Goddam, but I'd like to get close enough to bring the pimp hand down on Maureen Dowd. From her column:
He [Clarence Thomas] knew that he could not make a powerful legal argument against racial preferences, given the fact that he got into Yale Law School and got picked for the Supreme Court thanks to his race.
Bitch absolutely thinks the liberals OWN every negro in the country. Any high level position comes with personal consideration. It would be impossible to get into Yale Law School much less the Supreme Court without anyone noticing that you're black. Because there is affirmative action, therefore every black person who has any high achievement has been someway around it, and therefore must support the continuation of the racist practice.
Of course, her necessary premise is that blacks are inferior. Black people only ever achieve anything because of the gracious help of white liberals such as herself who support affirmative action. Unless they can somehow pass for white and hide their African heritage, there is no possible way for a black person to achieve anything without being indebted to Maureen Dowd et al.
Black people OWE her and her liberal friends. She continued "maybe he is disgusted with his own great historic ingratitude." Justice Thomas should feel gratitude to Ms. Dowd. Oh, thank you, great caring white person.
Or to put it differently: Honk off, bitch. I don't owe you a damned thing.
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Article comments
1 - Rodney Welch
Hostile, dick-swinging attacks like this one are surely fun to write -- hate is such a satisfying emotion -- but they always make you sound completely inferior to your target.
2 - Doc
Yeah...you must have stewed on this all of three minutes...but she's right. Ol'pubic hair on the can joker Thomas benefited the whole way up to the top through affirmative action. Truth hurts, huh?
3 - Rastus P Placebo
Maureen O'Dowd's pimp hand of compassion for the darkies
Clarence Thomas is way too uppity.
Yeah, the Ol' Darkies out there are too stupid and incompetent to make it on their own, without the kindly, (and dare I add: heroic) efforts of good, moral, decent White liberals like miss O'Dowd.
What an ingrate Clarence Thomas is! Perhaps Clarence should just be a good little nigger, and shut his mouth, and get to shining miss O'Dowd's jackboots, like he ought'a should.
It's the good, decent, moral and upstanding white liberals in this country to whom every black of any level of accomplishment owes everything, seeing as how blacks constitute an intellectually inferior race. Maureen O'Dowd and other good white liberals were kind enough to allow Clarence Thomas, and others of his inferior race, the priveledge of holding jobs/positions higher than man servant/cotton picker.
If ol' Clarence starts gettin' too uppity, (such as: thinking he can hold opinions on his own, without clearing them with miss O'Dowd and her good, white liberal cohorts, first), then miss O'Dowd will have to put him in his place. Good job, miss O'Dowd!
The great compassion which miss O'Dowd and other good white liberals showed, in allowing Clarence, (and other Darkies) to rise out of the cotton fields, to even VOTE-deserves constant gratitude.
Good for you, miss O'Dowd! You really know how to keep those Uppity Darkies, like Clarence Thomas, in their place: By just reminding them how GRATEFUL ol' Blackie should be to you good, white liberals, and your "affirmative action". Miss O'Dowd, your compassion overwhelms me.
Of course, if ol' Darkie gets TOO uppity, and just won't properly appreciate your deep compassion that allowed him out of the cotton fields in the first place, you always have the option of bringing "The Pimp-Hand of Compassion" down on his ass until ol' Clarence and other uppity niggers LEARN some damn GRATITUDE for all the things you wonderful white liberals have done for him!
Rastus
4 - Phillip Winn
I like James Taranto's take on the subject (First item):
With Extreme Prejudice - II
We were skeptical last month when New York Times columnist Bob Herbert suggested that antiblack racism is prevalent at his newspaper. But on today's op-ed page appears powerful evidence that Herbert may have been on to something. Maureen Dowd weighs in on Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the use of racial preferences at the University of Michigan Law School.
Dowd has not a word to say about Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's majority opinion, or about the dissenting opinions of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia. She concentrates on the dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas. She doesn't grapple with his arguments, quoting a mere 35 words from the decision, of which 27 are from a Frederick Douglass quote Thomas used. Instead, Dowd simply throws racial slurs at Thomas, who is black:
Dowd pretends as if there's no substance to Thomas's argument--she labels his dissent a "therapeutic outburst"-- yet she unwittingly illustrates the truth of one of his arguments, namely that racial preferences stigmatize blacks, whether or not they relied on them for advancement. As Thomas puts it:
Clarence Thomas graduated from Yale Law School in 1974. Twenty-nine years later, after a distinguished career as a public servant, he is ridiculed in the pages of one of America's more influential newspapers by a columnist who presumes that he was unqualified to gain admission on the merits.
What about Justice Scalia, who joined Justice Thomas's dissent? Is he "barking mad" too? Dowd doesn't say. But then, Scalia is white.
5 - Rodney Welch
Did Dowd utter "racial slurs" or did she just tell the obvious truth?
Let's not kid ourselves -- Clarence Thomas is on the Supreme Court at least partly because he's black. When Thurgood Marshall stepped down, there was no question that a black candidate would be appointed. Even Marshall made it clear in a parting interview that color should be a consideration. Thomas took advantage of what amounted to Affirmative Action on the part of the Bush administration, and ever since then he's been indulging in a wishful fantasy that race had nothing to do with it.
6 - Al Barger
Well of course race had SOMETHING to do with Thomas' appointment. Race was a big factor in Marshall's appointment years before. Race will be an issue when Dubya appoints Gonzalez. There's no way for race NOT to have something to do with any non-white person being appointed to a high level position.
But they will be automatically tarnished with suspicion about their qualifications because of affirmative action, even in a position such as a Supreme Court appointment where it does not apply. Dowd's comments only further illustrate exactly this argument, which Thomas has advanced repeatedly.
Bush the Elder wanted a strong conservative appointment, particularly after Souter. That's the main thing he was looking for. Also, he wanted someone with a limited paper trail to be used against him. He was also under strong pressure to appoint a black person.
So should Thomas turn down his opportunity because the whole country is weird about race in 1,000 different directions? Does the fact that a lot of people have racial hangups of one kind or another obligate everyone to support a racial spoils system?
And is there some reason that I'm not aware of that Maureen Dowd should be considered anything but a disgusting paternalistic racist a rung or two lower than the late Lester Maddox? At least Maddox had the virtue of honesty in his hatred, and did not pretend that he cared about the black man.
7 - Shane
How about McDowd is a black female. dumbass. get your facts straight before u go off on an uninformed rant.
8 - Natalie
Al wrote, "So should Thomas turn down his opportunity because the whole country is weird about race in 1,000 different directions?"
Well, the decision, of course, would be his, but if you don't support AA, it does seem quite hypocritical to accept its so-called benefits.
I only identify as human, which is the only race outside of speed contests that I see. (And if you label me as something I know is wrong or innaccurate, you will hear a tirade.) Many years ago, when I decided to attend college, the school offered me a "minority" scholarship. I absolutely turned it down, on principle. My parents still give me crap about it today (as does my spouse, who is Irish), but my decision was the only correct one for me. I do not support affirmative action, whatever the good intentions behind it.
Doesn't mean I support Thomas. I don't.
Doesn't mean I don't love Maureen Dowd. I do. However, this time, she was wrong. Problem is, it's easier to say bad things about Clarence Thomas -- a child should, I mean, could do it! -- than it is to deal with the intellectual or legal arguments surrounding the case. Dowd, sadly, falls into that trap in her columns, and she has been falling into it a lot more in the past couple of years. I wish she had done her job honorably.
9 - Al Barger
This is a black female?
I'm not good with picking out racial mixes, but I'm not seeing any obvious sign of African blood here in her file photo.
Of course, her statements would be just as stupid whatever her personal racial background. Stupidity knows no racial divide.
10 - Natalie
Maureen Dowd is no more black than I am. But never trust your eyes to determine and label people, because you can be very wrong. Just because you may not see overt signs of someone having African or European or whatever blood doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You ought to see my family reunions.
11 - Eric Olsen
As Tom Cruise said, "I am the black man."
12 - Natalie
He may be. I don't know and would not assume one way or another. Then again, most of the people society labels black are not black in hue, so if Tom is, he isn't alone. And there was Bill "Der Schlickmeister" Clinton, your country's first "black" president.
In any case, the only thing important to know is that he is Tom Cruise.
13 - Mr. F'nGenius
Good God Y'all! What a mix of closet rednecks, black racists, uppity pseudo liberals, and good old, naive, but well meaning idiots weighing in on this complex racial issue. Well, like Mark Twain said: "For every complex question there's an easy answer...and it's wrong." Too bad the rest of the job market doesn't work like the world of pro sports...Black? White? Hispanic? Asian? DOESN'T MATTER AS LONG AS YOU CAN GET THE JOB DONE AND HELP WIN THE GAME.
14 - Mac Diva
Is this a prelude to republishing your friend David Yeagley's depiction of a black woman, Al Barger? Funny, you approved of a female ape in the role, but not of a light-skinned person. Would be just the thing after referring to Ms. Dowd as a 'bitch,' wouldn't it?
Clarence Thomas was not chosen because he is black. He was chosen because he is an Uncle Tom. That is obvious because there were black judges qualified to be on the Supreme Court. They were not chosen. Thomas is not qualified, but, he met the requirements of the GOP, that he be willing to be do its bidding. It is impossible for someone to do that, have integrity and honor the suffering of his ancestors. Throughout his 'work' life -- which has involved little work -- Thomas served white conservatives in return for cushy jobs. His mercenary instincts have helped him do well. He has a well-paying sinecure for life. But, he has never done good. If I were a religious person, I would say a very warm welcome awaits him in the afterlife.
15 - andy marsh
I'd like to see your list of Uncle Tom's there Diva! I bet it includes EVERY black person in the country doesn't follow your liberal philosophy!!!