The ongoing insult will always be the conservative Clarence Thomas' much stated opposition to affirmative action, when he is one of the most high-profile examples of affirmative action in the nation's history.
The "crime" of Thomas' supplanting of Marshall has nothing to do with filling a "black seat" on the court. If it was a designated "seat" to be filled at all, it was a seat for a fighter, a liberator of poor and powerless people, which Marshall was. In that sense, it was a seat that had ultimately more to do with class than with race.
That seat was stolen, and Thomas sits in it today for one reason and one reason alone, the color of his skin. If that's a case for martyrdom, it was Thurgood Marshall's legacy that was martyred.
And that legacy is now being trampled on by the likes of Ginni Thomas' Liberty Central.
For the original article, go to This Can't Be Happening at: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/267
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