[Fwd: Claremont Institute Precepts: To Be, or Not To Be: Ebony Magazine and the Non-Existence of Black Conservatives]

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Jun 21 06:55:21 PDT 2001


At 11:01 PM 6/19/01 -0400, Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema quotes:
>> The Claremont Institute--PRECEPTS |
| June 18, 2001
>> Visit <http://www.claremont.org> |

| No. 284
>>
>> Claremont Institute Precepts: To Be, or Not To Be: Ebony
>> Magazine and the Non-Existence of Black Conservatives
>>
>> By Michael Finch and Thomas Krannawitter
>> But then there is Clarence Thomas, who grew up in the Jim
>> Crow South, came from a background of poverty and a broken
>> family, and now sits on the U.S. Supreme Court. And he
>> happens to be black. But Ebony magazine thinks Justice
>> Thomas is not among the most influential Black Americans.
>>
>> Scanning the pages of Ebony, one is struck by the fact that
>> Justice Thomas' name does not appear. Anywhere. He is not
>> even mentioned in the article preceding the list of the
>> 100. It's as if he does not exist. Which of course is
>> exactly the point.
>>

Who said that members of the so-called supreme court (or political appointees in general) have to be influential? By the same logic, Adolf Hitler was one of the most influential whites.

wojtek



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