How Clarence Thomas orchestrated a new obstacle for Black students | Saida Grundy

The supreme court's ruling ending race-conscious admissions shifts the burden of proving' racism to the college essay

Those who knew Justice Clarence Thomas during his formative years at College of the Holy Cross and Yale Law School have long noted the sharp ideological turn he took over the course of his life: from admiring Malcolm X and protesting racism alongside his Black classmates to deeply resenting the affirmative action policies that afforded him his success.

That switch may have occurred most pointedly during his time at Yale, when, in Thomas's own recollection, a white admissions officer told him and a group of Black students that none of them was qualified to be there.