Robin's concluding paragraph:

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:52:32 +0000

In reply to Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race

....Rather than setting up a conditional, he is presenting the inability to end racism as the condition of American society.

In this sense, the story of Clarence Thomas is the story of the last half-century of American politics. It is a story of defeat, not only of the civil-rights movement and the promise of black freedom but of a larger vision of democratic transformation, in which men and women act collectively to alter their estate. The citizens of the freedom struggle believed that society was made, and could be remade, through politics. Many of their successors, including Thomas, no longer believe that kind of change is possible. A deep and abiding pessimism now pervades our politics, transcending the divisions of right and left. Clarence Thomas, the most extreme Justice on the Supreme Court, turns out also to be the most emblematic. Should he remain on the bench for another nine years, he will be the longest-serving Justice in American history.

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Robin's concluding paragraph: