The Irony of Black Justice Clarence Thomas teaching civil rights at UT. ⚖️🗡️🩹

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Justice is portrayed as blind to symbolize impartiality: the blindfold on Lady Justice represents decisions based solely on evidence and law, not on wealth, status, race, or personal influence.

When Barack Obama became President...many Black folks thought that he should have done more for Black People. But President Obama was President for the People...not just Black people...He fought hard amidst a mighty storm blasting him from east, west, north and south. And he survived, scathed, gray haired...and worthy of the highest praise.

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The University of Texas School of Civic Leadership has tapped the U.S. Supreme Court justice to help teach a course on civil rights and the meaning of equality, starting next spring.

The university's recent announcement raises the obvious question: Just what civil rights story will the students be getting?  

Here we have a rather dark observation worthy of Dante: where Themis asks, "What is right?"...and Justitia asks, "What have you done?" ⚖️✨

Clarence Thomas is one of the least likely people you'd expect to teach civil rights. 

For decades, he has used his Supreme Court weight to oppose affirmative action, challenge federal voting rights protections and reject certain legal resolutions designed to address racial discrimination. 

Judicial Record vs. Teaching.

The irony is stark, when considered that Thomas is being asked to lead a seminar titled "Equality and the New Birth of Freedom", covering civil rights leaders like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.

I suspect that these men are outraged and turning in their graves...unable to drag Thomas down into the pits of Civil Rights Hell. Seeing what they lived and died for perverted to suit personal gains in order to fit into a certain mold.

SEWING NEWSLETTER: To Houston, With Joy....says:

There is something troubling about having students learn about the legacy of Douglass, Du Bois, King Jr. and others in the context of Thomas' own judicial record. While the civil rights movement fought to dismantle racial barriers and secure legal protections, Thomas has consistently challenged legal protections that helped fight racial discrimination and advance equality. 

In 1991, Thomas replaced the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that ended legal segregation in public schools. But Thomas has worked to undo many of Marshall's accomplishments. 

Could their contrasting views be a teaching opportunity and central to the course. And whose children are they teaching?

"The whole matter is insulting," said Pam Gaskin, a retired corporate executive and UT graduate. "It's just another attempt by Dan Patrick and the conservative movement in Texas to use our universities, and my university in particular, to do the things that they accuse the other side of doing. They're trying to indoctrinate an ideology."

Gaskin experienced the civil rights struggle firsthand at UT. Just weeks after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed, Gaskin stood on UT's campus as a freshman. She was one of some 125 Black students at the time and lived in segregated housing. She spent the next year going door-to-door with other students to register Black residents in East Austin to vote. 

She has written previously about how the word "indoctrination" has been misappropriated in efforts to restrict what can be taught in public colleges and universities. Indoctrination isn't exposing students to ideas that make people uncomfortable. It's teaching them to accept a set of ideas without question. 

Institutional Context:

The UT School of Civic Leadership, founded in 2023, is a conservative think tank aimed at countering "woke indoctrination," raising questions about the course's perspective and potential ideological influence.

Sounds like our Clarence will fit in nicely.

"Woke indoctrination" is a political and cultural term, not a neutral academic one.

Generally, people who use the phrase mean that they believe institutions such as schools, universities, corporations, governments, or media are actively teaching or promoting ideas associated with "wokeness" in a way they view as one-sided, coercive, or discouraging dissent.

The term "woke" originally arose in African American communities as a call to remain aware of racial injustice and social inequality. Over time, it broadened to include awareness of issues such as:

• Racism

• Sexism

• LGBTQ+ rights

• Social privilege

• Systemic discrimination

Critics may describe instruction or advocacy related to these topics as "woke indoctrination" when they believe:

• Alternative viewpoints are not fairly presented.

• Individuals are pressured to adopt particular beliefs.

• Political activism is being substituted for education.

Supporters of the same programs often reject the phrase, arguing that:

• The material is education rather than indoctrination.

• Teaching about historical and social inequalities is academically legitimate.

• Students are being exposed to information, not compelled to agree with it.

Because the phrase is highly charged, whether something constitutes "woke indoctrination" often depends on one's political, philosophical, or educational perspective.

In a neutral sense, indoctrination means teaching people to accept a set of beliefs uncritically, while education generally involves encouraging examination, evidence, discussion, and the possibility of disagreement. The debate is often about where a particular practice falls on that spectrum.

The question I have for Thomas is: What does it feel like to work your entire life in a lofty career, where you could have made a tremendous difference. Instead - you sold your soul for the chance to fit in. By compromising all that you should have stood for---You have become just another successful failure at life???? I bet you are just another narcissistic SOB who feels great about himself...not seeing or caring that you were a part of the problem - never caring to be a solution. I bet you fought hard against Barak...hoping that he would fail????

How could you work under the banner of Justice?

Good luck in Hell.

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Themis and Justitia (Lady Justice) are closely related figures who personify justice, law, and moral order.

Themis (Greek Mythology)

She represented. Natural law. Divine justice. Wisdom and prophecy

She was an advisor to Zeus and was renowned for her fairness and foresight.

In Greek art, Themis is often shown with: Scales. Sometimes a sword. Usually without a blindfold, because divine justice sees clearly.

Justitia (Roman Mythology)

• Justitia is the Roman goddess of Justice. She evolved partly from Greek concepts of justice, becoming the symbol used by courts and legal systems throughout the Western world.

The familiar image of Lady Justice typically bears three symbols:⚖️ Scales to weigh evidence fairly. 🗡️ Sword...The Authority and the power to enforce judgment. 🩹 Blindfold for Impartiality.

• Justice should not be influenced by wealth, status, power, race, or appearance.

Interestingly, the blindfold was added much later in European art. Ancient depictions often showed Justice with her eyes open.

Symbolically...You might think of them this way:

• Themis = the eternal, cosmic principle that there is a right order to things.

• Justitia = the practical application of justice in human society.

In a literary or gothic sense, Themis judges the soul according to the laws of the universe, while Justitia judges according to the laws of humanity.

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Some Quotes and some Ideas from article by - Joy Sewing of the Houston Chronicle.

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