A Combination of White supremacists and Clarence Thomas

It is ironically appropriate that a statue of Clarence Thomas may be erected alongside half a dozen White Supremacists on the Georgia capitol grounds. Georgia Republicans in the Senate voted to erect the statute in “honor” of what may be the Supreme Court’s most racially duplicitous ‘justice.’

(The vote was on party lines with 32 Republicans voting for it and 20 Democrats voting against the proposal. It now goes to the House.)

To add some perspective to just how ridiculous this move is, consider this. A statue honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was only erected on the Georgia capitol grounds less than six years ago in 2017 — half a century after the famed civil rights leader was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Now, the politicians want to honor Thomas who is on the record as opposing many of the civil rights laws and rulings of the court and that Dr. King fought for. As chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), he made fun of civil rights leaders who “bitch, bitch, bitch, moan and whine.”

Despite his claims that he pulled himself “up by his own bootstraps,” Thomas was the beneficiary of those rulings. The fact that he benefited from affirmative action while he now decries it is so ridiculously duplicitous that he’s been labeled the “poster boy for affirmative action.”

Nobody needs to be reminded of him leading SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade. He has signaled that he also wants SCOTUS to reconsider its opinions protecting same sex relationships. That is another irony since same sex marriage rulings were also part of the civil rights movement that fostered inter-racial marriages. Ironic since he’s married to a White woman.

Wife Ginni Thomas encouraged the January 6th riots and is a strong supporter of Donald Trump. Despite this obvious conflict of interest, Clarence Thomas has refused to recuse himself from such cases. When the Supreme Court voted to turn over some of Trump’s papers to the congressional panel investigating the riot, Thomas was the only one who voted against it, and gave no explanation why.

There are six statues on the capitol grounds honoring White supremacists. They include:

John Brown Gordon who was a Confederate general who became governor and a U.S. Senator and who led the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia.

Eugene Talmaddge who while governor backed a voting system that disenfranchised Black voters even though the Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional. His son who also served as governor and was equally racist also has a statue there.

Richard Russell who was senator for 38 years from 1933 to 1971 and who managed to block civil rights legislation proposals for that whole time.

It’s hard not to say Thomas will fit right in with them.

Besides the statue of Dr. King, there is also a statue called “Expelled Because of Color” which recognizes the black Georgia politicians who were expelled from the legislature because of their race.

It’s hard not to say Thomas would not fit right in with them.