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Robin mostly accepts at face value Thomas’s portrayal of himself as a
race man deeply invested in black America. After all, Thomas quotes
approvingly from Douglass. He talks admiringly of the black folk who
persevered under the brutal reign of Jim Crow. He notes the continuing
prevalence of anti-black racism, and he concerns himself with the racial
consequences of disputed policies. But this is mostly pretense. When
Thomas cites Douglass, he does so not to perpetuate that great man’s
challenge to white supremacy but to burnish his own brand, signaling to
black Americans that, beneath his reactionary politics, he has not
forgotten where he came from and signaling to white Americans that he is
no ordinary right-wing Republican but something more valuable: a black
right-wing Republican with code-switching capabilities.
https://www.thenation.com/article/enigma-clarence-thomas-book-review/
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