Stephen A. Crockett Jr. is the Opinion Editor at HuffPost. His opinionated work began around the age of seven when he argued successfully that the Boy Scouts was not a group he needed to belong to. His previous work has appeared on The Root, The Washington Post, and the San Jose Mercury News.
It’s 2006, and the Arizona Cardinals might as well be called the “Arizona Trash Cans,” because their play on the field had been stinking up the place. They were 1-4 and set to face the Chicago Bears, who were the darlings of the league with a 5-0 record on Monday Night Football. Two Black head coaches were facing off against each other, Chicago’s Lovie Smith and Arizona’s Dennis Green, and Smith’s comments about a preseason game in which the Cardinals won was getting under Green’s skin.
A Black woman once again tried to save America from itself, but America doesn’t care about Black women.Having followed the infallible Thurgood Marshall onto the Supreme Court, Thomas had all the intangibles needed to become a freedom fighter. He grew up dirt-poor in South Carolina and initially wanted to become a priest, until he realized the Catholic church was full of racism.
And then Thomas made it onto the Supreme Court, and promptly began kowtowing to an old order. It’s like Thomas no longer had a need for his Blackness, which at that point had become more a burden than a badge.and the man that sits on the bench today. And you know who doesn’t care? Thomas. Both Thomas and his wife have been allowed to continue living their hauntingly boring lives by simply feigning sympathy or ignorance, or both. Ginni Thomas claimed that she regrets sending the texts, and Clarence Thomas notes that despite twenty years of courting by some of the wealthiest Republicans in the world, he didn’t think he needed to disclose any of it because he’d received some bad ethics advice.
Funny how a man who supposedly despises reparations had no problem accepting handouts from billionaire friends. Thomas didn’t put in extra hours at work or find a nighttime job to help put his grandnephew through school. Nope, he took all the free money he could get his hands on. Thomas’ admission into Yale was one of the university’s first after they created an affirmative action program — the same program that Thomas effectively gutted as soon as he could.
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