Uncle Clarence is a Supreme Sellout

Clarence and Ginni's troubles escalate.

The performance of Samuel L. Jackson is one of the highlights of watching Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

Jackson plays Stephen, a house slave who is secretly a spy and confidante of his master Calvin Candie, played Leonardo DiCaprio.

He sits and smoke cigars with Candie, and tells him what he has heard and seen, working to undermine the hopes and dreams of his fellow slaves.

He does so because he thinks this is the best way to prosper.

Prospering by betraying his people.

Even though he’s no less a slave than the other Blacks on the Candie plantation.

As each day passes, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds himself embroiled in controversy over disclosures of hidden financial transactions that benefit Thomas and his wife Ginni.

First, ProPublica published in April that Thomas has been taken on expensive vacations by Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, and that Crow had also bought a home in Georgia owned by Thomas and Thomas’ relatives. The proceeds from this sale were missing from Thomas’ annual disclosure forms.

Now, the Washington Post has uncovered that a right-wing activist who has had numerous cases go before the Court paid Ginni Thomas tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work but made sure that her name was left off billing statements.

Leonard Leo asked then-pollster and later White House aide Kellyanne Conway to bill a non-profit group that he advises and use the money collected to pay Ginni Thomas. The non-profit was the Judicial Education Project, which submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court case that helped to cripple the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Even though recusing yourself based on amicus curiae is considered a legal gray area, there has been enough evidence of judicial malfeasance by Thomas that he should be investigated and removed from the court.

No one would expect Thomas to resign and remove himself.

That would require more courage and temerity than he is capable of mustering.

It would require having a conscience.

An admission of guilt.

A desire to do the right thing.

All Thomas understands is how to ingratiate himself with the most reactionary, prejudiced cabal in the hopes that he will be found acceptable.

Poor Clarence is unaware that he will never be acceptable to them.

Traitors are never accepted.

Clarence Thomas is the living embodiment of Stephen.

The kind of slave who informed on planned slave revolts who thought that their loyalty to their master would result in their freedom.

But instead, their actions resulted in either their being sold further south or being executed along with those who planned the revolt.

Nothing good will come of Clarence Thomas.

He will never be accepted.

History will be unkind.

He will only be remembered fondly for being so easy to buy and use.