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Justice Thomas: Liberals as bad as Southern racists

He should know.  He grew up smack dab in the middle of it.  From ABC News:

Thomas’s most deeply felt opinions are about race, and he pulls no punches. For Thomas, the menacing racists who donned white sheets in the segregated South of his childhood are as bad or worse as the northern liberal zealots in suits and ties.

“These people who claim to be progressive … have been far more vicious to me than any southerner,” Thomas says, “and it is purely ideological.”

Thomas talks about the virulent racism he encountered growing up in the segregated South, when blacks were considered second-class citizens and kept separate from whites by law, and he equates those attitudes with the stereotypes he believes people hold today.

“People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same. My grandfather always said that, ‘The water’s exactly the same.’ But those same people are extremely comfortable saying I can’t drink from this fountain of knowledge,” Thomas says. “They certainly don’t see themselves as being like the bigots in the South. Well, I’ve lived both experiences. And I really don’t see that they’re any different from them.”

He says his critics — the people who question whether he is smart or qualified to be on the Court or who suggest he merely does what a white Supreme Court colleague dictates — are as also as bigoted as the whites of his childhood in the deep South.

“People feel free to say about me what they think about lots of blacks,” Thomas said in an interview in his chambers at the Supreme Court. “Because of the heterodox views I’ve taken, they have license to say it about me with impunity.”

He’s 100% correct. The “tolerant” and “diverse” left feel free to call Thomas an “Uncle Tom” or other derisive names because they feel they can get away with it, since Thomas strays from the liberal massa’s plantation. The same left that purports to be appalled by racism perpetrate that very thing when it comes to Thomas, and they don’t see their hypocrisy at all (or, as is usually the case, they see it but don’t care).

October 1, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | bigotry, hypocrisy