“ A ‘fifteen-cent’ law degree
Thomas, one of the court’s most conservative members, has long been known for his distaste for affirmative action policies. He has been open about the fact that he made it to Yale because of affirmative action, but says the stigma of preferential treatment made it difficult for him to find a job after college.
In his memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son,” Thomas says he felt “tricked” by paternalistic Whites at Yale who recruited Black students.
“After graduating from Yale, I met a black alumnus of the University of Michigan Law School who told me that he’d made a point of not mentioning his race on his application. I wished with all my heart that I’d done the same,” he wrote.
“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 anyone denied it,” Thomas wrote. “As a symbol of my disillusionment, I peeled a fifteen-cent price sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I’d made by going to Yale.”
He dissented in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, which allowed for the limited use of race in college admissions.
“I believe blacks can achieve in every avenue of American life without the meddling of university administrators,” he wrote in his dissent.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics/clarence-thomas-ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-affirmative-action/index.html
He is a troubled, sick man. He feels guilty for his own success, and blames it on his skin color. A true uncle Tom. He can literally not let slavery and the color of his skin go himself, but he wants everyone else to do so.
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