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A Color-blind Supreme Court? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Asa Gordon |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 1,977 Words, 12,518 Characters |
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Frederick Douglass, in response to a "color-blind" civil rights ruling by a conservative Supreme Court 121 years ago, delivered a message lost on Justice Clarence Thomas and his dissenting minority in Gutter v. Bollinger, decided June 23, 2003. "It is our lot to live among a people whose laws, traditions, and prejudices have been against us for centuries, and from these they are not yet free," observed Douglass. "To assume that they are free from these evils simply because they have changed their laws is to assume what is utterly unreasonable and contrary to facts. Large bodies move slowly. Individuals may be converted on the instant and change their whole course of life. Nations never. Time and events are required for the conversion of nations."
Douglass' poignant outburst proved to be...
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... be accepted within the conservative ranks and to be treated with some degree of acceptance, a black was required to become a caricature of sorts, providing sideshows of anti-black quips and attacks."
Justice Thomas' verbal caricature of Frederick Douglass in his Grutter dissent demonstrates that he is still willing to engage in these demeaning sideshows from the bench of the Supreme Court.
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