06-27-2015, 12:10 AM
(06-26-2015, 11:27 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I'm curious to find out why Matt's friends called him an Uncle Tom because of his thoughts.
Part of it is that people claim he would never have gotten into Yale Law school in the first place if it had not been for preferential admission policies for minorities. Then he preached against any sort of affirmative action.
Thomas has complained that when he graduated from Yale his accomplishment was diminished because people thought he just got in because he was black.
From what I understand no one can tell for sure if he got into Yale just because he was black, but some people also claim he rose through the ranks so quickly because he was a token black Republican.
Basically it is impossible to prove either side of the argument. So liberals blacks can still call him a hypocritical Uncle Tom and conservatives can hold him up as the paradigm of a self-made black man.
