Local leaders and state elected officials of Georgia rightly want to honor Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with a statue on the state Capitol grounds to celebrate a native son who was born into poverty during segregation and now serves on the Supreme Court and is its most influential member. But because Thomas is a principled black conservative whose competence brings out the inner racism within members of the Democratic Party, every Democrat state senator voted against authorizing this statute, and all their arguments opposing it are false.
Democrats claim Thomas’ views on issues are anathema to the black community. They say Anita Hill’s 1991 allegations of sexual harassment are disqualifying and complain that Thomas has failed to recuse himself from certain cases. And they insist it’s not appropriate to honor someone with a statue while they are living.
State Sen. Emanuel Jones made news last week by despicably calling Thomas an “Uncle Tom” because of his views and decisions that, according to Jones, betray his fellow black men to white people.
Thomas is indeed a ferociously independent thinker and has never bowed to any of these racist attacks. In 1998, when a retired left-wing, black federal judge tried to prevent him from speaking to the National Bar Association, the nation’s largest association of black lawyers and judges, Thomas responded in his speech by saying:
I have come here today not in anger or to anger, though my mere presence has been sufficient, obviously, to anger some. Nor have
