Shelby Steele on Clarence Thomas

The subheading on Shelby Steele’s article reads “The liberal policy of redress may have aided his development. But self-help put him in the position to benefit.” Actually, what put him in the position to benefit was the education he received from schools run by the Catholic Church, another “liberal” operation that worked to reverse the damages caused by racial oppression many decades before affirmative action, and certainly during the time of Clarence Thomas’ childhood in Pin Point, Ga.

Revealing evidence as to where Shelby Steel is coming from is his use of the word liberal seven times in the last three paragraphs. I am sure that the Republican Party and its associated think tanks will take very good care of Mr. Steele.

WAYNE WILEY, Huntington Beach