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He is a sad and polarizing figure whose legacy will place him as more of an aberration and token place marker than a legal scholar of any merit. He obviously harkens to a place in the old south wherein blacks who denigrated members of their own race believed they assumed a higher stature than the marginalized, while not necessarily being equivalent to whites. Also, like Ward Connerly, especially given Thomas' unworthy-of-a-Supreme-Court-justice background, his having attained everything owing to affirmative action and civil rights is, to him, more of a cause of embarrassment than a statement of necessity for such institutionalized anti-racism devices. Had Anita Hill been a white woman he would not be on the bench. Interestingly, despite his continually voting against the interests of black people, he still upholds the mantle as "the African American member" of the court, and therefore the President believes that we can move on to insuring other "minorities" are represented.
John
On Jun 22, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Aggo Akyea wrote:
Justice Clarence Thomas, alone among his colleagues, said he would have resolved the case and held that the provision, known as Section 5, is unconstitutional. "The violence, intimidation and subterfuge that led Congress to pass Section 5 and this court to uphold it no longer remains," Thomas said.