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ATLANTA (TND) — A Democratic state senator in Georgia called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an "Uncle Tom" this week while arguing the longtime justice doesn't deserve a monument at the state capitol.
"I know it's very, very sensitive to talk about race in this body," Democratic Sen. Emanuel Jones said on the floor of the General Assembly Tuesday. "But anytime that we have a resolution -- legislation -- proposing to place a statue of Clarence Thomas on this grounds, we cannot avoid that conversation, so I'm not going to avoid it either."
In the Black community, we have an expression," Jones continued. "And I don't want to use this label too deeply here because I'm just trying to tell you what we have in African American communities when we talk about a person of color that goes back historically to days of slavery & that person betraying his own community. We have a term in the black community. That term that we use is called 'Uncle Tom.'"
Jones noted that he "couldn't help but to think about that term" during the consideration of S.B. 69, a bill seeking to add a statue of Thomas to the state capitol, arguing Thomas's policies, practices, decisions & votes "seek to subvert, some may even say suppress the achievements & accomplishments of people of color."
Jones went on to admit that he doesn't "really know the origin of Uncle Tom," but said it tells a story of a person, "who back during the days of slavery sold his soul to the slave masters."
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Georgia State Sen. Emanuel Jones (D) calls U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” while opposing a bill to place a statue of Thomas at the capitol:
— The Recount (@therecount) February 15, 2023
“Y’all just don’t get it. And I don’t expect people of non-color to get the sensitivity that we feel.” pic.twitter.com/AzVxQr1UY9
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