Quote (Crunkt @ Jun 30 2023 09:10am)
Clarence Thomas benefited from affirmative action only to say its stupid and dumb and people shouldnt be racist
Clarence Thomas was a highly qualified applicant and exemplar student who then graduated to find out that all the law firms hiring dismissed him out of hand because they reflexively assumed that any black man who made it into yale only did so
because of affirmative action, and thus Thomas had to work twice as hard as his white colleagues to prove his worth thanks to the oh so enlightened attitudes of his liberal white colleagues. He's spent his entire life railing quite passionately about this exact subject and his personal animus on it, and this has been his day of reckoning;
“I learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for White graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much anyone denied it,” Thomas wrote. “As a symbol of my disillusionment, I peeled a fifteen-cent price sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I’d made by going to Yale.”