National News: Clarence Thomas Visits An Old Theme: Affirmative Action Is Bad; Nation’s Top Educator Is Canned In Miami
September 12th, 2008Clarence Thomas visits an old theme: Affirmative action is bad.
There’s one undeniable fact about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: He’s consistent. On Tuesday, speaking before an audience of Black-college presidents, the ultra-conservative justice, who was appointed by President G. H. Bush following the death of Thurgood Marshall, hammered home one of his favorite themes - that affirmative action is unconstitutional. Read more of what he said at BET.com/News. Nation’s top educator is canned in Miami. Rudy Crew, who just seven short months ago was lauded as the No. 1 school superintendent in America, was canned amid charges that his action within Miami-Dade County schools didn’t quite match the rhetoric. Find out more at BET.com/News.
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to the UMlaw imposter: stop being a coward by copying some parts of my messages and pasting them…that in and of itself would be OK, but you add hateful sentences and play them off as if i wrote them. Use your own username if you want attention.
I agree with Justice Thomas in the sense that the best should be admitted to the best schools…PERIOD. If you allow sub par (academically) students in, then we will end up having a sub par country of less than elite doctors, lawyers, businessmen, etc. Comparing test scores, gpa, and extracuricular activities should be sufficient. Where does race come into getting high LSAT scores?? If it’s because many minorities do not have access to test prep, or college aid, then we should target those factions….not allowing the non-elite into the top schools. END AFFIRMATIVE ACTION…THE BEST FOR THE BEST.
I need Clarence Thomas to create another form of assistance to level the playing field if he does not like affirmative action. He hates it so much but has yet to make a comment of alternatives that are good.
TT
UMLAW…MR Thomas is a..” House Negro”…And you are the same the only difference is he is black and you think you are white. ..Mr Thomas would be in side the ..Masters house telling and trying to make life hardfor the other slaves so he could live good. You would be cooking..”Charlie”…And washing the dirty clothes and selling your young girls.
Lynn your comments are usually ignorant and embarrassing.
UMLAW one question…would you send your child to an all black school? I doubt it, because you know the education is substandard and often do not have the resources you mention because noone cares about black kids.
It is obvious, that white schools have more money therefore their children end up as you put it, often times end up as “the best”. A black child and a white child that come from similar upbringing and financial status equal the playing field. However, as you know, far more blacks live in poverty than whites.
YOU HEARD OF: IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IT’S WHO YOU KNOW.
“INGORANT”…” You choose the right name let me guess your last name..”Sambo”..
Ignorant: i would not want to send my child to an all Black school b/c, as you said, it is more likely that it will have substandard education/resources. That is a situation for the government to handle, and the local communities. In terms of admission into the top schools, they should only let the most qualified people in…PERIOD. No matter what obstacles the prospective student had to go through, if he/she doesn’t have the grades/scores to match the standard, he/she doesn’t deserve to get in. Being in poverty or going to substandard schools doesn’t give you a pass to an ivy league college/grad school…it really doesn’t.
I have heard of the phrase ‘it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.’ But that’s not always apropos. I didn’t know anyone…but i eventually got into Michigan Law. My parents didn’t know anyone when they came to this country (i was born here). Hard work, and good scores trump ‘knowing someone.’
black people better wake up.
this negro benefitted from affirm action and now that a door was open for him what do he do??? fighting to close that door so another brother or sister cant get the same opp as others.
whites enslaved our people on this land, fought for us to have rights but also to change white people beastly nature and i dare someone challenge that! go back 20 years and you will see, 30 years and you will see, 40 years and you will see who is the real savages but thats another topic.
our ancestors FOUGHT to make our lifes just a tad bit better in this strange land and are we as a people that brainwashed or white washed to think that NOW we need to start ENDING programs that will benefit out children??? am i hearing this right???
so let me understand this from dude that said the best for the best
you get a good job and make this fake ass money and what do u do? go to the “best” neighborhoods which always seem to be white
you go to the “best” schools that seems to be white
you want the “best” women and get you a white girl
and so forth so on
some people think that theres progress going on and i ask what progress? are we moving to black independence or white acceptance? we quick to say we free but dont know what our ancestors went thru for us to be “free”, your history is to divisive and is the past and we need to FORGET IT in order to move on while your taught
the story of jesus
the veitnam war
9/11
the holocaust etc etc and no one thinks thats strange but when u say slavery then its an issue but we quick to say we free
now we have Affirm acts and we dont want that cause what? we dont need it? says who? how many black businesses you work for? how many black own companies you work for or own? so as long as we have to ASK or APPLY for a job to feed our families by the white man then how can we say we no longer need something thats gonna benefit the CHILDREN.
HOTEP brothers and sisters
oh and one more thing, affirmative action is not only for blacks so dont have these self hating blacks and these confused ass whites make u feel like only WE benefits from affrim action. just like welfare and food stamps was made to be like only blacks is on it til the stats came out (check it out) and found out that a large amount of white women was on them shits
brooklyn b you are the man. Tell it like it is no matter if they don’t want to hear it
clarence thomas IS THE EPITOME OF BLACK SELF-HATRED AND A MIS-EDUCATED NEGRO.
Brookyn B:
You have it all twisted. Justice Thomas does seem like a hypocrite since he ‘used’ AA to get into Yale Law School, but maybe he shouldn’t have that position in the first place. This, if anything, could be a reason AA shouldn’t exist. You and many others do not like his perspective/qualificiations. He got there basically b/c of AA and the appointment from a President. How is he closing doors by getting rid of AA?? Are you saying that the only way an african american can get into ivy league schools is via AA?? Can’t they get good grades, and score well on the entrance exams?
You say that your ancestors fought for your equal rights…this is true. But to get more advantages is to have more than equal.
And in terms of your comment about Black businesses, AA has little to do with that. We are talking about THE BEST STUDENTS GETTING INTO THE BEST SCHOOLS. Not whether Blacks make enough capital to start a company.
Blacks and Latinos benefit the most from AA. That is fact. Asians are hurt the most from it. We are minorities but we don’t get any advantages b/c there are so many of us (proportionally) in the good schools. THE BEST/MOST QUALIFIED STUDENTS SHOULD BE IN THE BEST SCHOOLS SO THE BEST GRADUATES BECOME THE BEST PROFESSIONALS. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why does affirmative action seems to mostlly work for everyone except who it was intended to work for? The foreigners seems to have more advantages.
GO to sleep …”SQUID”. Your mind is in chains when you free it then you will wake up!!
Mmm, just saw his profile on a famous WEALTHY&SEXY dating site http://BillionaireRomance.com yesterday. What is he looking for on that site??
Leave her alone. She needs true love and supprt now. I saw her profile on a famous WEALTHY&SEXY dating site ” http://BillionaireRomance.com” yesterday. It seems she is dating online now.
Here I go again. I am Black and against affirmative action. I don’t care about Thomas. The best person for the job is the one with the qualifications to do it. If you hire a person based on color regardless of skills, you don’t get the product that position calls for. It is illogical. We cannot demand equal rights and at the same time preferential treatment based on our color. We have to demand equal rights and access with controls in place to ensure discrimination isn’t based on anything but proper qualifications. Why is that so hard? One poster spoke of our ancestors struggles. Well so shall I. Our ancestors were abused, but they still managed to build their own schools, homes, stores, banks, etc… What happened? Forced integration. After desegretion, the government forced integration. Blacks no longer wanted to IMPROVE what they had, but wanted to get what whites had. They demanded it, when they should have said, “ok, we want to now improve what we have and build on it”. Instead we demand preferential hiring practices and preferential admission to higher institutions. Why not just demand equal access to government programs to improve schools and equal consideration for business loans? Why do we keep banging on whites doors to let us in to places they don’t want us? Why don’t we own many of the businesses in our urban communities? Why do our children celebrate anti-intellectualism? Instead of lambasting me with house ni$$er or sell out, could someone answer the question??
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