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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (57406)	4/10/2007 2:25:20 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

It's already happened. And they did. blackamericaweb.com That’s why we should be the ones demanding that the Senate confirm Brown. Because if one shuffling black conservative-Uncle Tom-handkerchiefhead-Sambo-house-nigger on a federal bench has been good for us, imagine what TWO can do blackamericaweb.com Thomas is reviled as a "chicken-and-biscuit eating Uncle Tom" (courtesy of Spike Lee) and likened to Judas Iscariot. popmatters.com Thomas's differences with blacks in the civil rights establishment can be traced to the seminal debate between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. Washington advocated self-reliance and urged blacks to develop trades and vocations, instead of agitating for political and social rights. A portrait of Washington hangs prominently in Thomas's court chamber. ............................................................. Thomas's "epiphany" at a Black Panthers support rally set his right-ward migration in motion. Foskett writes: In the din of angry shouting, Thomas heard a voice inside his head question the utility of group protests. Why was he on the street, instead of getting an education? Why was he on the street, instead of heading God's call to love? Suddenly, he believed racial anger and bitterness were leading him away from everything he'd worked for. This is bad? Not just Thomas, though, but he does get his licks. Consider Jesse Jackson, whose denunciations of Mr. Connerly’s opposition to affirmative action degenerated into his calling Connerly a "house slave" and a "puppet of the white man." A few years ago Jackson also condemned Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s vote to place limits on affirmative action programs, characterizing Thomas’s vote as "a brutally violent act" that, "in effect, stabbed Dr. King, . . . paving the way back toward slavery." Along with fellow activist Al Sharpton, Jackson led a prayer vigil outside Thomas’s home to protest the Justice’s decision. Likening Thomas to a Klansman, Jackson asserted, "At night, the enemies of civil rights strike in white sheets, burning crosses. . . . By day, they strike in black robes." .................................... From the podium of a recent NAACP convention, Thomas was denounced as a "pimp" and a "traitor" to the black community. With comparable contempt, the Reverend Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference once said, "I have told [Thomas] I am ashamed of him, because he is becoming to the black community what Benedict Arnold was to the nation he deserted; and what Judas Iscariot was to Jesus: a traitor; and what Brutus was to Caesar: an assassin. Missouri Democrat William Clay labels Thomas and other black conservatives "Negro wanderers" whose goal is to "maim and kill other blacks for the gratification and entertainment of ultraconservative white racists." Similarly, Mr. Clay described black conservative Gary Franks - when Franks was a Connecticut congressman - as a "Negro Dr. Kevorkian, a pariah," who exhibited a "foot-shuffling, head-scratching brand of Uncle Tomism." frontpagemag.com Just a sample. There are many more. google.com Don't expect Mary to change, though. She can't live without blacks on her plantation.