Clarence Thomas: Affirmative Action Not Needed... Even Though My Office Is "All White Males"

[ariesgem]

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas famously opposes affirmative action, and clearly feels slandered by the suggestion he ever benefited from such a thing.

So, if we no longer need such programs, how's that working out in Thomas's own office?

Not well, as it turns out: "Mine happen to be all white males," Thomas said of his current crop of clerks. "I don't have quotas."

When Rep. Jose Serrano, a Democrat from New York, asked about diversity today at a Congressional hearing on the Supreme Court's budget, it was Justice Anthony Kennedy who answered first: "We've made strides," he said, but there is just tremendous competition for qualified minority law students. "The profession as a whole is very conscious of it, very conscious."

"Conscious," Serrano persisted, "but, have we made progress?"

Of the most recent class of 57 clerks, Kennedy answered, only 7 were minority. And the number of women in the group has fallen dramatically, from more than a third to only 17 percent this year.

In a rare interview last week, Thomas told a writer for Business Week that the notion he was recruited to attend the College of Holy Cross because he is black was "a lie. I don't mean a mistake. It's a lie."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melinda-henneberger/clarence-thomas-affirmat_b_42953.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Clarence Thomas actually spoke? Mark this date on the calendar

He usually just grunts, but not too often.

[jeff30997]

2. If he could...

He would join the KKK!:puke:

[Bunny]

3. Did you ever see Dave Chappelle do Clayton Bigsby?

The (blind) black white supremacist?



I honestly think Clarence would join the KKK if he could.


Here's a link to Dave's piece:

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=24400&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fchappelles_show%2Fvideos%2Fseason_1%2Findex.jhtml&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=false

[Czolgosz]

4. I love when someone who owes his position to race based hiring condemns affirmative action. Or does

Uncle Clarence think his race was just a coincidence in that he was appointed to replace the only black justice ever to have served on the Supreme Court?

[wilt the stilt]

5. He wants to be white so much that

he married a white woman.