A Rebuttal To: "How about getting a Black person on the Supreme Court?" By James Clingman Jr.

How about getting a Black person on the Supreme Court? -- May 2010 By James Clingman Jr

With all due respect Mr Clingman:

A person or a faction within a group of people who dares make such a statement deserves to have their ideologically based slight against a Black man responded to just as President Barack Obama has done:  IGNORE YOUR PLEAS for he knows that you are not going anywhere.

It stands to reason that your closing question has an appropriate answer:

Q: By the way, who is the next white guy scheduled to retire, Scalia or Thomas?

A: You don't need any more "Blacks who are favorable to you.   Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sufficiently traffics in "Black inferiority" to your liking.  If Brother Justice Clarence Thomas can have his blackness stripped from him then logic holds that a non-Black woman who's viewpoints matches your own can receive a coating of burnt cork as such.


It is amazing to me that despite the fact that Brother Justice Clarence Thomas represents only 1/9th of power on the court those who are filled with ideological hatred that passes for racial resolve can't bring themselves to consider the vast array of other operatives that they have actively promoted for the defense of our community yet they still grieve despite the presence of these cogs in the machine.

• Clarence Thomas has not packed the "Cook County jail" full with Black people - inmates and prison guards.  There are some municipal court judges who weighed the evidence and sent them forth.
• Clarence Thomas has no say in the city of Philadelphia where the same political machine that fights the "injustice" in the system for Black defendants as they support public defenders also promoted Seth Williams - the Black District Attorney in the history of the city, into office.  Despite locking up his fair share of Black people, DA Williams won't be attacked as Clarence Thomas is.
• In Fulton County Georgia there is a District Attorney who, unlike Clarence Thomas is slow on the draw in advancing capital punishment for Black people.  Unfortunately while the legal system gives such a break - the Street Pirates who murder several Black people each week in "the city too busy to hate" don't seem to be so appreciative.  Quite possibly DA Paul Howard needs to show as much respect to them as they show to the Black community?

You see Prof Clingman I get the feeling that these attacks on Brother Justice Clarence Thomas are done out of ideological bigotry, intolerance, hatred and a vast sense of frustration that despite all that the Black Progressive-Fundamentals have done to install people favorable to them into power - our basic community interests remain in peril.

So frequently the Black Progressive-Fundamentalists like to focus on the "offenses" of Clarence Thomas.  He as a conservative - "thinks like White people" and thus does not have the Black people's interests in mind.  The problem is, Mr Clingman , is that there are too few occasions by which your favored Leftist judges are "put on trial".  

In my view Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a bigger enemy of the interests of conscious Black people than anything that you can tag upon Brother Justice Clarence Thomas.  In my view Clarence Thomas has the audacity to base the relevant judicial rulings upon the notion that "Black people are equal under the law".   This is very problematic to Black Progressive-Fundamentalists who transact their business based upon the inferior state of Black people - per our historical experiences and the present violations of our 'social justice'.  

Thus upon hearing a Black man who was convicted of murder, his victim decaying in the grave and yet a "Barry Sheck-type" character comes along years after the fact and realizes that the prosecutor did not have enough Black people on the jury.  A judge more to your liking will 'expand the crime tape around the murder scene' to include the court proceedings.  Without ever questioning the actual guilt of murder they make use of this one "Murderer who is Black" to advance some other agenda items.  Justice of the murder victim's family be damned.  The fact that a judge who thinks like Clarence Thomas, who refused to provide more police tape - is problematic.

With these "untethered activists" not on the hook to directly address the present day slaughter of Black people on the streets, being force to dismiss their "boil the ocean" solutions - they are free spirits, allowed to haunt and spit upon the name and dignity of Clarence Thomas, without ever having to note how their own theories lead to the conditions that create these "killing fields" for Black people.

But what of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?   She is more fitting to your tastes, no doubt.   In the "Ricci vs DeStefano" (New Haven Firefighters case) Ginsburg penned a tale of Black inferiority more masterfully than I heard most Black people who think as such have ever done.   I question if Ginsburg - or the Black Leadership - will ever come upon the recognition that "Black people are Equal Human Beings" and should be treated like this under the law.  Great damage will have been done to our interests until this level of consciousness is obtained.

In preparation for this post, Prof Clingman, I read a few other articles penned by you.  In one you argue that we should not "support our enemies" while "shunning our friends".   With all due respect I question if you are aware of our friends and enemies (at times).    While Clarence Thomas gets a heaping helping of attack - those who are accepted and promoted as "our friends", gaining increasing control over our institutions go unchallenged.

At least for me, Prof. Clingman - my "enemy" is a consciousness of spirit rather than an adversarial race or political party.  I look at the results, not the intended results or the compatibility of the methodology to my preferences.   The enemy's face will show itself after we consider our condition, 20 to 40 years after being immersed within, and noting the resulting competencies of our people that have been developed as a result.

Using this as my measure - indeed we are "supporting our enemies" per our present distribution of attacks and praise.

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