This troubling article reflects my own unthinking attitudes, I'm afraid. Why don't I like Justice Thomas? Well, I really DON'T think he's a very good jurist (no one left on this Supreme Court really IS much good) but the gut level fury is exactly what this author says; Thomas has no RIGHT to express and act on views that vary from MY white liberal conception of what black people should say and do. Ditto for Rice. What the article doesn't stress, though, is the enormous power wielded by black and white people through manipulating the idea of victimhood. It seems to me that the emergence of strong dissenting Black voices is a sign that this country really HAS made progress toward racial equality. I've seen HUGE changes in my lifetime (I was born in 1954).
I agree here. We are certainly a nation of folks who play the victim and feel they have certain entitlements.
Bill Cosby, Ed.D., is making a LOT of people angry by pointing out that America offers opportunity for EVERYONE. Jim Crow is dead. (Thank God and the U.S. Supreme Court, not necessarily in that order)
Quite a different Cosby from his angry days in the '60s when he punched out Tommy Smothers for congratulating him on I Spy.
Oh, and another observation...the Supreme Court in outlawing racial discrimination in education was quite ACTIVIST. The Democratic Congress had nearly a century to do it and refused due to the entrenched racism of Southerners (and not a few Northerners as well). In 1954, the law of the land was States'Rights and separate but "equal". Is there ANYONE out there who thinks the Court was wrong?
