Clarence Thomas grew up in segregated Georgia but now votes policies against his Black experiences

Echo opinion letter about "Uncle Thomas", published in the Washington Spectator:

Clarence Thomas is a hopeless Uncle Tom, a stooge for white conservatives and a hypocrite. The depths of his hypocrisy can be
seen when one considers that he grew up in segregated Pinpoint, Georgia at a time when Georgia crackers did all they could to suppress and dehumanize black folk.

However, he was fortunate to come along in an era when black civil rights pioneers had paved the way for more open minority college admissions (affirmative action), and he was admitted to Holy Cross and later to Yale Law School.

But for affirmative action, Thomas would have had little chance of admission to Holy Cross and no chance of admission to Yale Law School where he admittedly struggled.

His Yale Law School credential nonetheless likely helped him win important Republican sponsorship for senior government positions, culminating in a US Supreme Court seat.

Thomas was thus a classic beneficiary of affirmative action❗ Even he has admitted that.

He escaped the poverty and racial oppression of his youth and obtained a first-rate education; yet instead of using his good fortune to help other young black folk achieve the same opportunities that he had, Thomas shamelessly became an arch enemy of
affirmative action and a water carrier for white conservatives who seek to turn back the clock on black educational and career progress, women’s reproductive choice, black voting access and the like. 

 And he’s apparently so much under the influence of white
conservatives that he’s failed to take action to temper his wife’s participation in extreme right wing causes—her high-profile advocacy has already created the appearance of a
conflict of interest for him and will continue to do so as January 6, and other conservative pet peeve cases come before the Supreme Court.

Clarence Thomas, whom I long ago dubbed Uncle Thomas, has thus taken Uncle Tomism to new heights. He’s shown no evidence of having black pride or a sense of the myriad struggles that black folk and women have suffered through in this country.

What he has shown is self-hate and hopeless attempts to whitewash himself and escape his racial identity. The problem is that he can run but he can’t hide. So long as "Uncle Thomas" doesn’t respect himself, and remember his own roots in racist Georgia, the white conservatives won’t respect him either. And that likely includes his wife- (right wing extremist Ginni Thomas). 

They’ll just shamelessly use him as a hapless pawn to further their narrow political interests.

James T. Breedlove in Philadelphia, PA