Chris
02-22-2014, 10:33 AM
We're not more racist, we're more race-conscious, more PC about it.
Justice Thomas: Society is more race- and difference-conscious than in the 1960s (http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/justice_thomas_society_is_more_race-_and_difference-conscious_than_in_the_1)
Justice Clarence Thomas told college students in Florida on Tuesday that society today is more conscious of racial and other differences than when he grew up in segregated Georgia.
Yahoo News covered Thomas’ remarks, delivered during a chapel service at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
“My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school,” Thomas said. Thomas said he believed he was the first black youth in Savannah, Ga., to go to a white school, yet the issue of race rarely came up.
“Now, name a day it doesn’t come up,” Thomas said. “Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah. Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them—left them out. That’s a part of the deal.”
Thomas said his worst instances of poor treatment were in the North, rather than the South, according to the Yahoo News account. “The worst I have been treated was by northern liberal elites. The absolute worst I have ever been treated,” Thomas said.
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It's causing quite the stir...
Libs Attack Justice Clarence Thomas For Slamming Obsession With Race (http://conservativeread.com/libs-attack-justice-clarence-thomas-for-slamming-obsession-with-race/)
Race baiters unhappy about being called out
Following U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ assertion that the nation is far too obsessed with racial differences, liberals pounced on Thomas’ remarks by hurling racist slurs while others implied that the black judge was himself being racist.
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To his defense...
Justice Thomas Is Right About America’s Obsession With Race (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/21/justice-thomas-is-right-about-america-s-obsession-with-race.html)
It’s become a compulsion to use the label for any political opponents—and it’s destroying our cohesiveness as a society....
...Unfortunately, very little of the dialogue involving race in America today is positive, uplifting, or inspirational. Instead, there is a compulsion by many on the left to brand their political opponents as being racist....
For example...
MSNBC: UAW Vote In Tennessee Failed Because Of Racism (http://thefederalist.com/2014/02/21/msnbc-uaw-vote-in-tennessee-failed-because-of-racism/)
Did last week’s United Auto Workers (UAW) vote fail because autoworkers in Tennessee didn’t want their communities to end up bankrupt like Detroit? Nope. Did the UAW vote fail because autoworkers were happy with their pay and benefits? Nope.
According to MSNBC writer Timothy Noah, the vote failed because people who don’t want to join unions are racist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbTlakR4lQE
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Justice Thomas: Society is more race- and difference-conscious than in the 1960s (http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/justice_thomas_society_is_more_race-_and_difference-conscious_than_in_the_1)
Justice Clarence Thomas told college students in Florida on Tuesday that society today is more conscious of racial and other differences than when he grew up in segregated Georgia.
Yahoo News covered Thomas’ remarks, delivered during a chapel service at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
“My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school,” Thomas said. Thomas said he believed he was the first black youth in Savannah, Ga., to go to a white school, yet the issue of race rarely came up.
“Now, name a day it doesn’t come up,” Thomas said. “Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah. Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them—left them out. That’s a part of the deal.”
Thomas said his worst instances of poor treatment were in the North, rather than the South, according to the Yahoo News account. “The worst I have been treated was by northern liberal elites. The absolute worst I have ever been treated,” Thomas said.
...
It's causing quite the stir...
Libs Attack Justice Clarence Thomas For Slamming Obsession With Race (http://conservativeread.com/libs-attack-justice-clarence-thomas-for-slamming-obsession-with-race/)
Race baiters unhappy about being called out
Following U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ assertion that the nation is far too obsessed with racial differences, liberals pounced on Thomas’ remarks by hurling racist slurs while others implied that the black judge was himself being racist.
...
To his defense...
Justice Thomas Is Right About America’s Obsession With Race (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/21/justice-thomas-is-right-about-america-s-obsession-with-race.html)
It’s become a compulsion to use the label for any political opponents—and it’s destroying our cohesiveness as a society....
...Unfortunately, very little of the dialogue involving race in America today is positive, uplifting, or inspirational. Instead, there is a compulsion by many on the left to brand their political opponents as being racist....
For example...
MSNBC: UAW Vote In Tennessee Failed Because Of Racism (http://thefederalist.com/2014/02/21/msnbc-uaw-vote-in-tennessee-failed-because-of-racism/)
Did last week’s United Auto Workers (UAW) vote fail because autoworkers in Tennessee didn’t want their communities to end up bankrupt like Detroit? Nope. Did the UAW vote fail because autoworkers were happy with their pay and benefits? Nope.
According to MSNBC writer Timothy Noah, the vote failed because people who don’t want to join unions are racist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbTlakR4lQE
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