A Democratic state lawmaker had some harsh words for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during a debate over a statue in his honor.
The Georgia Senate debated a bill on Wednesday that would place a statue of the justice in the state’s capitol. However, State Sen. Emanuel Jones (D) opposed the bill and criticized Thomas.
“In the Black community, we have an expression — and I don’t want to use this label too deeply here because I’m just trying to tell you what we have in the African American community,” Jones began. “When we talk about a person of color that goes back historically to the days of slavery and that person betraying his own community, we have a term in the Black community. That term that we use is called ‘Uncle Tom.’”
“And ‘Uncle Tom’ is either a fictional or nonfictional character. I don’t really know the origins of ‘Uncle Tom.’ But it talks about a person who back during the days of slavery sold his soul to the slave masters. That’s the fictional story of an ‘Uncle Tom.”
Jones said, “When we think about a person in the Black community who’s accomplished, but yet [their] policies seek to subvert — some may even say suppress — the achievements and accomplishments of people of color, I couldn’t help but to think about that term.”
“Y’all just don’t get it. And I don’t expect people of non-color to get the sensitivity that we feel,” he added.
Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) tweeted, “The Left is so outraged by a proposal to build a statue of Clarence Thomas at the Georgia Capitol, that one unhinged lawmaker compared him to an ‘Uncle Tom’” who ‘sold his soul to the slave masters.’”
“Watch for yourself: the hatred and radicalism of the far-Left on full display,” she added.
Benjamin Weingarten, the deputy editor of RealClearInvestigations, wrote, “Disgusting.”
The Georgia Senate voted on Wednesday to pass the legislation. It will now head to the state House.
Original article: https://ijr.com/dem-clarence-thomas-uncle-tom-opposing-statue-honor/
