Justice Clarence Thomas And The Declaration Of Independence
By: Star Parker
Thank you Justice Thomas for your fine remarks about our great exceptional America and its founding document, the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 that we celebrate 🎊🎉🎆🦅🗽🇺🇸every July 4th, our Independence Day! 245 years as a 1776 nation. Our declaration states that we have a Creator who created us as equals in His sight and that he endowed us with our inalienable human rights. The document appeals to almighty God as to the justness of our cause and aspired us to greatness. Truly America 🇺🇸 is an exceptional nation despite those 1619 anti American progressives who deny that any good at all came out of this nation.
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Justice Clarence Thomas And The Declaration Of Independence
Star Parker | Sep 25, 2021 | Commentary | 8
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Last week, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas arrived at the University of Notre Dame to speak about the Declaration of Independence.
Speaking invitations like this that Thomas accepts are few and far between.
Anyone who cares about our country and listens to this address will wish that he would agree to speak more.
His presentation was a brilliant and profound articulation of what America is about at its core.
It is what every American needs to hear in these troublesome and divisive times.
Thomas tells his own story and how his life’s journey led him to understand what America is about.
He grew up poor near Savannah, Georgia, raised by his grandparents, under the tutelage of his grandfather, a devout Catholic and American patriot.
Thomas’ grandfather understood that the injustices of the country were not about flaws in the country but about flaws in human beings in living up to ideals handed down to them. What needed to be fixed were the people — not the nation.
This insight strikes at the heart of the divisions going on today that are so bitterly dividing us.
But Thomas left his grandfather’s house and went to college in the midst of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and Thomas became filled with bitterness and the sense that America is an irredeemably flawed, racist nation, which is so much in the spirit of the times today.
In his own words, “What had given my life meaning and sense of belonging, that this country was my home, was jettisoned as old-fashioned and antiquated. … It was easy and convenient to fill that void with victimhood. … So much of my time focused intently on our racial differences and grievances, much like today.”
“As I matured,” Thomas continued, “I began to see that the theories of my young adulthood were destructive and self-defeating…..I had rejected my country, my birthright as a citizen, and I had nothing to show for it.”
“The wholesomeness of my childhood had been replaced with an emptiness, cynicism, and despair. I was faced with the simple fact that there was no greater truth than what my Nuns and grandparents had taught me. We are all children of God and rightful heirs to our nation’s legacy of equality. We had to live up to the obligations of the equal citizenship to which we were entitled by birth.”
As he continued work in the federal government, Thomas became “deeply interested in the Declaration of Independence.”
“The Declaration captured what I had been taught to venerate as a child but had cynically rejected as a young man. All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.”
“As I had rediscovered the God-given principles of the Declaration and our founding, I eventually returned to the church, which had been teaching the same truths for millennia.”
Despite the strident voices dividing us today, Thomas observes “there are many more of us, I think, who feel America is not so broken, as it is adrift at sea.”
“For whatever it is worth, the Declaration of Independence has weathered every storm for 245 years. It birthed a great nation. It abolished the sin of slavery. … While we have failed the ideals of the Declaration time and again, I know of no time when the ideals have failed us.”
The Declaration of Independence “establishes a moral ideal that we as citizens are duty-bound to uphold and sustain. We may fall short, but our imperfection does not relieve us of our obligation.”
Thomas’ message about the Declaration may be summarized: There are eternal truths; they are true for all of humanity; and it is the personal responsibility of each individual to live up to them.
Thomas’ detractors are those who reject these premises. This defines the culture war that so deeply and dangerously divides America today.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Clarence Thomas is nothing but a Supreme Court front for his bat-shit crazy wife who is a die-hard Republican. She tells him what to think, what to say and how to vote. The decisions he makes as a Supreme Court Justice are not his own. It is very well known and it has always been that way.
she's a fucking teabag terrorist.
Totally agree. Have you seen her talk? It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid, and it's hard to tell which one tells the most lies, her or Trump.
The Tea Party movement is far, far outside the American political mainstream, but if you believe the John Birch Society was within the political mainstream, you might be under the same misimpression about the radical extremist Tea Party movement.
Virginia Thomas is a lunatic fringe right-wing extremist.
Hear! Hear!
The John Birch Society is the progenitor of the Tea Party idiocy, the QLoons and the Trumpist-Fascists, and, if anything, as today's version, they are more far right, more extremist than the Birchers.
For a fuller understanding, see the following:
As for Sarah Palin, a box of rocks has a higher I.Q.
Right on!
Link?
Wow!
The Declaration of Independence abolished slavery?
Who knew?
Gee...if it wasn't for XX we'd all still be living in the dark.
What a totally stupid comment. But, consider the source.......
You are still on Ignore. But, as YOU well know, when I post to one of your seeds, which is indeed very rare, you are not ignored.
As for the value of your racist, untrue and false "contributions" being so "Priceless", you are living in a dream world. No Value would be a better term for your "contributions".
There's a shining example of just how humble you are Xx.
It appears that he is taking lessons from his worshiped master, Trump. And that is sooo laughable.
I have no doubt that you believe those words about your...contributions. It's unfortunate, however, that because you believe them, you fail to convey your intended message...over and over and over again. Priceless to one, becomes pointless to many.
Time for another article about the racism of the founding fathers. As long as xx feels compelled to post propaganda praising the founding fathers every single day I may feel compelled to post contra information.
Well...someone should. It would be a fun contest to see which one could out last the other. (wink)
It depends how pissed I get. If that happens there are no limits.
I dont mind occasional positive stories about 1776. But just about every day? Ridiculous.