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• Debate:Affirmative Action in the United States, con side.

Clarence Thomas in advocating a "color-blind" approach

• "Let him alone" theme:
  • "In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us... .Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury."[1]
  • "If you see him on his way to school, let him alone, don't disturb him! If you see him going to the dinner table at a hotel, let him go! If you see him going to the ballot- box, let him alone, don't disturb him! If you see him going into a work-shop, just let him alone."
• Clarence Thomas was effected largely by his experience at and after Yale. He said that his Yale degree was worth no more than 15 cents, largely because he believed employers and society chalked up his attainment of this degree to affirmative action programs, instead of to his own achievements.[2]