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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Justice Clarence Thomas: A National Treasure
Description: It’s fitting the Supreme Court abolished affirmative action right before Independence Day. Holding that every college applicant deserves to be evaluated as an individual, not as a member of a racial group, the Court affirmed the guarantee of equality set out in the Declaration of Independence. In a 58-page concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas delivers a statement for the ages. Himself a product of the Jim Crow South, he writes, “This vision of meeting social racism with government-imposed racism is self-defeating, resulting in a never-ending cycle of victimization.” Justice Thomas affirmed the existence of a colorbl...