The Lasting Legacy of the Council of Nicea: The Creation, Roots, and Distorted Usage of Christianity by Jimerson Rufus

Author:Jimerson, Rufus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Americans with Disabilities Act

Age Discrimination in the Employment Act

Sick Leave Portions of the Family and Medical Leave Act

Freedom of Access to Clinics Act

Minimum Wage and Maximum Hour Laws (Ibid)

If Thomas and his right-wing peers on the court have their way, the nation’s laws would return to mid-nineteenth century at best. Social justice, discrimination, and inequality would be pervasive. The benefactors of their decision would be greedy, transnational, corporations, their lobbyist, and conservatives they subsidize. Their freedom to use predatory practices without restraint would be achieved at the expense of democracy, fairness, inclusion, social justice and progress.

For the last five years, Justice Thomas has remained reticent in court arguments before the Supreme Court. His prejudice against social justice and civil rights remained a consistent feature of his rigidly conservative decisions, opinions, and private speeches to right-wing groups. Thomas thinks that oral arguments and discussions will not change anything (Litwick, 2011). The application of justice, as he sees it, should be “by and for” conservatives.

Being the deciding vote in the Citizen United decision, Justice Thomas was invited to attend a victory party in Palm Springs, California, organized by Charles and David Koch, prominent organizers and financiers of the Birth Society and ultraconservative causes. Thomas failed to either disclose this off-the-book's conference. In addition, he failed to disclose five years of his financial forms (Ibid). The problem with Thomas is his binary view seeing conservatism as an absolute good and progressivism as an absolute evil irrespective of its majority support. This view seems both plutocratic and fascist, borne out of self-hatred, devaluation, and aborted intellectual development.

Justice Thomas holds the conservative view that racial injustices had to be limited to individuals who can prove that they personally were victimized. He staunchly rejects the argument that racism is a pervasive social phenomenon associate with power, wealth, and status. Thomas accepts the conservative argument that racism is an equal opportunity oppressor who victimizes whites as readily as blacks. In other words, he believes that reverse racism with blacks victimizing whites is as prevalent as racism against blacks.

To Justice Thomas and his conservative backers, racial fairness cannot be achieved at the expense of whites for three centuries slavery and repression that included lynching and racist rules that permeated every aspect of the lives of African-Americans. They believe that white Americans should not be punished for the racist sins of their fathers and forefathers. Therefore, Thomas staunchly opposes affirmative action or any governmental intervention benefiting blacks over whites irrespective of the growing gap in opportunity, access, resources, expenditures, employment, and circumstance. As a result, some progressives have called Justice Thomas “a white supremacist in black face” (SkepticalBrotha, 2007).

Justice Thomas views affirmative action as a “narcotic of dependency” (Ibid). But his up bring in the Jim Crow South and dire poverty he experienced contradicts aversion against affirmative action or any preferential program designed to uplift African-Americans. Another irony is that Thomas benefited from numerous affirmative actions taken by nuns and other educators to help him attend Yale Law School as a result of a racial quota.

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