Note to Clarence Thomas: No one can make you feel inferior without your permission

An Open Letter To Clarence Thomas:

I've just finished reading, Justice Thomas, that you view the law degree you earned from Yale Law School as only being worth 15 cents. So for what it's worth, here's my 2 cents on your "15 cents" law degree.

You place the blame squarely at Yale's affirmative action policies, for the difficulty you experienced in finding a job after you graduated from Yale. And you state that soon after arriving at Yale Law School, you began to feel that you were only there because of your race, and that you started loading up on tougher classes, to prove to yourself that you were not inferior to your White counterparts.

And with all due respect, it seems to me that the problem here is not affirmative action. It's your insecurity. As Eleanor Roosevelt once noted, no one can make you feel inferior without your permission. If you don't understand the value-add that you bring to the table, how do you expect anyone else to recognize it?

You stated "I learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much any one denied it. I'd graduated from one of America's top law schools, but racial preference had robbed my achievement of its true value."

Newflash, Justice Thomas! Not much has changed since you graduated from Yale. There are far too many African-Americans with college educations, who still have a hard time finding employment commensurate with their knowledge, skills and abilities. It's a sad reality that in the workplace today, there are still instances where non-college educated Caucasians, are able to advance faster than their college-educated African-American counterparts. Does that somehow cheapen or devalue their degree? I would argue unequivocally, NO!

What I would suggest that it means, is that we still have a long way to go to level the playing field, and that affirmative action, used properly, is a corrective action that can right past wrongs.

of those who employed lawyers. That those doing the hiring were racist. That those doing the hiring were so racist that they couldn't see the value of a Yale degree because it was held by a black man.

So, I fail to see how preventing him from attending Yale would've helped him or any other minorities.

I just don't get his point.

so for him to suggest his degree was worthless or wouldn't land him a job is just plain bullshit.

he hates the color of his skin

His view of the world is so distorted as to be no more interesting to me than spit on the sidewalk.

He loves his Master better than he loves himself.