*Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said recently that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reminds him of Samuel L. Jackson’s plantation overseer character Stephen in Quentin Tarantino’s film “Django Unchained.”
“Well, Clarence Thomas, anybody who’s watched the movie, just watch Stephen and you see Clarence Thomas,” the Minnesota AG said recently during an interview with the Michigan Chronicle.
Stephen, also enslaved in the film, is loyal to the plantation owner played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and revels in the “power” his master gives him to keep his fellow enslaved people in line. He ultimately betrays the Black hero of the movie, played by Jamie Foxx.
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Ellison also argued that Thomas, like Stephen, only looks out for his own “best personal interests” and “doesn’t care nothing” about the American communities he is expected to fight for and represent as a Supreme Court justice.
“Clarence Thomas has decided that his best personal interest is siding with the powerful and the special interests regardless of who they’re going to hurt,” Ellison continued. “He’s like, ‘I’m looking out for me, and I don’t care nothing about you. But I’m on the Supreme Court so it’s my job to look out for you.’”
“So he’s abdicating his responsibility,” Ellison said. “He abdicated it a long time ago. When he got in office, he was this way, he’s this way now, maybe he’s worse now.”
Ellison accused Thomas of being an “illegitimate” SCOTUS justice and called for him to be impeached.
“So Clarence Thomas needs to be impeached,” the Minnesota AG charged further. “Clarence Thomas is illegitimate and has no basis in the job that he’s in. And it’s a lesson to us as African-Americans. What is the lesson? Well, we all thought, ‘Well, he’s a black man raised in the deep South. He knows what racism, segregation is. He knows what affirmative action is. He’s gonna come around one day. Understand that it’s not a matter of pigment. It’s not what’s on your skin, it’s what’s in your mind.”
Watch Ellison compare Justice Thomas to “Django Unchained’s” Stephen in the below interview clip from the Michigan Chronicle:
Of late, Justice Thomas recently voted to strike down affirmative action programs in college admissions – programs that were previously put in place to help disadvantaged groups establish fair access to educational opportunities in the United States.
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