Recommend Joel Anderson’s biography podcast of Clarence Thomas on Slow Burn. It is excellent, esp. when Anderson talks to Thomas’ mother.

Legal discrimination from our 1950s Supreme Court.

You will always be able to find elements of abuse among human beings, and you will find abuse among anti-racists. However, that does not erase in a rational person’s mine the reality that the US used affirmative action for white Americans for hundreds of years, and that affirmative action for people of color was a…

You think education is “making” people obsessed on race? No sir. The United States is absolutely obsessed with race, and it has been since its beginnings in the US Constitution. You and the majority SCOTUS write as if racism is not the reality in America, as if ignoring it will make it go away, rather than the reality …

“I did not spend time on campus worrying about what others thought of my place there.”

But the Court allowed race-based admissions in the military academies. Are they saying it’s constitutional for some and not for others? It’s ok for gender and for legacies, but they single out race? What am I missing here?

Woops! I see you are getting angry all over again and lashing out uncontrollably. I’ll stop here so you can self-soothe. Be well, my friend!

No hard feelings, I hope! Best of luck in getting your emotions under control and with your career as a keyboard warrior.

Sorry to make you so angry, Rick. I’ll try to tone it down so I don’t hurt your feelings any more than I already have.

That’s not what colleges think. Colleges think that if you are a person of color in this country, you may not have the same advantages as others to achieve high test scores. Colleges think that your family is far less likely to have access to jobs, housing, good schools, and loans. Which, by the way, is factually…

You fight racism by fighting racism, Brother Sanchez.

America has used race for centuries to exclude POC from equal opportunities, and now that POC are using race to level the playing field, America has made it illegal to do so.

Thomas gets into Holy Cross and Yale on affirmative action programs, then he closes the door behind him. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.

If you add enough manufactured pomp, it’s just possible you might forget the colonialism.

Does all this manufactured pomp mask the truth that the royals really don’t do anything?

I loved him in every single thing he did.

Those commercials should cost them a few votes.

“illicit dreams and schemes.”

Living out of a suitcase is not always easy.

Sometimes it’s the only word that will do.