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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,057 posts)
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 08:59 PM Feb 2022

Black lawmakers blast plans for monument to Justice Thomas

Source: AP

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican-controlled Senate voted Monday to erect a monument to conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Georgia native Clarence Thomas after heated debate and objections from several Black senators, one of whom called Thomas a “hypocrite and a traitor.”

The monument would be financed by private donations and would be erected somewhere at the state Capitol if the measure were to receive final passage. It was approved by a vote of 32 to 21 and now goes to the state House for consideration.

Statues honoring people at the state Capitol are generally put up after their deaths. Some opponents of the monument for Thomas said lawmakers should at least wait until he retires.

That's because you don't know “what else is going to come up in the lifetime of an individual,” said State Sen. Nan Orrock, an Atlanta Democrat. "You put a statue up to him, you don't want to be pulling it down later if things go badly, if the person goes astray.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/black-lawmakers-blast-plans-for-monument-to-justice-thomas/ar-AATzCwFc

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Black lawmakers blast plans for monument to Justice Thomas (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #1
I Have To Say, I Am RobinA Feb 2022 #25
I'm of the opinion that we should not have monuments to living people. COL Mustard Feb 2022 #2
Or, another question to ask is wnylib Feb 2022 #21
The GOP and Thomas deserve each other - both are repulsive. walkingman Feb 2022 #3
Fewest comments of any supreme ever while serving on the bench. His conflict of interest looms Evolve Dammit Feb 2022 #4
Good trade jcgoldie Feb 2022 #5
Oh boy, now I have two reasons to vomit SouthernDem4ever Feb 2022 #6
It Will Be a Giant Can of Coke Deep State Witch Feb 2022 #7
Hmmm. Possibly Coke can be used to anoint his memorial. Should draw lots of ants and flies... Hekate Feb 2022 #9
No... jmowreader Feb 2022 #26
Good gravy Hekate Feb 2022 #8
A ridiculous suggestion.. Deuxcents Feb 2022 #10
"hypocrite and a traitor" Skittles Feb 2022 #11
Fuckikng Statue of a Fucking Fascist.. Cha Feb 2022 #12
Republicans idolize fascists. Especially stupid facists. SunSeeker Feb 2022 #23
A travesty. There are not many people less deserving of a monument than this Uncle Ruckus. LoisB Feb 2022 #13
He should be disbarred for conflicts of interest among other things... JudyM Feb 2022 #14
The link 404-ed for me, but soldierant Feb 2022 #15
Can't wait... appmanga Feb 2022 #16
"Erect" and "Clarence Thomas" were both in the first sentence Polybius Feb 2022 #17
I've got money on Thomas writing the opinion in Students for Fair Admission v Harvard Calista241 Feb 2022 #18
Do Georgia's repugs think erecting a statue KS Toronado Feb 2022 #19
I can't wait James48 Feb 2022 #20
Will it be placed next to a historical recreation of... LudwigPastorius Feb 2022 #22
Will inscription include "Affirmative-Action Receipient..." before his name...? Grins Feb 2022 #24
Why don't they cut out the middleman tavernier Feb 2022 #27
Create the monument and then literally blast it. milestogo Feb 2022 #28

RobinA

(9,894 posts)
25. I Have To Say, I Am
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 01:45 PM
Feb 2022

I can't imagine that this would occur to anyone on any side of the fence. The man has not distinguished himself in any way except utter lack of distinction. AND he's a pouter and a whiner.

COL Mustard

(5,906 posts)
2. I'm of the opinion that we should not have monuments to living people.
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 09:05 PM
Feb 2022

That said, when does construction start on this one?

Evolve Dammit

(16,743 posts)
4. Fewest comments of any supreme ever while serving on the bench. His conflict of interest looms
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 09:08 PM
Feb 2022

large with wife an active seditionist. May more emerge.
Statue? Please.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
5. Good trade
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 09:08 PM
Feb 2022

If Thomas dies soon they can have their statue...

edit to add theres got to be a good joke in here somewhere about what a great facsimile of a statue he has portrayed throughout his time on the bench...

SouthernDem4ever

(6,617 posts)
6. Oh boy, now I have two reasons to vomit
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 09:09 PM
Feb 2022

One is when i see Ronald Reagan Blvd, the other will be Clarence Thomas' statue.

Hekate

(90,719 posts)
9. Hmmm. Possibly Coke can be used to anoint his memorial. Should draw lots of ants and flies...
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 09:20 PM
Feb 2022

… and other unattractive things.

appmanga

(571 posts)
16. Can't wait...
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 10:33 PM
Feb 2022

...to take a nice healthy dump at Uncle Justice Thomas' head. That's for his grave. I'll just piss on his statue.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
18. I've got money on Thomas writing the opinion in Students for Fair Admission v Harvard
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 10:50 PM
Feb 2022

which guts affirmative action in the US. That case will be his legacy and major contribution to SC jurisprudence.

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