrictive state laws to ensure that there will never be another Black President of the US.
The White Supremacist minority of the country is willing to go so far as to dismantle our republic and representative governance to install authoritarian autocratic governance than ever allow another non-white head of state. But let’s be clear, while most White Supremacists willing to take to the streets to are mere foot soldiers, the real power belongs to the heads of capitalist corporations, religious con artists, and the appropriate governing entities.
Clarence Thomas and Blacks like Thomas Sowell, Tim Scott, and Ward Connelly were never of the same mind as Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, and even Dr. King. They never wanted economic and social justice. They wanted Conservatism that was acceptable to White Supremacists.
The Black activists wanted separate but equal justice and the right to self determination. The Black Civil Rights and Social Rights Activists wanted justice when White murders wore badges, they wanted less policing of our communities, less poverty so there would be less crime, and better education that includes pre-slavery cultures of aboriginal people.
Frankly, I am skeptical of mixing social justice and politics with any religious doctrine since in most case that means justice for the affected aboriginal peoples takes a back seat to the established doctrine of the Abrahamic religions, which are fundamentally rooted in the rights of aboriginals being subservient to those who imposed those beliefs on them.
However, this article is laughable in trying to make the case that White Liberals have never been significantly different from racist White religious Conservatives. Which group set up and sustained the underground railroad? Which group set up breeding farms? Clarence Thomas has consistently voted to block access to the ballot for millions of minorities in this country simply because of his skewed notion of Republicanism.
Yes el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz and Marcus Garvey were willing to discuss separation with White Supremacists. They and others were willing to discuss going back to Africa. I don’t agree with either on their religious beliefs, but it is not necessary. The truth is none of the Civil Rights era activist sought to take anything away from our right to justice. Clarence Thomas continues to do wage war against people who fight and die every day for things White Nationalists liberal and Conservatives have by virtue of their skin color.
I am reminded of something this article brought up. When DJT won the Presidency, supporters of Bernie blamed Black voters. They didn’t accept their role in creating what we have today. The concerns about the unreliability of moderate and independent White voters is legitimate. It should not have taken the television images of burning buses, fire hoses used on Black highschool kids and women for them to see how ‘Jim Crow’ undermined the ideal of American Freedom.
Clarence Thomas is no social justice radical and never was. Don’t let writers like this succeed with the DJT notebook of how to lie and win new friends.
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