Justice Says Law Degree 'Worth 15 Cents'
source: http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8SDRABO6
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in the 1970s for his difficulty finding a job after he graduated.
Some of his black classmates say Thomas needs to get over his grudge because Yale opened the door to extraordinary opportunities.
Thomas' new autobiography, "My Grandfather's Son," shows how the second black justice on the Supreme Court came to oppose affirmative action after his law school experience. He was one of about 10 blacks in a class of 160 who had arrived at Yale after the unrest of the 1960s, which culminated in a Black Panther Party trial in New Haven that nearly caused a large-scale riot.
Some of his black classmates say Thomas needs to get over his grudge because Yale opened the door to extraordinary opportunities.
Thomas' new autobiography, "My Grandfather's Son," shows how the second black justice on the Supreme Court came to oppose affirmative action after his law school experience. He was one of about 10 blacks in a class of 160 who had arrived at Yale after the unrest of the 1960s, which culminated in a Black Panther Party trial in New Haven that nearly caused a large-scale riot.
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Tori
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Wait, what?? Clarence Thomas gets to go to Yale Law School, due to affirmative action. He ends up a Supreme Court Justice. And yet somehow he's pissed at Yale for giving him the opportunity for that education which was not insignificant in landing him a spot on the top court in the country?? Does he think he would have had an easier time finding a job had he not had Yale on his resume?? It is not Yale's fault that employers at the time were racist.
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Tori
