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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,073 posts)
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:30 PM Nov 2020

Joy Reid Labels Justice Clarence Thomas 'Uncle Clarence'

MSNBC contributor Joy Reid referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Clarence,” invoking a racial slur during an early-Wednesday panel on the election.

The panel, led by anchor Rachel Maddow, was discussing the possibility that legal challenges to vote counts in crucial swing states would end up in the Supreme Court. Republican senators managed to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Court last week, cementing a 6-3 majority of conservative justices.


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If “somehow” vote counts are legally challenged and cases “end up in the Supreme Court, do any of you guys trust uncle Clarence and Amy Coney Barrett and those guys to actually follow the letter of the law? No!” Reid said, repurposing the “Uncle Tom” slur against Justice Thomas. “I mean, it is a completely politicized Supreme Court, [and] you can’t just trust that they’re going to do the right thing.”

Reid has a history of controversial remarks, including homophobic statements and supporting 9/11 conspiracy theories. In September, Reid also lashed out at Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron by saying he put his party before his identity as a black man.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/msnbc-joy-reid-labels-justice-150310965.html

I don't think she's the first to make that kind of inference to Thomas.
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Joy Reid Labels Justice Clarence Thomas 'Uncle Clarence' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
Somehow, I think an AA referring to another AA in this way is hard to consider "racist." hlthe2b Nov 2020 #1
I don't either. VA_Jill Nov 2020 #4
That's nicer than what I call him gratuitous Nov 2020 #2
In fairness, maybe Joy's reference was to Uncle Ruckus! Tanuki Nov 2020 #3
Thank you Joy saidsimplesimon Nov 2020 #5
There is nothing controversial about calling an avowed race traitor like Thomas an Uncle Tom Tarc Nov 2020 #6

hlthe2b

(101,714 posts)
1. Somehow, I think an AA referring to another AA in this way is hard to consider "racist."
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:32 PM
Nov 2020

But, ya know, I'm just supposing. IMO, if the "shoe fits," but I just refer to Clarence and his "lovely" wife as deplorable in every way.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. That's nicer than what I call him
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:51 PM
Nov 2020

The Supreme Court as currently constituted keeps drifting further and further from the letter of the law to reach conclusions and rulings that suit them and their antinomian ways. Whatever a Democratic Congress enacts, the Supreme Court is there to nullify it with some outré interpretation courtesy of the Federalist Society.

Tarc

(10,472 posts)
6. There is nothing controversial about calling an avowed race traitor like Thomas an Uncle Tom
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 04:32 PM
Nov 2020

I'm fully behind Reid here.

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