Look, Just Go On And Say The N-Word
You know, I think most Republicans would feel a whole lot better if they just went on and said the N-word.
Poor Antonin Scalia, he had to say that blacks are inferior people without using the N-word or the word inferior. It was tough but he did an admirable job.
In oral arguments over the case Fisher v. the University of Texas Wednesday, Scalia suggested African-American students would do better at “slower-track schools” than UT. He added that black students come from “lesser schools, where they do not feel that they’re being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them.”
But, damn him, I had to call the black UT grads I know and apologize for how much harder it was for them than it was for everybody else.
Lord knows I have given Harry Reid a lot of guff over the years, but he gets a pat on the back from me today. He said …
“The only difference between the ideas endorsed by Trump and Scalia is that Scalia has a robe and a lifetime appointment.”
Hell, think it troubles him that he has to wear a black robe.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Maybe Mr Justice Scalia WOULD be more comfortable with a color change of robe. White? With a hood??
1Don’t you just long for Barbara Jordan to rise from the grave and have a few magisterial words for Justice Scalia? Preferably at his impeachment hearing.
2Reagan White House counsel Peter Wallison recalls how Scalia was a minority, affirmative action pick for the Supreme Court:
“Reagan had asked me whether Scalia was of Italian extraction. I think he used the word ‘extraction,’ and I said, ‘Yes, he’s of Italian extraction.’ Reagan said, ‘That’s the man I want to nominate, so I want to meet him…’
“I think [Reagan] felt that it would be great to put an Italian American on the Supreme Court. He had all the usual American instincts: ‘We don’t have an Italian American on the court, so we ought to have one.’
3Micr, but. but, BUT …. Scalia isn’t racist. Just ask him. He has the obligatory one black friend to prove that he isn’t racist. Right Justice Token? oops, I mean Thomas.
Black or white, there is one common theme among the aging snacilbupeR crowd – “I got mine, screw you.” Now that they are content, time to roll back all the FDR social progress, Eisenhower tax schedules, and 60s Civil Rights gains with a hearty smack down to Roe v. Wade to set women back a hundred years. Their concept of equality: “misery for all,” except of course they and their special snowflake pals.
4@PKM
5Now that you mention it, “I got mine, screw you.” seems to be the theme of tRump’s bogus presidential campaign/extended attention orgasm.
This THING needs to be impeached immediately.
6Scalia has his robe, and Trump has his pitchfork and torch.
7Micr, T-Rump has actually expressed more than “I got mine, screw you.” His tax plan includes a special provision for his 3 entitlement special snowflakes. Fracker plans to be sure they pay no inheritances taxes. His motto: “got mine and not a penny will trickle down, even after death.”
8My question is if the “black” schools are “lesser,” why the heck don’t we make them better? ALL schools should have the same resources and opportunities for students.
9My soap box.
I suspect Scalia is suffering from dementia, I’d say early stages but he seems pretty far gone to me. He doesn’t seem to have any filters. He needs to be gone.
Calling George Wallace…..Maybe Justice Scalia thinks he can be nominated as tRump’s vice president if he talks racist smack.
10Poor old Tony forgets there was a time when white people felt the same way about Italians.
11How come cops don’t automatically blast people wearing KKK hoodies? Do they know the wearers aren’t necessarily black?
12Here’s a photo of cadets at the Citadel, singing Christmas carols, who no doubt qualified for admission to their school based on… the quality of their costumes? Light up the crosses boys:
http://gawker.com/what-does-this-look-like-to-you-1747360136
13Rick, that’s ineffable! Served in the Air Force with a great guy who was a Citadel graduate. As officers and gentlemen, we hope this incident is fully investigated, and at a MINIMUM the miscreants involved are denied commissions into any branch of the US military. No promises; but we’ll do what we can that this crap doesn’t get buried. Thank you for the heads up!
14Rick, are you kidding me?! What in hell makes the Citadel think that’s even a tiny bit acceptable?!!
As for inJustice Scabies, well, he’s the prime example that scumballs abound again today.
15It should be noted that eight of the Cadets have been suspended pending investigation. This is fairly quick action by the administration.
16JanK, you might be on to something there with “lack of filter” which is usually sign of dementia. Went through it with my parents, but this guy needs to be retired forthwith.
17Sigh. What Scalia said is so inherently stupid and lacking in insight I wouldn’t have nominated him to judge a cupcake baking contest.
18I wonder what Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson thinks of Scalia’s comments…come to think of it, I wonder what Justice
19Thomas thinks?
When I get as old and ugly as he is, I hope I am not as mean and hateful as he has become.
20JAKvirginia, if Scalia were my house guest (which on a probability scale of 1-10 would rate a -5) I would not trust him to pee in the toilet or flush. In his judicial robe he reminds me of the NY Don, Vincent Gigante. The one who was best known for walking through his Greenwich Village neighborhood in a bathrobe and pajamas. Only Vince was faking, while Big Tony is the whole deal mental incompetent.
21Kate Dungan, Justice Thomas “thinks” whatever Ginny tells him to think. Prior to marrying her, he seems to have sported a pair and was a reasonable man in his days at Holy Cross.
22Scalia has just established that dribble comes from at least two of his orifices, if not more.
23The core of bigotry is to label a group of people and then attribute some kind of negative, universal attribute(s) to them.
I wonder if Scalia believes that all students of “Italian extraction” are in training for the Mafia.
24When Clarence Thomas talks Scalia’s lips barely move.
25That is the deepest cut the fecal-form just-us of the superem curt ever took.
26Congratulations on the best insult delivered this year.
I find Antonin Scalia very demoralizing. I think he should, at bare minimum, recuse himself from this case after that display of bias. Mercy.
27Maybe Scalia would do better at a “slower-tracked” court? Just sayin’.
28Hey, it wasn’t that long ago that much the same thing was being said about women who wanted a college education, so I am so with you, JJ, on this. Separate colleges for women were good at what they did, but were they equal to what men had available? Well, think of it this way. When all male colleges were graduating, say, engineers (even some state schools were gender segregated), were women’s colleges doing the same thing even though there were students who actually wanted to become engineers and had all the talent to do so? If you said,no, give yourself a raise! Even when the world recognized Marie Curie for radium, the men who pulled all the dam strings on education huffed that it was really her husband, Pierre, who had done all the heavy lifting and she was simply putting forward the work he had done! Horse hockey! It is wayyyyyyy past time for Scalia to retire and let Obama appoint some real talent. Again.
29For those who might have actually been shocked at the revelation of state supported gender segregated schools, I herewith present the history of the University of Virginia, now acclaimed as a Public Ivy, who had their main campus in Charlottesville reserved for men and a women’s campus, known as Mary Washington where young ladies could get a genteel education, several miles away in Fredericksburg. Mary Washington long ago went co-ed and separated from U-VA. It is now its own university. Nuff said.
30Scalia is practicing “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” I listened to a program on NPR some time ago when they were talking about black students and white female students doing poorly on certain tests because they felt they were not expected to be able to do well on science and math, so didn’t try. However, when they were given puzzles to solve (specifically not called tests) the black and female students did just as well as the white males.
As a white female in her late 70’s I can attest that this was certainly true when I was growing up in South Texas.
31Larry Wilmore had the best line about this top open his show last night:
“In all fairness to Justice Scalia, the only black person he knows is Clarence Thomas.”
32This case shouldn’t even have made it to the Supreme Court. The person who didn’t make the cut, Abigail Fisher, claims it was because of affirmative action. Yet she hasn’t explained how affirmative action chose 54 white students (out of a total of 57) over her using the secondary considerations. We know her grades in high school weren’t good enough to qualify her for the top 10% of her graduating class. Maybe she wasn’t chosen because UT just didn’t want her.
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