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Wednesday night, Joe Biden hosted a glitzy reception at the vice president\u2019s residence celebrating Black History Month.<\/p>\n
Make that Liberal Black History Month.<\/p>\n
This is the same Joe Biden who as a chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee 22 years ago presided over the public humiliation of black Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas (which this writer covered) \u2013 a process so racist that Thomas called out Biden\u2019s committee for staging a \u201chigh-tech lynching.\u201d<\/p>\n
But such historical details were conveniently forgotten last night as Biden dined on Peking Duck Crepes and \u00a0preened before a who\u2019s-who list of Washington\u2019s liberal black establishment. Democratic Rep. John Lewis of the Congressional Black Caucus hailed Biden as \u201ctireless warrior\u201d and a \u201cfighter\u201d for civil rights. Biden aw-shucks\u2019d his way through his own remarks lamenting that he didn\u2019t participate in civil rights marches as a kid and then telling his black guests that \u201cI love you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Too bad the love doesn\u2019t extend to Justice Thomas who was not in attendance.<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s remarkable life story brought him from dirt-poor poverty in the segregated south of Pin Point, Georgia to Yale Law School, to Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to Biden\u2019s committee in 1991 as a nominee to the Supreme Court. But Biden voted against Thomas\u2019s nomination after his committee leaked unsubstantiated claims that Thomas was a sexual predator and porn addict (how\u2019s that for black male stereotyping?), then put him on public trial by hearsay that featured \u00a0testimony by Anita Hill, a feminist \u00a0academic once in Thomas\u2019s employ who vehemently opposed the nominee\u2019s legal views.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a circus. It\u2019s a national disgrace,\u201d said Thomas, seething with rage \u00a0in his statement before Biden\u2019s mob. \u201cAnd from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.\u201d (Video\u00a0here<\/a>)<\/p>\n Despite Biden\u2019s efforts, Thomas narrowly won a vote of the full Senate to become only the second black man on the U.S. Supreme Court. Thank you, Vice President Biden, for your contribution to black history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday night, Joe Biden hosted a glitzy reception at the vice president\u2019s residence celebrating Black History Month. Make that Liberal Black History Month. This is the same Joe Biden who as a chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee 22 years ago presided over the public humiliation of black Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas (which this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12447,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions\/12447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}