Justice Thomas says his law degree from Yale is worth 15 cents, because he got asked tough questions at job interviews for months, before landing a job with Jack Danforth, a mere Senator of the United States. He blames affirmative action.
Besides Dubya, this has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard anybody say. It's almost a satire on the victim mentality. I had to recheck the page to make sure I wasn't reading "The Onion."
It surpasses Jesse Jackson's victim mentality-- hands down.
did you just not read his book (or listen to him talk, or read what he said)?
How would you value a degree that could not land you a job, when all prospective employers saw was someone who couldn’t possibly have deserved the sheepskin?
I haven't read his book but DID watch the entire two segments on 60 minutes as well as several other interviews. He is the last black that would consider himself a victim.
a very attractive black lady friend of mine... who lived in DC at the time.... told me "who knew that there were tons of succssful, conservative black men in the country. You don't hear much about them!" this was said in response to the character witnesses that were called in Thomas's defense.
it was an enlightening statement to me... shortly thereafter - she married one.
We really gotta quit living by sound bites....
Cosby just published a book.... that is worth reading - be you black white tan yellow brown or green - it don't matter - just read the book.
Ditto, I could not ageee with you more. Long Live Judge Thomas.
Pepe
Also, it's the kind of thing conservatives would be all over a liberal about, and meanwhile refuse the context when it's given.
read his book.
Out of context is not the most appropriate characterization of your words nor the Huffington Post "article". I would say that you and HP misconstrued his words.
Your lead sentence is itself outrageous.
“Justice Thomas says his law degree from Yale is worth 15 cents, because he got asked tough questions at job interviews for months”
Did you get that from the HP article? I don’t see how.
Here’s what Thomas said. . .
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"I learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much any one denied it," Thomas writes. "I'd graduated from one of America's top law schools, but racial preference had robbed my achievement of its true value."
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Thomas said he began interviewing with law firms at the beginning of his third year of law school.
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"Many asked pointed questions unsubtly suggesting that they doubted I was as smart as my grades indicated," he wrote. "Now I knew what a law degree from Yale was worth when it bore the taint of racial preference."
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Thomas never said that he was asked “tough questions”. He said he was asked questions implying he wasn’t smart enough.
But then, you had a point to make and you didn’t let the facts get in the way.
I don't know of any online transcripts for 60 Minutes interviews.
You could find the Rush Limbaugh 90 minute interview, but I believe that wouldn't be acceptable to you even though it is simply an interview.
Great post, Thank you for taking the time to write it. I did listen to the Rush interview and the Sean inview. I watched those confirmation hearings long ago and always wondered when Hill ws going to be exposed for all the lies she was telling. It never happened that I know of. I is amazing what the loons will do even on National TV. Did you watch? They even kept a straight face during the questioning...amazing.
I'll be damned if I know why they were talking about pubes in cokes instead of why he had shit for experience, and if that was why his views were so insane.
you just look to what Scalia says, and then agree.
(I know, I know, Thomas is more of a "true" Originalist judge than Scalia)
Yes, I knew what Thomas said in the article. I would call that having tough questions. Does he say what the questions were? The details missing are important. Can you fill those in?
I did find a 60 minutes interview. Not the transcript, the interview itself.
Even though he got a raw deal from the confirmation hearings, (which sparked years of resentment from Republicans, BTW).
Really, I don't find his complaining about earning a degree after making it to the Supreme Court to be substantial.
"I don't find his complaining about earning a degree after making it to the Supreme Court to be substantial"
Let me try again. He was NOT complaining about the degree he received. He was NOT complaining about the education he received. He was making note of how society (or at least the parts that he came into contact with shortly thereafter) devalued his accomplishments because HE was black.
All he was doing was putting his degree and times into perspective. Just because things turned out "OK (or great)" for him, then the historical FACTS mean NOTHING? Is THAT what you are saying?
At the risk of sounding like J. Blender, why don't you make the claim that because all American blacks are free today, with a growing upper class and middle class, then their complaints about slavery and subsequent civil rights abuses is just sour grapes?
If you KNOW what he said, then your DELIBERATE twisting of his words is all the more egregious.
No link on the 60 minutes interview?
I was giving him a raw deal. I needed to look more closely at this. My apology.
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