The Holier Than Thou Mindset
Let’s start my litany of issues regarding Justice Clarence Thomas as a demi-god. Thomas is a clone of the royal we in Merry ol’ England. English monarchs used that term for millennia to describe their relationship to God. Essentially, the king or queen of England worked with God.
Thomas blends arrogance with his royal we.
Thomas asserts that he comes from regular stock. He’s just an honest, hardworking person, just like our twice impeached former president, four times indicted person who faces 91 charges.
Well, look at Thomas’s expression when he honks at another driver during an interview for 60 Minutes.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of women’s rights to determine their reproductive choices, Thomas wants to revisit related matters like access to contraception, sex with same-sex individuals, and same-sex marriages. Thomas wants the courts to reverse these cases: Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges. When the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade after a half-century of being the law of the land, Thomas warned Americans, “No one should be confident that this majority is done with its work.”
For a justice on the Supreme Court who was accused of sexual misconduct during the Senate’s confirmation hearing, Thomas certainly has a lot of sexual concerns like contraceptives or sexual relations between same-sex individuals. To edit slightly, Shakespeare’s line from Hamlet, “The justice doth protest too much, methinks.”
Another ethical fatal flaw of Justice Thomas is lying and not reporting sources of income annually for the past three decades while sitting on the Supreme Court. ProPublica has unearthed millions of dollars that Thomas acquired through gifts that were never reported.
Regarding sexual issues in Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges, Thomas never mentioned the Loving v. Virginia decision in 1967. I wonder why he doesn’t wish to revisit that decision prior to this photo.
One would think that a black male would be sensitive to discrimination in general, whether or not it applies to him or not. Justice should decide cases based on their merits, not whether they can identify with the situation.
Many white Americans couldn’t believe that five black police officers who were members of the Memphis, TN, SCORPION police unit beat to death another black man, Tyre Nichols. Blacks, during any stop by white police officers, are in danger of being beaten or shot. Many white Americans still ponder the rationale for this violence.