Social media users were outraged Wednesday after a Georgia state senator smeared Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an “Uncle Tom.”
The Georgia Senate approved placing a statue of Thomas at the state capitol Tuesday, but State Sen. Emanuel Jones, D-Ga., slammed the justice, the second Black citizen to serve on the Supreme Court, as a traitor to his racial group.
“I’m just trying to tell you what we have in the African American community when we talk about a person of color that goes back historically to the days of slavery and that person betraying his own community – we have a term in the Black community,” Sen. Jones, who is Black himself, said before the Georgia Senate.
He went on, “And Uncle Tom is a either fictional or non fictional character, I don’t really know the origin of Uncle Tom, but it talks about a person who back during the days of slavery sold his soul to the slave masters.”
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Commentators across Twitter slammed the state senator from a variety of angles for his disparaging comparison.
The Federalist senior contributor Benjamin Weingarten tweeted that this insult is part of a long tradition from Democrats.
“Justice Thomas — one of the greatest Americans in our history, and perhaps the most revolutionary and exceptional jurist of at least the last century — will never, ever stop paying for the thought crime of being black and conservative,” he wrote. ‘What’s old is new again for the Democrats.”
Radio host Derek Hunter tweeted, “’Know your place!’ – man making sure black men learn Democrats do not want them thinking for themselves.”
Pro-life outlet LifeNews tweeted, “A Democrat legislator calls Justice Clarence Thomas an ‘Uncle Tom’ because he’s conservative. There’s nothing the left hates more than black Americans who don’t conform to their agenda.”
Opinion writer Nicole Russell tweeted, “If you don’t align with the mob…
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