>>I do believe that Thomas actually no longer thinks he is black.<<
I wonder what this means? What does "being black" mean in America anymore? I don't know where Thomas lives, I am guessing it's in our metro area. I know that Scalia, like Cheney, lives in McLean. I think Ginzburg lives in the Watergate. A wealthy, educated black like Justice Thomas, living in a suburb like McLean, populated by wealthy, educated sophisticated people and working at a high-powered intellectual job like Justice of the Supreme Court isn't going to face a whole lot of racial prejudice.
Did you read yesterday's Washington Post? There was an article about murders in the District of Columbia, and a map with black dots for unsolved murders and grey dots for solved murders. The dots were very concentrated in areas which I would call inner city type ghettos, and very sparse in majority white areas. I think black people who grow up in good neighborhoods, who don't use drugs, who don't commit crimes, who attend decent schools, who get high school diplomas, who go to college, who get decent jobs, who don't live in ghettoes have a completely different experience in America than the others.
We can debate for the rest of our lives about which is cause and which is effect, but there's no denying it.
We used to live in Chantilly but when I found out that there were gangs in Chantilly High School and in Centerville High School we decided to move to a school district with fewer gangs. McLean was out of the question, so I focussed on the Woodson and Robinson districts, and we moved into the area before my older son started high school. I think it's up to parents to get their children away from bad influences as much as they can. |
