Questions About Clarence Thomas
I’m really getting tired of the double standard in this country. It is just as wrong to favor a minority, including women, as it is to discriminate against one. A person should be selected based on experience and qualifications, not race or sex.
It would seem that Thomas is qualified; however, he is a conservative and holds many views with which Senate Democrats disagree. If he were white, there is no way he would be confirmed by a liberal-dominated Senate.
It is ironic that Thomas is opposed to quotas and minorities getting preferential treatment just because of their minority status, when the fact remains that if he is confirmed, it will be because of his race.
Ultimately, this raises the rhetorical question: Would Judge Robert Bork have been confirmed to the Supreme Court if he were black?
BRENDA HESTER
Garden Grove
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