Maureen Dowds’ column is a perfect example of pomo (post-modernism) reader response. She reads her presuppositions into the text (in this case his interviews or maybe his book). She’s writing in the voice of Justice Thomas but all you hear is the bleating of the left who still can’t get over the fact that Bush won the election in 2000.
It’s really a shame that the left continues to libel the man. It’s obvious that they still fear him. A black man in a position of power, a black man that they can’t control with their governmental programs. Everyone knows the real reason they didn’t want him on the Supreme Court was because he was black. They don’t want blacks on the bench who don’t tow the party line, they have to keep them in place. They blocked Miguel Estrada for the same reason — a minority who wasn’t beholden to them and their programs.
She mocks his life, yet she’s never faced that kind of racism. She makes light of it, as if she has the right to do so. She continues the lynching they started all those years ago, how progressive.
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