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Minnesota Lawyer Normal Keith Ellison, a Democrat, went off on a racially charged diatribe evaluating Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas to the enduring houseslave character in Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 movie “Django Unchained.”
The previous congressman sat down final week for an interview with the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit, the place he was requested to touch upon Thomas’s views on affirmative motion.
Thomas, the second black decide to take a seat on the bench, sided with the June 6-3 majority ruling to ban racial concerns from the faculty admissions course of, arguing that people are the “sum of their distinctive experiences, challenges, and efficiency.”
Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas, left, and Minnesota Lawyer Normal Keith Ellison. (Fox information)
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Ellison mentioned Thomas’s determination aligned him with the character “Stephen,” performed by Samuel L. Jackson in “Django Unchained.” Within the movie, Stephen is a sadist who stays loyal to his grasp, the movie’s antagonist, Calvin Candie, performed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Anybody who’s seen the film ‘Django,’ simply have a look at Stephen and you will see Clarence Thomas,” Ellison mentioned. “Clarence Thomas has determined that his greatest private curiosity is to aspect with the highly effective and the particular pursuits, regardless of who they are going to damage. He says, I am watching me, and I do not care about you, however I am in it Supreme Court docket, so it is my job to maintain you.” “So he is abdicating his duty. He abdicated it a very long time in the past. When he took workplace, he was like that. He is like that now, perhaps he is worse now.”
Samuel L. Jackson poses in the course of the photocall for the film “Django Unchained” in Rome on Jan. 4, 2013. (Picture by Guido MARZILLA/Gamma-Rapho by way of Getty Pictures)
Ellison argued that Thomas’ Supreme Court docket place is “illegitimate” and that he needs to be impeached.
“So Clarence Thomas needs to be impeached,” he continued. “Clarence Thomas is illegitimate and has no foundation within the job he is in. And it is a lesson for us as African People. What is the lesson? All of us thought, he is a black man who grew up within the Deep South. He is aware of what racism and segregation is, he is aware of what constructive motion is. He’ll come by in the future.”
“Perceive it is not about pigment. It is not about what’s in your pores and skin, it is about what is going on on in your head,” he added.
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Minn AG Keith Ellison compares decide Clarence Thomas to deal with slave character in blockbuster
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