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babylonsister

(171,072 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 04:54 PM Jul 2020

Clarence Thomas' Wife Melts Down Over Black Lives Matter Banner

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/clarence-thomas-wife-melts-down-over-black


7/10/20 11:10am
Clarence Thomas' Wife Melts Down Over Black Lives Matter Banner
Ginni Thomas, aka Mrs. Clarence Thomas, tried to bully her small town into removing a "Black Lives Matter" banner over its Main Street by fear mongering it opens the door to Black mob rule.
By NewsHound Ellen


The Washington Post has the story about fear and loathing the banner caused for some in the small, overwhelmingly white town of Clifton, Virginia:

It was posted over the tiny Northern Virginia town’s Main Street, in a space mostly used to advertise community events, after residents proposed staging a protest like the ones that have swept the country since the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.

The gesture — which Mayor William R. Hollaway called “a first step” to beginning discussions of racial equity — drew mostly positive responses, according to the town clerk. But it prompted outrage from some residents of Fairfax County and nearby towns. Hollaway called the banner “the biggest controversy we’ve seen in many years.”


One of those outraged is Ginni Thomas, wife of sitting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She wrote an email to the town suggesting that the banner is the first step toward an invasion of Black looters.

“BLM is a bit of a dangerous Trojan Horse and they are catching well-meaning people into dangerous posturing that can invite mob rule and property looting,” Ginni Thomas, who is white, wrote on June 24. “Let’s not be tricked into joining cause with radical extremists seeking to foment a cultural revolution because they hate America.”


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It sounds like Thomas and a band of right-wing agitators decided to make enough noise to give the appearance of an opposition greater than it really is. I would not be surprised if she were the ringleader, just like she is a ringleader of her Trump loyalty operation known as Groundswell. As The Post also noted, it just so happens that her anti-BLM rhetoric echoes Trump and his right-wing allies.

Meanwhile, Thomas will no doubt be worrying for the foreseeable future about radical Blacks swarming into her town and remaking it in their image because the council decided not to remove the banner.
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Clarence Thomas' Wife Melts Down Over Black Lives Matter Banner (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2020 OP
2 options: she's disingenuous, or she's dumb as fuck maxsolomon Jul 2020 #1
Both. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Jul 2020 #7
Omigod! That's wonderful. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #8
But she can't be racist Proud liberal 80 Jul 2020 #2
What's next - a Ben's Chili Bowl on every corner? lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #3
FU Ginni, and btw, your husband is a SHITHEAD Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #4
Boo hoo Gothmog Jul 2020 #5
Is she afraid her husband's family Bev54 Jul 2020 #6
Isn't she worried her black husband might get triggered and become dangerous? MagickMuffin Jul 2020 #9
She makes a lot of money from a right wing org. This is business as usual. Buckeyeblue Jul 2020 #10

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
1. 2 options: she's disingenuous, or she's dumb as fuck
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 05:00 PM
Jul 2020

with that slippery-slope bullshit. "mob rule"?

Also, she used "dangerous" twice in 1 sentence.

Bev54

(10,053 posts)
6. Is she afraid her husband's family
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 05:43 PM
Jul 2020

might actually feel welcome enough to visit them? How to be a racist married to a black man, unfuckingbelievable.

MagickMuffin

(15,943 posts)
9. Isn't she worried her black husband might get triggered and become dangerous?
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 07:39 PM
Jul 2020

I mean he is black and they can be triggered into acting all dangerous and stuff. Just ask all the RWNJ's out there, they know ALL about the black race.


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