Clarence Thomas is one of the least likely people you’d expect to teach civil rights.
For decades, he has used his Supreme Court weight to oppose affirmative action, challenge federal voting rights protections and reject certain legal resolutions designed to address racial discrimination.
Yet the University of Texas School of Civic Leadership has tapped the U.S. Supreme Court justice to help teach a course on civil rights and the meaning of equality next spring. The university’s recent announcement raises the obvious question: Just what civil rights story will the students be getting?
Thomas will teach a seminar called “Equality and the New Birth of Freedom.” It will focus on the work of civil rights activists including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He will be on campus for two hours every morning for one week in February.
I have another question, is being on SCOTUS a part time job?
It’s more like a hobby it seems.
A lucrative side-hustle.
Always has been
I get it, but it sounds like the “teaching” gig is more of a junket
He will be on campus for two hours every morning for one week in February.
I’d like like to get an all-expense-paid trip somewhere warm and only have to work 2 hours a day…
Aren’t they always denying cases because they don’t have time ?
The caseload alone justifies expanding the court.
~~“University of Texas” is an idiom ~~
dangit. I fucked that up. I meant oxymoron.
UT Austin is in the top 10 public universities in the nation.
Plus, Austin is that tiny bit of sanity in that deplorable state. If Texas ever secedes, we’re gonna have to run an airlift of “weird” into it regularly to keep it well supplied.
I hope his students pelt him with apples.
Uncle Tom’s Introduction to Civil Rights (and how to keep uppity black folk in line)
Correction: Uncle Ruckus
Civil wrongs.
Did Joe Rogan open up another Comedy Mothership location on UT campus?
I hope this is a The Onion story.
Hey, at least he’s doing honest work to supplement his salary this time.
Roberts wants the Court to be seen as nonpartisan, so he’s instructed the conservative Justices to take bribes from Democrats too.
There should be some Harriet Beecher Stowe on the syllabus — I’d love to hear Clarence Thomas teach Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
How will he teach civil rights? We’re not allowed to talk about anything that might make white people feel bad. How does one teach about the 19th amendment without discussing gender?
I hope every student hits him with the hard ball questions that he’s never had to actually face in his comfy little ivory tower. Repeatedly remind him he’s a piece of shit hypocrite.
You need to be a civil right expert if you want to efficiently violate so many of them during your career.
