The University of Georgia School of Law has scored a coup in the world of law schools and landed a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice, Clarence Thomas, as a graduation speaker. In any sane world, this would be a marked accomplishment and something of which to be quite proud.
But University of Georgia School of Law Professor Eugene Wilkes has other plans. He plans to boycott. And more importantly, he wants everyone to know about his lack of hospitality to a visiting dignitary. So, just about every AP outlet that carries the wonderful news of this major accomplishment by the University of Georgia Law School has ruined it with some comment about Wilkes' petty mean-spiritedness.
The Associated Press reports that Georgia law professor Eugene Wilkes likely will boycott the speech. "To say that various law faculty members are appalled and horrified, I think would be a correct assessment," Wilkes said.
Think about that for a minute. An Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court is going to come a honor your school by speaking at the commencement exercise and this professor says that he is "appalled and horrified." Imagine that. If Bill Clinton were invited to speak at the University of Georgia Law School, I would think that the invitation would be "poor judgment" or "not well thought out." But even the only elected president to be impeached who also lost his law license for lying under oath in Court would not draw an "appalled" or a "horrified" or even a "disgusted" from me.
Rather, it is up to the liberal professor to teach us how mean-spirited and full of hate someone can really be. Someone who punches the Institution at which he teaches in the eye at the moment of great achievement. Someone so consumed by hatred that he can't even be polite or courteous to an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court at the pinnacle of the legal profession.
And what did Associate Justice Thomas do that was so bad that the mere mention of his invitation to come to the flagship law school in the State would require such immediate venom and hyperbole? Oh, he votes conservative. That's it.
If you want to know real hatred against African-Americans, if you want to see pure mean-spirited bigotry and prejudice in action, watch the reaction of liberals to African-Americans who dare to break and throw off the chains of the White Liberal Plantation Masters. Watch the actions of Eugene Wilkes and listen to his words, and see the pure, petty mean-spiritedness of liberals.
Sierra Baker |