Clarence Thomas has shamed Al Sharpton and issued a sharp rebuke of fellow Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in his opinion on affirmative action.
Recently-appointed Justice Jackson wrote ending affirmative action as the court ordered, โlocks blacks into a seemingly perpetual inferior caste.
“Such a view is irrational; it is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through barriers, rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood.โ
Al Sharpton said: โI think that this is tantamount to sticking a dagger in our back because what they have said now is that it is unconstitutional to even consider race.
โAnd given the racial history of the country, letโs not act like blacks are behind because thereโs something in our genes that made us behind.โ
โWe were enslaved 246 years.
โSo it is to completely throw to the wind the history of why we needed Affirmative Action in the first place.
โAnd I think it is unimaginable not to consider race, given the history of this country and given the data that we still see in this country.
โBlacks are still 10 percent less in terms of family wealth than whites.
“We are still less in education.
โSo either youโre saying weโre genetically inferior or that thereโs something that is unequal in society and is unequal because of law.โ
Justice Thomas wrote that Justice Jackson, in her dissent, attempts to link โthe legacy of slavery and the nature of inherited wealthโ to the disproportionately negative socioeconomic outcomes for black Americans.
โJustice Jacksonโs race-infused worldview falls flat at each step.
“Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments.
โWhat matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them.
โThis, she claims, locks blacks into a seemingly perpetual inferior caste.
โSuch a view is irrational; it is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through barriers, rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood.
โIndividuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments.
โWhat matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them.โ
Justice Clarence Thomas blasts Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s arguments in his concurrence:
KBJ “locks blacks into a seemingly perpetual inferior caste. Such a view is irrational; it is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push throughโฆ pic.twitter.com/c3fUQPWETP
โ Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 29, 2023
The Reverend Al Sharpton SLAMMED todayโs Supreme Court ruling overturning affirmative action in Chapel Jill, North Carolina alongside Martin Luther King III. pic.twitter.com/vm9XpfMYtF
โ Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) June 29, 2023
โMany universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individualโs identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin,โ Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion.
โEliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,โ he added.