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...black and white, deserve better than this. In every previous generation, black America has produced leaders who brought out the best in their countrymen--people like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall and, of course, King, who broadened the American Dream by insisting that it applied in equal measure to everyone. Farrakhan and Chavis would substitute a cramped and insular nightmare for that all-encompassing and inspiring vision. Any march they lead is bound to be a journey to nowhere...
Coleman, a protege of Justice Thurgood Marshall, wrote legal briefs for Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case in which "separate but equal" racial segregation was declared unconstitutional...
...good that the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., and other African Americans have finally recognized Thomas for what he is, but where were they during the confirmation hearings? Many prominent blacks were well aware that Thomas was unfit to follow in Thurgood Marshall's footsteps; very few had the temerity to come out and say it. If Justice Marshall could see who is occupying the seat on the Supreme Court that he held so honorably, he would be spinning in his grave. JUDY LIND Riverdale, New York...
...slasher, Bill the waffler and Jesse the crank -- Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the "black seat" vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely the kind of racial preference he goes to such lengths to excoriate. And as long...
...what is Thomas accused of? Behaving crudely toward Anita Hill. Either it never happened, or it was so minor that it did not matter to Hill at the time. Either way, the accusation provides no basis for destroying a Justice who has every bit as much ability as Thurgood Marshall, an earthy man himself, and many other Justices...