Smithsonian on Why Clarence Thomas is Not in New African American Museum: ‘We Cannot Tell Every Stor

[redleghunter]

Title: Smithsonian on Why Clarence Thomas is Not in New African American Museum: ‘We Cannot Tell Every Story’

From: CNS News

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/

Author: Penny Starr

Excerpt:

(CNSNews.com) – The new Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s tagline is “powerful moments in African American history, culture, and community.” However, the museum – with a $540 million price tag funded 50 percent by U.S. taxpayers and with a collection of more than 36,000 artifacts and 100,000 people represented – doesn’t include many prominent blacks, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Edward Brooke, a Republican who became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote in 1966.

Quote:

“There are many compelling personal stories about African Americans who have become successful in various fields, and, obviously, Associate Justice Thomas is one of them,” St. Thomas said in an email. “However, we cannot tell every story in our inaugural exhibitions."

More at link:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/

 

[SummerMadness]

I wish these people knew how to do research. Edward Brooke was not conservative.

Republican != Conservative

The liberal Republican Party died in the 1960s, Edward Brooke was a liberal.

 

[redleghunter]

I wish these people knew how to do research. Edward Brooke was not conservative.

Republican != Conservative

The liberal Republican Party died in the 1960s, Edward Brooke was a liberal.

And because of the tag "R" he was left out. As with Thomas...he was appointed by a Republican and he is a strict constructionist. Regardless of leanings, being the first African American on the SCOTUS should at least get him somewhere on a wall there as 'first ever.'

 

[SummerMadness]

And because of the tag "R" he was left out. As with Thomas...he was appointed by a Republican and he is a strict constructionist. Regardless of leanings, being the first African American on the SCOTUS should at least get him somewhere on a wall there as 'first ever.'

You can keep constructing whatever story you want, but neither of them were the first black of their respective profession.

Your allusion to him being the first African American Supreme Court Justice, really?

Thurgood Marshall | Biography

Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice, Judge, Lawyer (1908–1993)

Born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, Thurgood Marshall studied law at Howard University. As counsel to the NAACP, he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, and served for 24 years. He died in Maryland on January 24, 1993.

 

[Uncle Siggy]

he is a strict constructionist

Which we need at least 4 more on the SCOTUS...

 

[VanillaSunflowers]

Or, maybe Smithsonian doesn't want to tell the story of a racist perjurer who none the less obtained a lifetime seat on SCOTUS after the fact.

Maybe too that's why he's silent Clarence now that he's there. I watched the hearings in full. I couldn't believe he got the post. But afterwards once he'd been sworn in and was in the robes, when he proved he'd perjured himself on the prior abortion question before the hearing committee, where he said he had no opinion about Roe V. Wade/abortion, and then said he was pro-life once he was sworn into the SCOTUS, that was despicable.

He demonstrated he's a racist, a race baiter, and a liar/perjurer. And if Anita Hill is to be believed, which I do, given Thomas's behaviors of depraved character before the hearing committee, in my opinion Smithsonian committed to a public service. Clarence doesn't deserve to be on the bench of the SCOTUS. He certainly doesn't deserve to be memorialized at Smithsonian.

This before the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Thomas is a shame sitting on the bench of the highest court in the land. I for one as a black woman who is pro-life am glad Smithsonian didn't let him in. He shouldn't have been allowed to sit the court.

You Tube collection of confirmation hearings Clarence Thomas

 

[Arcangl86]

Link is dead. Also the museum doesn't seem to include Carol Moseley Braun who is the first AA woman Senator.

 

[redleghunter]

Odd it worked earlier.



http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...-prominent-conservative-african-americans-not

 

[Uncle Siggy]

Odd it worked earlier.

That's Net Neutrality for you...

 

[cow451]

Odd it worked earlier.

You mean when Clarence Thomas was the first Black member of SCOTUS?

 

[ModCon]

They don't want free thinking inspirational people in the museum. They want people that only think like everyone else.

 

[RDKirk]

They don't want free thinking inspirational people in the museum. They want people that only think like everyone else.

It's hard to know what Thomas thinks.

 

[cow451]

They don't want free thinking inspirational people in the museum. They want people that only think like everyone else.

Now, let's see.... Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, the Tuskegee Airmen... they were only "thinking like everyone else....."??????

 

[SummerMadness]

The problem with these complaints is they start with a conclusion and proceed to ignore any information to the contrary.