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Hey OT - Is This Politician Racist?

Mike

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This must be called a "high tech lynching of an uppity black" by another black man?


On the House floor earlier this month, State Rep. Alvin Holmes, a Democrat from Montgomery, Ala., called Justice Clarence Thomas a ”prolific Uncle Tom.” Holmes argued that Thomas benefited from affirmative action to get into Yale Law School, but on the high court has “voted against every affirmative action program to help poor people get an education,” according to Fox News Insider.

The remark came on the heels of an NAACP leader calling Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., a “ventriloquist dummy” for the GOP.

Rep. Holmes stood by his use of the “Uncle Tom” label when confronted by radio host David Webb last week, saying Thomas allows himself to be “used to carry the message of a white man, which is against the interests of black people in America.” In the video below, Webb also pushed Rep. Holmes on comments he was reported to have made about interracial marriages, apparently in reference to Clarence and Ginni Thomas.

Then, Rep. Holmes echoed the criticism on Sen. Scott, saying he “takes every position the white folk tell him to take.” Webb told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Rep. Holmes did not seem to know much about Sen. Scott’s positions or policies. “This is hypocrisy; disingenuousness. It’s kind of the old demagogue routine that we can’t accept as Americans,” said Webb, another black reporter.
Well, the great Supreme Court justice is actually just sort of wrong. He was speaking in the past tense when he said that “The worst I have been treated was by northern liberal elites. The absolute worst I have ever been treated,” Thomas said at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. “The worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, by northern liberal elites . . .” One could infer from the rest of his remarks that he thinks his experience is nearly universal, in that white liberal elites treat black people, especially conservative blacks, worse than the majority of southern whites do or maybe even did. And he may well be right. As Justice Thomas is quite literally the single living American I respect the most (aside from my own family, of course), I am inclined always to think his words are wise.

But I submit that the worst treatment of black people who think for themselves comes not from southern rednecks or northern liberal Chablis drinkers, but from . . . racist Southern blacks.

Just a little while ago, on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives, the black longtime state representative Alvin Holmes explained why he so dislikes Clarence Thomas: because “he’s married to a white woman.”
 
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