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To: Sdgla who wrote (1408905)	6/29/2023 10:28:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579737

He's a self-loathing AA beneficiary. Using the Master’s “Tool” to Dismantle His House: Why Justice Clarence Thomas Makes the Case for Affirmative Action (bu.edu) Justice Clarence Thomas, the second black man to sit on the Supreme Court, is famous, or rather infamous, for his opposition to affirmative action. His strongest critics condemn him for attacking the very preferences that helped him reach the Supreme Court. None, however, have considered how Thomas’s life itself may be used as a justification for affirmative action. In what ways can the master’s “tool” be used to dismantle his house? ....Thomas’s critics, however, vehemently contest these assertions, insisting that a long line of facts prove that he has repeatedly benefited from racial preferences.8 According to these critics, Thomas benefited from racial preferences when he received a scholarship to attend Holy Cross,9 when he received admission to Yale Law School,10 and when he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan (despite purposefully directing his career outside of civil rights and into areas such as tax law)11 to be the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and later Chairperson of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”),12 both agencies dedicated to protecting the civil rights of citizens.13 Moreover, there was that embarrassing moment upon Thomas’s confirmation to a second term as Chairman of the EEOC, when the Republican Assistant Attorney General Bradford Reynolds toasted Thomas as “the epitome of the right kind of affirmative action working the right way.”14 Above all of these positions, however, Thomas’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by the first President Bush in 1991 was the most controversial.15