My Grandfather`s Son: A Memoir, by Clarence Thomas
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Civil Rights
Preferential policies should apply to disadvantaged whites.
Affirmative action forever discounts black achievements.
Affirmative action has stigmatizing effects.
Analyzed and advocated unpopular positions on race.
Questions "adverse impact": blacks can catch up with whites.
Black problems should be solved by blacks.
Black problems should be solved by blacks.
Improve black lives, consistent with conservative values.
Censure Bob Jones University for interracial dating ban.
EEOC had difficulty enforcing equal opportunity laws.
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Crime
As radical, imprisoned blacks were political prisoners.
In criminal-appeals, saw blacks were not political prisoners.
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Education
In high school, considered journalism or priesthood.
Graduated high school with strong discipline & strong grades.
School vouchers preferable to busing & welfare.
Focus on improving black colleges, not desegregation.
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Families & Children
As child, worked on family oil truck & family farm.
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Government Reform
1980: Voted for Reagan & against ever-larger government.
Judge's role is to interpret law, not to make policy choices.
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Principles & Values
Raised by grandfather in Geechee culture.
Raised in both rural poverty and urban squalor.
Learned standard English only in high school.
If Church had been more anti-racist, I'd be a priest.
Early member of Black Student Union at Holy Cross.
Member of Black Republican Congressional Staff Association.
A poor Southern black child CAN make it to Supreme Court.
Sexual misconduct is age-old accusation against black men.
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Welfare & Poverty
Opposed to welfare as the "ruination" of blacks.
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The above quotations are from My Grandfather`s Son: A Memoir, by Clarence Thomas.
Autobiographies and Biographies of Governors:
- Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power, by by Bob Ingle and Michael Symons
- Can`t is Not an Option, by Gov. Nikki Haley, April 2012
- Governor`s Travels, by Gov. Angus King, Oct. 2010
- The Governator, by Ian Halperin (about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-CA), Aug. 2011
- The Agenda for America, by Gov. Haley Barbour (R, MS), April 1996
- Blue Man in a Red State, by Greg Lemon, (about Gov. Brian Schweitzer, D, MT), June 2008
- Scorpions for Breakfast, by Gov. Jan Brewer (R, AZ), Nov. 2011
- Crossroads: The Future of American Politics, by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D, NY), Oct. 2003
- A Reason to Believe, by Gov. Deval Patrick (D, MA), April 2011
- Against the Tide, by Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I, RI), April 2008
- Teachers Under Attack, by Mike Spina, about Gov. Chris Christie (R, NJ), Feb. 2011
Press Releases etc. from Governors, Mayors, and Justices:
- Gubernatorial State of the State speeches, 2013
- Gubernatorial State of the State speeches, 2012
- Gubernatorial Press Releases, 2011
- Gubernatorial Press Releases, 2010
- Gubernatorial Press Releases, 2001-2009
- Mayoral Press Releases, 2011
- Gubernatorial Campaign websites, 2010-2011
- Mayoral Campaign websites, 2011
- Gubernatorial State of the State speeches, 2011
- Gubernatorial State of the State speeches, 2010
- Mayorial State of the City speeches, 2007-2011
- Gubernatorial Campaign websites, 2010
- Gubernatorial Campaign websites, 2001-2009
- My Grandfather's Son, by Justice Clarence Thomas, Oct. 2008
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