Search for “Clarence Thomas black nationalism” on Google.
I listened to a podcast a year or so back about the absolutely bonkers precepts behind his political philosophy (sadly, he’s not the empty vessel he appears to be from his statements on the Supreme Court) and they are far afield of what our highest judiciary should be influenced by.
Black nationalism is the belief that black people cannot and should never live in an integrated society and that they should exist separately in their own communities and their own institutions. An extreme form is black separatism. Key to this is the idea that whites in power, especially liberal whites, act as benevolent gatekeepers to society. It’s related to the idea of the Great White Savior that exists in lazy art-making (I’m looking at you, La La Land and The Help) and as stereotyped college liberals. Black nationalism encompasses more than just cultural preservation and pride, but a demand for a physical separation of the races. This stems from the false assumption that coexistence is not possible because it will force blacks to abandon their culture.
“I never worshiped at the altar” of integration, he declared, five years after joining the Court. As he told Juan Williams, who wrote a profile of Thomas in The Atlantic, “The whole push to assimilate simply does not make sense to me.” It is a loss that Thomas has set out—from his early years as a young black nationalist on the left to his tenure as a conservative on the Court—to reverse.
Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race, The New Yorker, 10 Sep 2019
Pair this black nationalism with his wife’s actions. (Ignoring the inscrutable fact that he used to be anti-mixed race marriage and that this Roe decision will very likely lead to laws against the blacks marrying white. I can’t believe I actually had to type that sentence in 2022.) Ginni Thomas’s QAnon batshittery revealed in texts to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and emails to ex-clerk to Judge Thomas John Eastman (and many other actions online and in person) brings her husband’s actions on the court and non-recusals into a new, terrifying light. And the other justices will do nothing. In the words of a Teen Vogue op-ed: “the current Supreme Court is illegitimate.”
When Teen Vogue, ostensibly a fashion magazine, is more boldly honest than any sources in the mainstream media, we’re in for a rough ride.
George Conway, speaking with Molly Jong-Fast (no relation to Kim Jong Un) pre-John Eastman revelations stated that the criticism of the Justice based on his wife’s actions was “one of the greatest examples of legal malfeasance” that he has ever encountered. I wonder where he is at now.