“I can’t do anything to remove my name from this decision, and that’s frustrating. All I can do is use more words to set the record straight.”
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in support of the Supreme Court's June decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions.“Hi, I just read the affirmative action decision and saw Clarence Thomas cited your book in a footnote in his concurrence to totally misinterpret your work. I’m sure I’m not the first person to share this, but just want the record to show, I am appalled.
Founded in the basement of a church in 1870, Dunbar was once described by the NAACP as “the greatest Negro high school in the world” and became a famous incubator for glass ceiling breakers. When Anna Julia Cooper, one of the great educators and thinkers of the 20th century, was the school’s principal in the early 1900s, she would contact colleges and universities to let them know she had qualified “Negro” candidates. These schools weren’t actively looking to embrace “colored” students. Without Dunbar and Cooper, her students would not have been accepted at Harvard, Brown, Amherst and Williams.
The graduates of Dunbar fought to break barriers by, yes, being great, but also by being present: being in the room, at the table, pulling up a chair to the table and sometimes building the table. It took more than their wits and brains. It took others to help them achieve, and they in turn helped others.Several of the lawyers who argued Brown v.
I learned of Thomas’ misreading of Dunbar’s legacy on the eve of July 4, shortly after leaving the African American History Museum. There, I read about how much a young boy had sold for and saw wood remnants from a slave ship. I even saw photos of a few Dunbar grads, including the first Black general in the U.S. Army.
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