Clarence Thomas is a black nationalist

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  • Опубліковано 29 кві 2023
  • Long before Clarence Thomas sat on the Supreme Court of the United States of America, he was a self-described Black nationalist. Today, he is a champion of far-right ideology and jurisprudence, but I think he still holds onto many of the same ideas. The problem, in my opinion, is where he lands. His solutions are very different from the Black nationalists of the past and present.
    #clarencethomas #supremecourt #scotus #mlk #malcolmx
    I set out to make this video because I wanted to understand Clarence Thomas better, and boy... I learned a lot. Enjoy!
    H/t to Corey Robin. His book on Clarence Thomas set me down this path. You can buy a copy here: amzn.to/446ITBQ (Affiliate link)
    I'm on Instagram: / garrisonh
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  • @frederickwelham3829
    @frederickwelham3829 2 місяці тому +539

    Clarence Thomas is whatever Harland Crow tells him to be.

    • @michaeldeaton
      @michaeldeaton 2 місяці тому +10

      Bingo.

    • @VHSGreg
      @VHSGreg 2 місяці тому +4

      😂

    • @CharlesLee-es8jr
      @CharlesLee-es8jr 2 місяці тому

      What collective self sufficiency have Black people achieved in 50 years? 😂

    • @CharlesLee-es8jr
      @CharlesLee-es8jr 2 місяці тому +3

      Just a cheap and easy to satisfy voting block for the Democrat Party.😂

    • @MrSamres
      @MrSamres 2 місяці тому

      @@CharlesLee-es8jr This has nothing to do with Democrats. While I disagree with the title of this article and think it's disrespectful to Black nationalist, the subject is about Clarence Thomas's policies now, compared to when he appeared to (pretended to...if he ever did) care for Black folks. Any man who tries to get 2 framed Black men executed and uses the U.S. constitution as an excuse tells anyone all they need to know about him.

  • @enikata7349
    @enikata7349 2 місяці тому +86

    So essentially he developed a "if you can't beat them, join them and get whatever I can out of it for myself" kind of attitude.

  • @eric2500
    @eric2500 2 місяці тому +351

    Hating him won't help anything, but impeaching him and convicting him for corruption sure would!

    • @paulrodgers252
      @paulrodgers252 2 місяці тому +5

      corruption is a civil thing not a military Thing; to convict will take 67 Senators (if all are present to vote); not going to happen in this political climate;

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому +1

      Biden?

    • @paulrodgers252
      @paulrodgers252 2 місяці тому

      @@imperialmotoring3789he on that side (A-I) since he is a civil since civil or military is established in Amendment XIV Section 3; Trump is military;
      civil or military;
      (A-I) or (J-Z);
      corruption or no corruption or corruption: no;
      Biden or Trump;
      demo c rat or Republican (Article IV Section 4);

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому

      @@paulrodgers252 Protect each State from invasion (Article 4 Section 4)

    • @paulrodgers252
      @paulrodgers252 2 місяці тому

      @@imperialmotoring3789obviously, you suffer from dyslexia which is Trait of a civil (not military; weak and worthless); see civil C: -10 to - 1; u for got: Republican; it is Invasion (military Word Form) not invasion (civil word form);
      military see: -10 to -1 CO 1 to 10; both sides!!! I am military Military Commission ordain Officer; I chuse not to include: Militia and Republican; chuse is Constitution established Word and is military since there is: chose (civil) or chuse (military);

  • @starfix2052
    @starfix2052 2 місяці тому +61

    Knowing what I now know about his 'benefactors', I wonder who's speaking when I see old video of Clarence Thomas talking.

  • @jayc21
    @jayc21 2 місяці тому +167

    He’s actually a Hotep. Like, seriously. There was a season on Slow Burn (Apple Podcast) on him and it tracks as Hotep ideology. He dropped out of seminary and adopted the language and look of the Panthers in college. He literally used to harass interracial couples on the campus of Holy Cross while he was a student, he was one of the founders of the BSU at the university. Then in law school, he started adopting conservative views, went to work for John Danforth and aligned himself with the Claremont Institute, and became a full fledged Regan republican. He did all of that in the span of 15 years, or so. From a black radical to a card carrying conservative hellbent on destroying the social and civil rights gains of the 20th century. This man literally help kill Affirmative Action and help gut the VRA.

    • @henrykemka2164
      @henrykemka2164 2 місяці тому +20

      All that for a "better life" and to be accepted by his masters as a "good and obliging servant". Clarence Thomas Iscariot

    • @tombirmingham7033
      @tombirmingham7033 2 місяці тому

      interesting, he was later in the Life Spring Cult with his wife. My friend was kidnapped and tortured at one of their camps in Somoa. (google survivors of paradise cove).
      these are mostly zionist messianic cults. if he was a hotep and he was getting into pyramid power shit it would explain how he fell deep into masonic doomsday cults and into the service of the Antichrist. BTW i hold the belief that the antichrist is a living breathing person, much like the pope, and is the head of a cult created by sabbatti Tzevi but was continued on by men like Jacob Frank and Basil Zarahoff. There is no reason to believe that this organization is no longer with us. Anyways, so the antichrist's force control the Jesuits and most of the world now. We are getting ready for some endtimes stuff because they're doomsday cultists and satanists. So buckle up kids. LOL hey btw, if you're a good guy and you read this go and read on John Dee and his 5 books of mystery.

    • @marklee2412
      @marklee2412 Місяць тому +1

      Honest question,
      What are “the social and civil rights gains of the 20th century? “

    • @jayc21
      @jayc21 Місяць тому +14

      @@marklee2412 the Civil Right Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, Roe v. Wade, Obergefell v. Ohio, Griswold v Connecticut. The first three are basic civil rights for everyone in this country fought for by black folks in America. Roe is bodily and reproductive freedom. Griswold is the right to contraception. Obergefell is same sex marriage. In his major opinion and concurrence for Roe, Thomas suggested that the Supreme Court reevaluate past rulings that the current court believes were wrongly decided. He called them by name. He doesn’t have the hair on his ass, as neither do the rest of the conservatives on the court to kill the landmark Civil Rights cases, but they’ll weaken them to be unenforceable. This week, The 5th Circuit sent a case to the Supreme Court that could invalidate the entirety of VRA. The only case he doesn’t believe was decided incorrectly Loving v. Virginia, because that affects him and his interracial marriage. But, if you read his dissent in Obergefell, he made arguments that could be used to invalidate Loving v. Virginia!

    • @prettyenzo.thefox
      @prettyenzo.thefox Місяць тому +1

      a hotep w a yt wife?

  • @LeafInTheWind88
    @LeafInTheWind88 8 місяців тому +55

    I watched a documentary about his life and at one point he was against interracial marriages, in which ironically he’s in one himself. Someone close to him said that he found such relationships appalling and didn’t understand why would one want to do it.

    • @carolannerobinson8351
      @carolannerobinson8351 3 місяці тому +25

      A complicated guy for sure. I have viewed him as someone who has internalized racism. I certainly could be wrong but his decisions and rulings have led me to believe this.

    • @Sheshe661972
      @Sheshe661972 2 місяці тому +6

      To put it in layman's terms, he's a complete nut job!

    • @3namechangezalowdevry90day7
      @3namechangezalowdevry90day7 2 місяці тому +3

      Extremists go from one extreme to the other, while moderates stay in the center.

    • @coderamen666
      @coderamen666 2 місяці тому

      ​@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7I would argue differently. Leftists that aren't considered moderate often remain consistent through their lifetime

    • @Testimony_Of_JTF
      @Testimony_Of_JTF 2 місяці тому +2

      Those relationships were actually also opposed by many minority groups, especially the more ethnocentric ones like native Americans.

  • @sirguys2469
    @sirguys2469 Рік тому +126

    The mindset that "I've got mine. You need to get yours!" is and has been a hindrance to the rise of our people collectively. Individual examples of success are tempered by reality. Thomas had significant help and benefitted from programs and rulings that he not seems to want to reverse for others. He has rich white benefactors, so while he decries the bigotry within the system, he partakes of the spoils of those who get the best justice money can buy. His lack of ethics with regards to his wife's participation in the Jan. 6yh insurrection, his support of the most right leaning of the Supreme Court justices and his stance of "acceptability" show him to be a hypocrite. It has nothing to do with Black nationalism. Dr. King wasn't a Black nationalist, yet he saw the need for a collective effort of the grassroots and other members of the Black populace to work toward real change and equity. It is how we as a people have always risen above adversity. Thomas takes the individual as opposed to the community/collective solution that works for HIM but leaves others behind.

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 Рік тому +13

      he got his through the system he wants to destroy
      he is a token

    • @tuberific454
      @tuberific454 9 місяців тому +3

      I don't think he was saying that MLK was a black nationalist. His chart shows that Dr. King was a centrist "collectivist." But really that appears to be a mislabeled political compass chart. The bottom half should read libertarian and the top authoritarian. In any case, I think what he means to say is that CT is a conservative nationalist who is black. Otherwise, the term black nationalist alludes to CT wanting black hegemony, which in actuality isn't the case for either CT or MLK.

    • @alliwishis_2
      @alliwishis_2 3 місяці тому +7

      This is real talk here I believe when Martin Luther King and Malcolm X passed on he just simply just dropped everything and ending up quitting everything just like Antonio Brown did with football now I believe all he's got is a philosophy of "just do for self " "God only helps those who help themselves " and lastly " those aren't my kids soo l don't have to care about anybody else "
      Just nothing but a two-faced loser and one big quitter
      To me he just gives up way too easy

    • @ruthmercedez3390
      @ruthmercedez3390 2 місяці тому +7

      He is corrupt.

    • @cheshirecat1212
      @cheshirecat1212 2 місяці тому +1

      Your first sentence summarises neoliberalism.

  • @r1madbrit
    @r1madbrit 2 місяці тому +182

    The blatant corruption of Thomas is disturbing, but, like Trump, he doesn't care what people think or what's right or wrong. Openly for sale it seems. Very articulate and thought provoking video Garrison.

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому

      Biden isn't for sale though. He sent his son to collect love not bribes.

    • @JackDSquat
      @JackDSquat Місяць тому

      You should never care what people think you should just do the right thing

  • @brianroyster7510
    @brianroyster7510 2 місяці тому +221

    There is nothing defensible or redeeming about that horrible man. Being a sellout is the nicest thing that can be said about the hypocrite. He hides behind a lie of "true black natioalism" while he's steppin and fetchin for the collectivism of billionaires and giant corporations!
    That's probably inappropriate for me to say but this particular criminal really pisses me off. There's only a few people that I hold more disdain for than uncle Thomas.

    • @kevinsiu4956
      @kevinsiu4956 2 місяці тому +35

      The Uncle Tom from the novel was killed for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of escaped slaves.
      To call Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom is an insult to the reputation of that fictional character.

    • @markjwil
      @markjwil 2 місяці тому

      Not to mention, his white supremist wife aided insurrectionists to attempt to overturn our democratic election.

    • @hezigler
      @hezigler 2 місяці тому +7

      ​@@kevinsiu4956Language changes through time.

    • @hueypautonoman
      @hueypautonoman 2 місяці тому

      @@hezigler This is true but not the case here. Stowe's depiction of a slave, while not particularly hateful, was very much from a white lens and very flawed, but the main reason "Uncle Tom" became an insult is because stage shows depicted him in a very different way.
      They excluded the ending where he sacrificed himself and made every effort to make him appear as the white-serving collaborator that white people wanted black people to be. In a very real sense, white directors whitewashed Uncle Tom just like Clarence Thomas tries to white wash black nationalism.

    • @MrSamres
      @MrSamres 2 місяці тому

      There is nothing inappropriate in telling the truth about this evil person. He is not evil because he is a black conservative. He is evil because he sells out his people to white supremacy. Any, in every chance that he gets, to include using the full weight of his office to do so.

  • @chrisstewart750
    @chrisstewart750 2 місяці тому +18

    An excellent piece. I so wanted to make a kneejerk response, but had to hear this until the end. Yes, I get Thomas' view, thanks to you, Garrison, but dont expect me to respect him. He is busy enjoying spending his thirty pieces
    .. by the way, Dollemore told me where to find you, and im glad he did! UK out 😊

  • @edilrodriguez5388
    @edilrodriguez5388 3 місяці тому +21

    just found you , thanks to Jesse Dollemore . Thanks for the good work

  • @roxelie59
    @roxelie59 Рік тому +74

    Yet he's still not helpful to anybody

    • @houragents5490
      @houragents5490 10 місяців тому +9

      He is consistently the most BASED guy on the supreme court

    • @alliwishis_2
      @alliwishis_2 3 місяці тому +5

      ​@@houragents5490
      I'm not fully sure if I fully understand you correctly Are you saying " bias " or " based "

    • @alliwishis_2
      @alliwishis_2 3 місяці тому

      Yeah I definitely agree I don't understand.. If you shut down all the legal avenues to help yourself.. I don't know maybe he wants to twist everything up into one dimension so white folks won't think it's something different then what they are doing.. Because if you don't allow any type of legal avenue then anything black people try to do will be automatically shut down and that's on the light end on the heavy end they most likely will get prosecuted for doing something illegally that everybody else is trying to do

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому

      Is he the Jurist that doesn't know what a woman is?

    • @andu1854
      @andu1854 2 місяці тому +5

      @@houragents5490 by based you mean super corrupt?

  • @jenniferwright1821
    @jenniferwright1821 3 місяці тому +11

    Individual and all that $ lining his pockets....
    Thank you for enlightening me. Great content

  • @genecrawford2736
    @genecrawford2736 Рік тому +44

    Agreed!!! Thomas cares nothing about the collective and is concerned only with himself. Save yourself, damn the rest, mentality. Fortunately for him, he has that privilege, and it shows in every decision he makes on the court and outside of it.

    • @gitgudnga
      @gitgudnga 11 місяців тому

      the collective only holds excelled individuals back and when they identify this problem the collective like u who arent at their level try to tarnish them

    • @houragents5490
      @houragents5490 10 місяців тому

      huh?

    • @alliwishis_2
      @alliwishis_2 3 місяці тому

      🎯🎯🎯👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

    • @fangal12
      @fangal12 2 місяці тому +4

      He was able to climb the ladder of opportunity created by those that came before him then made sure to kick it down so no one could climb it after him. He's truly loathsome

    • @purplemist7
      @purplemist7 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@houragents5490What was so hard for you to understand?

  • @anthonybasiliere9366
    @anthonybasiliere9366 3 місяці тому +38

    Hi Garrision, I’m new to your channel thanks to Jesse’s plug recently. Blown away by the depth of your research and the skill involved in putting together this relevant piece. I have long suspected Justice Thomas as a sell out to his race but never understood how or why. Thank you for enlightening my prospective.

    • @emerynoel567
      @emerynoel567 3 місяці тому +4

      Same! This was a good vid. Gonna watch the How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything next. Hope the algorithm promotes your channel more!

    • @ThabaniN
      @ThabaniN 2 місяці тому +1

      Same with me. I agree with you ❤

    • @turonhayes1518
      @turonhayes1518 2 місяці тому +4

      Amazing and totally a conversation piece. They’re both speaking TTP! Listening Hearing ✊🏾🫡

    • @AP-pk6mk
      @AP-pk6mk 2 місяці тому

      I personally think Garrison's analysis leaves a lot to be desired but that's just me

    • @emerynoel567
      @emerynoel567 2 місяці тому +2

      @@AP-pk6mk feel free to post your own video.

  • @okay5045
    @okay5045 9 місяців тому +22

    Having read his autobiography and watched what he has done over the years. I am amazed that he thinks that he is where he is because of his own efforts. CT has been helped up all along the way. What are the chances he would have become a Supreme Court Justice had Thurgood Marshall not retired while a Republican president was seeking a black conservative replacement regardless of qualifications.

  • @fabionelmiguel
    @fabionelmiguel Рік тому +3

    Just found you on TikTok, and I’m definitely subscribing.

  • @futball51
    @futball51 Рік тому +43

    Your videos are criminally under watched

  • @drewtraver2947
    @drewtraver2947 Рік тому +7

    Clarence Thomas knew his U.S. history, politics and a wolf in sheeps clothing when he saw one unlike a lot of people now

  • @Ebonymozo
    @Ebonymozo Рік тому +27

    I didn't agree when I saw this on TikTok and your full explanation on here affirms it. Thomas speaking to a room full of Black lawyers in 1998 is no different than a Republican speaking to the NAACP.
    He knows he's speaking to an hostile audience and shows his past faux Black nationalism as a means to show he was once like them, and it was white people who made him change once MLK was assassinated.
    There have always been Black people in our community that support and align themselves with white supremacy. MLK, Malcolm, or any other civil rights leader could never have been killed and Thomas would still be the man he is today. Thomas is not and never had been a Black nationalist. He's no different than any other conservative MAGA white man. He just has darker skin.

    • @GarrisonHayes
      @GarrisonHayes  Рік тому +29

      I agree with your last two sentences. I think he has an interesting “starting point” but is, in reality, an enemy of Black progress. My goal was to fairly assess him on his own terms, in his own words. He was, in my opinion, trying to position himself as “pro-Black” in that 1998 speech, but I think he just proved why his goals aren’t good for Black folks.
      Thanks for watching 💪🏾

    • @indridcole7596
      @indridcole7596 9 місяців тому +4

      @@GarrisonHayesThomas is not and has never been a black nationalist. First of all black nationalist are opposed to race mixing. And that picture of Malcom x was disrespectful

    • @alliwishis_2
      @alliwishis_2 3 місяці тому

      ​@@indridcole7596
      Not the new black nationalist that have came up since '77 to the late 80s and beyond Those guys see everything as a quick hustle and a scam I mean a game

    • @alliwishis_2
      @alliwishis_2 3 місяці тому +3

      I truly believe something happened to him when he was at Yale they say when he was at Yale they had a riot there and he was in the middle of it and after that very night he seemed to change and change everything that he once was I truly believe one of or a couple of his supporters that was supporting him in that time at Yale really got to him I truly believe this you really have to break down the times that he was in and at Yale That was an extremely important turning point as well

    • @krombopulos_michael
      @krombopulos_michael Місяць тому

      ​@@indridcole7596he was previously opposed to race mixing though. He harassed people in college for being in interracial relationships. Obviously he's now married to a white woman, but he wasn't then.

  • @cbbcbb6803
    @cbbcbb6803 2 місяці тому +8

    Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will only make you fall flat on your face. That was one of the first meaning of that saying and imagery. Try to invision levitating yourself by pulling on your bootstraps. The other source of this reference was this. Rich men could pay other men to stoop down and pull together the rich man's bootstraps and then tie them for the rich man. The thought was that the rich guy could pull his bootstraps, and his shoestrings, together himself. The rich guy did not have to pull on his bootstraps to get into a higher level of social privilege because he was already there!
    So, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an oxymoron. You cannot do it.

  • @Strata-GEE13
    @Strata-GEE13 2 місяці тому +7

    Loving your channel....great information becoming a big fan thanks for what you do!!!!!!!

  • @carolwatts944
    @carolwatts944 2 місяці тому +47

    I want to hear & learn the truth. I’m a 70-yr-old white woman, having grown up in Republican, conservative MO. Over the last 40’ish yrs, I have turned my back on the backward, illiterate, and frankly, stupid opinions that many folks there held (& many still hold). I now live in the PNW, & have learned to educate myself, think for myself, and hold that all people of every creed & color are equal. (Isn’t that what the WHITE, MEN, slaveholding, forefathers said? I just don’t understand how they could write one thing into the constitution & yet live completely differently from their words. It boggles my mind.) I look forward to hearing/learning more from you & this channel. Please continue educating & reaching forwards towards liberty & justice for us all.

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому +1

      I'm in Deep Blue Southside Chicago and am ULTRA MAGA
      God Bless.

    • @The_Red_Off_Road
      @The_Red_Off_Road 2 місяці тому +2

      Don’t turn your back on your white family and friends because when you find out that the blacks will not fully accept you, you’ll wind up lonely. I don’t subscribe as totally conservative but I do have values that lean that way. I was raised in the church and my values reflect that. I also see the problems and I don’t not agree with everything the preacher says, or my uncles, or my dad.
      Mom is a republican, dad is a democrat. I came out in the middle and it’s a lonely spot to be in. I’m not accepted by the super republicans or the liberal democrats.
      Be careful what you wish for. The devil comes as a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing.

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому

      @@The_Red_Off_Road I don't turn my back on anyone, even if they hate God and Country, They need help, not shunning.
      MAGA 2024

    • @The_Red_Off_Road
      @The_Red_Off_Road 2 місяці тому +1

      @@imperialmotoring3789 that comment was directed at the original comment. My apologies. I didn’t mean it for you at all.

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому

      @@The_Red_Off_Road Sorry for misinterpreting! Democrats do hate Black people that are not obedient. Clarence Thomas is a good and decent man. Why are Democrats so against Nationalists? I'm a Nationalist I love USA!

  • @IAmVictorFurious
    @IAmVictorFurious 2 місяці тому +7

    this is good. your work is good. i enjoy the lack of speculation. clear and fucking concise.

  • @byronabrahams871
    @byronabrahams871 2 місяці тому +33

    Very interesting. Thanks for the insight. In South Africa, we have a term for people like Thomas, from the days of the Armed Struggle against Apartheid. "Askari". Black people, inevitably professionals, who worked with the apartheid government against the interests of their own people.

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому +2

      South Africa sounds like a horrible place to live.

    • @byronabrahams871
      @byronabrahams871 2 місяці тому +5

      @@imperialmotoring3789 Its not. It has deep, deep problems, but we love it because its ours. That wasn't the reality in Apartheid. That's why we fought that war.

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому

      @@byronabrahams871 Oh ok great! Glad we have no apartheid here in the USA but we do have the Democrats oppressing us.

    • @imperialmotoring3789
      @imperialmotoring3789 2 місяці тому

      @@byronabrahams871 Was Apartheid similar to the USA Civil War? That's when the Republicans took the slaves away from the Democrats. Democrats never forgave Republicans for that!

  • @eugenejohnson2984
    @eugenejohnson2984 Рік тому +1

    Always amazing bro... Thank you

  • @blockavelli
    @blockavelli Рік тому +6

    Great analysis brother!

  • @NOCKEYDA1
    @NOCKEYDA1 Рік тому +2

    I enjoy the knowledge you drop, very educational and will spread the word! Keep up the great work

  • @jacobtarr2221
    @jacobtarr2221 2 місяці тому +1

    Damn that is fascinating. I’m running through all of your old videos at this point- they are deeply appreciated, both the honest curiosity with which you approach each subject and the clear and succinct ways in which you argue.

  • @donavanj.1992
    @donavanj.1992 Рік тому +4

    More of these! So good my man! ✊🏿

  • @gavinhenry8671
    @gavinhenry8671 2 місяці тому +6

    Absolutely fantastic video. Really tied in a history of Judge Thomas.

  • @JS-ps9hb
    @JS-ps9hb Рік тому +7

    Glad to finally cross subscribe across platforms.

  • @Theyungcity23
    @Theyungcity23 2 місяці тому +2

    05:37 that chart is wild bro.

  • @ThabaniN
    @ThabaniN 2 місяці тому +4

    Hi brother I love your videos, so informative and educative. Please one more!

  • @hezigler
    @hezigler 2 місяці тому

    As soon as I saw your graph and where you placed Thomas you had me hooked.

  • @mchisolm0
    @mchisolm0 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for sharing, Garrison! 😁

  • @eric2500
    @eric2500 2 місяці тому +5

    I believe Ms. Hill. I always did.

  • @demean2798
    @demean2798 2 місяці тому +1

    10 years without asking a question, that is pure abnormal.

  • @carolannerobinson8351
    @carolannerobinson8351 3 місяці тому +5

    Very interesting take on Clarence T. I would like to know more.

  • @allensacharov5424
    @allensacharov5424 2 місяці тому

    brilliant analysis. I have watched three videos in a row and am looking forward to the next

  • @aniekanjoseph0308
    @aniekanjoseph0308 2 місяці тому +2

    It appears that we humans always look for heroes when we should step up and make an attempt to change what we dislike.

  • @Tradewindsvintagehi
    @Tradewindsvintagehi 2 місяці тому +2

    Very thoughtful. Thank you❤

  • @andreacraik9757
    @andreacraik9757 Рік тому +2

    Well done! Thank you…

  • @AliceandOakMedia
    @AliceandOakMedia Місяць тому +2

    This was especially interesting considering Clarence Thomas and the label of “Black Nationalist” in same sentence, in present tense. I think the MLK assassination traumatized him in a way that made him believe fighting for a group is detrimental while fighting for yourself (and whatever thing you want) leads to his version of Black freedom. Sadly, his pursuit, I think, turned him into a liar, a manipulator, a womanizer, etc. For him, since he achieved his “goal” I guess he accepted who he had to be in order to attain what he wanted. The man he had to become is the man most Black people would despise.

  • @5192ig88
    @5192ig88 2 місяці тому

    Very fascinating. Thank you!

  • @tagz2riches
    @tagz2riches Рік тому +7

    Bro … you humanized the devil 😂😂😂

    • @Ziggi333
      @Ziggi333 Рік тому +7

      Not quite. Thomas is a Corrupt judge. Full stop!

    • @turnerdcentury
      @turnerdcentury 2 місяці тому

      So like humanizing to me

  • @jeromesims
    @jeromesims 9 місяців тому +5

    This video is a brief but decent compliment to the excellent PBS documentary about CT and Ginni. CT WAS for a brief moment, a black nationalist. That speech for the black lawyers is more of a testimonial of the confused, frightened and defeated black nationalist. It completely lacks charisma and cannot be compared to MLK and others of their time and ilk. His massive distance from them on the spectrum chart used in this video proves that. It is a speech designed only to promote and explain his surrender. The corruption that we are now aware surrounds and saturates him is further evidence that the only ideology that inspires him is self-indulgence by any means necessary. More important than viewing CT as a black nationalist is facing that fact, especially because it is unlikely we will ever see CT take any action that reflects that title.

    • @alliwishis_2
      @alliwishis_2 3 місяці тому

      I truly believe when he was at Yale one of his supporters are a couple of his supporters really got some and total to quote unquote drop the ACT A lot of people really need to really dissect the time that he was at Yale Trust me for what I seen that reveals a whole lot as well
      🎯🎯🎯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

  • @brittanyalston8125
    @brittanyalston8125 Рік тому +2

    Great video!

  • @madeline-7748
    @madeline-7748 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for this video!

  • @mariabermudezesq
    @mariabermudezesq 9 місяців тому +1

    Super interesting. Thank you

  • @EuphoricImpact
    @EuphoricImpact 2 місяці тому +3

    I definitely agree with your evaluation of him.
    It really is simple whether applied individually or systemically....racism is a team sport.
    You can be both individually driven and work with a group.....without group think. There is always risk involved. However, I love my people... Black people (and those that are of like mind) and will never surrender to the status quo.
    How can I be so definitive? The status quo has the overwhelming power. So, in reality, I can suffer whether I am a boot lick like Mr. Thomas or not. I can die an ego death that shatters my soul or not.
    Power never concedes. You either have to convince, strategically out maneuver, forcefully take or construct a combination of events over time.
    Great video! Peace.

  • @psterling4321
    @psterling4321 Рік тому +2

    Well done sir👏🏾

  • @isas.-ruiz169
    @isas.-ruiz169 9 місяців тому +4

    insanely amazing video the best explanation of this man that made sense

  • @dylansloan
    @dylansloan Місяць тому

    Great job thanks for the video

  • @TheSilver2001
    @TheSilver2001 2 місяці тому

    Discovered your channel a few days ago, loving your content. I know it may seem overdone, but judging how much research you do and how in depth you get, I can see you doing a longer format history or political podcasts.

  • @MayorMcC666
    @MayorMcC666 Місяць тому

    recognizing his relative legitimacy is so important, liberal media just wants everyone to think he is dumb as rocks but it is not that simple.

  • @dakinayantv3245
    @dakinayantv3245 2 місяці тому +1

    He is interested in the good of one individual --himself.

  • @unnaturalselection8330
    @unnaturalselection8330 2 місяці тому +1

    Fact is that I can agree with you in all your goals and take a completely different path to get there ...or I can oppose you at every level and travel the same road.
    You never know the next man's heart 100%

  • @thebeaconnetwork
    @thebeaconnetwork Рік тому +1

    Great analysis. I really enjoyed this. One thing that maybe you can't say or speculate upon: where his religion, which is both a church and a state, factors into his "beliefs." I think your pinpointing that key moment in the C-SPAN footage his language which points to another arbiter of what is safe, acceptable, supportable was very perceptive. If it interests you, look into that religion angle...it will yield more insights. Thank you.

  • @misterbb
    @misterbb 2 місяці тому +3

    This is grotesquely unique clickbait.

    • @TashaSewingTutorials
      @TashaSewingTutorials 2 місяці тому +3

      No it's not. Thomas actually DOES think he's a black nationalist. I mean, we probably don't think so, but he honestly thinks he's a black nationalist.

    • @TashaSewingTutorials
      @TashaSewingTutorials 2 місяці тому

      He thinks if he takes away all government aids from black ppl, it will force black people to pick themselves up by the bootstraps.

    • @turnerdcentury
      @turnerdcentury 2 місяці тому +1

      So he’s delusional

  • @auntiquek2845
    @auntiquek2845 3 місяці тому +1

    🎉I’m new, but your subs increased during the time I’d watched several of your videos.
    Kindly Continue

  • @kyledavis5646
    @kyledavis5646 2 місяці тому

    Banger as always

  • @mychelle446
    @mychelle446 2 місяці тому +2

    Is he wrong though?... about the individual approach?... because the collective approach isn't working.

  • @blusox6486
    @blusox6486 2 місяці тому

    Damn brotha, I really appreciate your telling of the Clarence Thomas story

  • @cmlmonstar007
    @cmlmonstar007 2 місяці тому +1

    He’s someone Uncle Ruckus would agree with. The other guy is Mark Robinson the LT Gov. of North Carolina.

  • @Molly-jh4kz
    @Molly-jh4kz Місяць тому

    I had never thought about Clarence Thomas through this lens but I think to make a good case.

  • @Mrichie881
    @Mrichie881 2 місяці тому +1

    He doesn't have any standards or ideas that he stands for. He's for sale. That's it.

  • @deadsetanime7102
    @deadsetanime7102 2 місяці тому +3

    I don't think that the individual approach by Justice Thomas is wrong given what we know are the outcomes of black collectivism today. Dr Clark outlined much of this in his book Dark Ghetto which, in my opinion, aligns itself with Thomas' conclusion. I don't think that Clark was an individualist however in addressing the environment in which events and outcomes were taking place, collectivism has not brought about lasting change since the civil rights movement and that was nearly 60 years ago.
    I am reminded of Dr King's question near his death on whether he has integrated his people into a burning house. As I look the landscape of Black America and all as many facets of it that I can perceive, integration seems to have been the death of collectivism while at the same time creating more opportunity for individual Blacks who are willing to play ball.
    Edit: For the life of me, I cannot figure out why I keep spelling Clark with an 'e' as in Dr Clarke (smh)

  • @SimonSozzi7258
    @SimonSozzi7258 2 місяці тому +1

    That was excellent

  • @user-nn4if4tl8b
    @user-nn4if4tl8b 2 місяці тому +1

    I understood that Thomas's veering off into Harlan Crow's world started with Thomas not being offered employment in prestigious law firms after finishing Yale Law School. He felt, and possibly he was told, that he had to relegate himself to public defense work. "They won't let me into the big time, even though I am really good." Journeying... He found the door that let him into the big time: legal jurisprudence that lets power (money, political dominance, etc) reign unencumbered: the stiff backbone of American might. He cannot have thought that Harlan Crow's personal largess to him will be distributed out to black folk en masse. So what remains? And can what remains be applied to some parts of black America.This man is no fool. He is saddled strongly on the tiger as the beast rampages. Dismounting is tantamount to suicide.

  • @manipulatortrash
    @manipulatortrash Місяць тому

    this is honestly very informative. I've always been cautious judging people (right wing...left wing...doesnt matter), this makes it easier for me to understand how he changed.

  • @nopenope1186
    @nopenope1186 2 місяці тому +2

    He’s as much as a black nationalist as George Wallace and bull Connor.

  • @DJ_Force
    @DJ_Force 2 місяці тому

    Clearance Thomas shows that one can rise from hardship to achieve greatness. He was "born without boots", yet still lifted himself up.

    • @ervinghenderson4780
      @ervinghenderson4780 2 місяці тому

      You sure about that? Pretty sure he's been picked up and placed on his feet.

    • @DJ_Force
      @DJ_Force 2 місяці тому

      @@ervinghenderson4780 "After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savanah." - Wikipedia

    • @ervinghenderson4780
      @ervinghenderson4780 2 місяці тому

      @DJ_Force 1, quoting Wikipedia is not a good look. Anybody can edit it. 2, he was a product of Affirmative Action and then he tried to slam the door on anyone else coming behind him. He has had multiple benefactors. That's NOT pulling yourself up.

    • @DJ_Force
      @DJ_Force 2 місяці тому

      @@ervinghenderson4780 1) I an not conducting academic research, just referencing common knowledge.
      2) Plenty of people had more and amounted to less.

  • @martinholt4939
    @martinholt4939 2 місяці тому

    Very insightful video ❤

  • @VanLightning900
    @VanLightning900 2 місяці тому

    The thumbnail has me dying 🤣 🤣

  • @cliffgaither
    @cliffgaither 2 місяці тому

    There is a difference between him then and the person he is now. He never talked about his criminality on the court. He never mentioned his marriage to an insurrectionist.
    That was then, This is now !

  • @toasted7135
    @toasted7135 2 місяці тому +2

    how can he be a black nationalist if he literally has a white wife

  • @TheFXofNewton
    @TheFXofNewton 2 місяці тому +1

    Remember that Dave Chappelle show but he was in the KKK? That's pretty much clearance Thomas.

  • @UnforsakenAssassin
    @UnforsakenAssassin Рік тому +3

    Love you man

  • @avishevin3353
    @avishevin3353 2 місяці тому +1

    I wasn't aware that Thomas knows he's black.

  • @TheHomeman
    @TheHomeman 2 місяці тому +1

    He was demanding money from conservative business interests

  • @indridcole7596
    @indridcole7596 3 місяці тому +3

    He is not a black nationalist

  • @KingMike-un5vz
    @KingMike-un5vz Місяць тому

    I couldn't believe what I found out about him back in the day.

  • @AliceandOakMedia
    @AliceandOakMedia Місяць тому +1

    Excellent Video 🔥

  • @gamesterdumdum
    @gamesterdumdum 2 місяці тому

    I love your content, bro

  • @starling2154
    @starling2154 Місяць тому +1

    i find this video really unteresting. Only a little criticism: I think that the graph is wrong about Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey sympathized with far-right movements and sypported black capitalism, so i don't know if he can be considered a "liberal collectivist". Also he was against socialism. For Malcolm X, he was a revolutionary progressive, so idk about the idea of him represintg the conservative wing of the collectivism

  • @jeffreyharrisii5880
    @jeffreyharrisii5880 Місяць тому

    Unrelated to content of video but I love your shirt!

  • @stevendrumm4957
    @stevendrumm4957 Місяць тому

    Clarence Thomas WAS NEVER ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. But rather he was accused of sexual harassment.

  • @tomspettigue8791
    @tomspettigue8791 2 місяці тому

    i am a straight white cis guy and i appreciate these videos that... help me be less ignorant.lol. anyways thanks. good video. :)

  • @ma001eb
    @ma001eb 2 місяці тому

    On point!

  • @technologic21
    @technologic21 Місяць тому +2

    Thomas advocates for self-sufficiency, yet consistently undermines it as he takes bribes and rules against policies that help the black community and Americans as a whole. This isn't only a problem with his position as a black nationalist, but conservatism in general. It touts itself as being, 'compassionate' and 'faithful,' yet governs according to a tough love principal: socialism for the rich, brutal capitalism for everyone else. He is (or became) the very establishment he sought to change. And this is why brothers don't like him: he's a corrupt sell-out.

  • @cheetahpath
    @cheetahpath 3 місяці тому

    I'm glad you said that Garvey was a BN. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🟥⬛️🟩

  • @issuedwafflemc3165
    @issuedwafflemc3165 Місяць тому

    Surprised this channel does not have more subs

  • @user-on4us6df2r
    @user-on4us6df2r 2 місяці тому

    Just when it was getting interesting it could have been longer. Good job

  • @yonizaslavsky4246
    @yonizaslavsky4246 Місяць тому

    I think he is right that black solidarity can't be dependent on white liberals because the only people who nationalists can depend on is other nationals

  • @dumisaniwashington5143
    @dumisaniwashington5143 2 місяці тому +1

    Question: If suspicion of the White liberal (progressive) is one of the contributing factors of Clarence Thomas’ individualism, how does suspicion of the white liberal (if there is any) impact the Black liberal/progressive? More importantly, how has the White liberal historically impacted Black progress?

  • @ronaldcross6082
    @ronaldcross6082 2 місяці тому

    thank you

  • @patricknoonan3610
    @patricknoonan3610 2 місяці тому

    I took a required college course about the induvial and the collective. It was well worth it, in the long run.

  • @tylerhood5035
    @tylerhood5035 2 місяці тому

    I think I understand what he's doing now.

  • @nomanejane5766
    @nomanejane5766 2 місяці тому