June 26, 2003
UNCLE THOMAS
I made fun of Maureen Dowd the other week [see
href="http://lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1
37">TIME TO HANG IT UP, 6/11/03] when she decided to traffic in
the lame clich?s of men, women, barcaloungers, and shoe shopping. She
gets serious
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/opinion/25DOWD.html">this
week though, basically calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas an ungrateful negro Uncle Tom in her column. Doesn't he know
that he owes his entire life accomplishments to sassy beautiful
liberals such as herself? You tell him Maureen! That uppity negro
needs to mind his manners and not forget his place.
Here's a pernicious aspect of affirmative action. How would you
like to have elevated yourself from the lowest rungs of American
society to perhaps one of its most elevated stations, a seat on the
Supreme Court, and have people discount your achievements as nothing
other than skating by via racial preferences? Dowd:
"The dissent is a clinical study of a man who has been
driven barking mad by the beneficial treatment he has received.
It's poignant, really. It makes him crazy that people think he is where
he is because of his race, but he is where he is because of his
race."
Barking mad indeed. What other Supreme Court Justices have to
put up with this level of condescension from an intellectually
lightweight ditz whose greatest claim to fame is banging Michael
Douglas before he met Katherine Zeta Jones? I hope that makes her
bitter, by the way. I don't recall reading about dissenting opinions
from Justice Ginsberg or Justice O'Connor that intoned "stupid chicks,
they're probably just on the rag." Dowd later goes on to contradict
herself in the course of a single sentence.
"Other justices rely on clerks and legal footnotes to
help with their opinions; Justice Thomas relies on his id, turning an
opinion on race into a therapeutic outburst."
Somehow, the fact that Thomas writes his own opinions is held
against him. Thomas probably knows that if deigned to use clerks to
help him write his opinions--as most Justices feel free to do--it would
be presented as evidence of his intellectual shallowness and more proof
that he was a simple black footservant of Justice Scalia. Of course,
Justice Thomas can't be writing logical and reasoned legal arguments
based on his life's experiences and the law, he "relies on his id."
Look out! Crazy black man on the loose talking all sorts of shuck and
jive nonsense!
I don't know if Maureen Dowd is a racist, but if belittling the
professional accomplishments of a minority as simply charitable
largesse and denying their ability to think rationally for themselves
are racist notions then I think she's fitting the bill pretty well.
But what can you expect from a woman?
Posted by Lexiphane at June 26, 2003 12:29 PM
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