Clarence Thomas Admitted Affirmative Action Helped Him Yet He Seeks to Kill It

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Clarence Thomas' life is a perfect example of what affirmative action was meant to do (until he decided that only he should be allowed to benefit).
64% : Poster Boy For Affirmative Action':
63% : The ACLU explained: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two cases concerning affirmative action today.
56% : But Thomas went beyond even fellow conservatives on the bench - he argued for an immediate end to affirmative action.
51% : THERE is something unseemly about a guy who has just built a house on the beach and is now leading the charge to stop all further beach-front construction. ... Or a beneficiary of affirmative-action programs who climbs the ladder of success by attacking affirmative action.
51% : By being so against civil rights and affirmative action, Thomas is also giving the white elite establishment types what we now call "pick me" energy.
46% : If the court strikes down affirmative action -- also known as race-conscious admissions policies -- it would make it unconstitutional for universities across the country to consider a student's race as one factor in a holistic admissions review process.
41% : The hacktavists over at the Supreme Court are busy today looking to destroy more of the American way of life by striking down affirmative action, which is ironic as heck because Clarence Thomas himself said of race conscious admission policies, "But for them (affirmative-action laws), God only knows where I would be today.
39% : He was so angry about being seen as someone who benefited unfairly from affirmative action that he began to hate the mechanism that saved him, and to seek - out of what seems like emotional pathology - to deny anyone else the same helping hand.

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