Clarence Thomas shamed Al Sharpton and issued a sharp rebuke of fellow Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in his opinion on affirmative action.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote ending affirmative action as the court ordered, “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 through barriers, rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood.”
Al Sharpton said: “I 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.
“And given the racial history of the country, let’s not act like Blacks are behind because there’s something in our genes that made us behind.”
“We were enslaved 246 years.
“So it is to completely throw to the wind the history of why we needed Affirmative Action in the first place.
“And 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.
“Blacks are still 10 percent less in terms of family wealth than whites. We are still less in education.
“So either you’re saying we’re genetically inferior or that there’s something that is unequal in society and is unequal because of law.”
Justice Thomas wrote that Justice Jackson, in her dissent, attempts to link “the legacy of slavery and the nature of inherited wealth” to the disproportionately negative socioeconomic outcomes for Black Americans.
“Justice Jackson’s race-infused world view falls flat at each step. Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments.
“What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them.
“This, she claims, 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 through barriers, rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood.
“Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments.
“What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them.”
“Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion.
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” he added.
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 through… pic.twitter.com/c3fUQPWETP
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 29, 2023
The Reverend Al Sharpton SLAMMED today’s Supreme Court ruling overturning affirmative action in Chapel Jill, North Carolina alongside Martin Luther King III. pic.twitter.com/vm9XpfMYtF
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) June 29, 2023
