06-27-2015, 04:16 PM
(06-27-2015, 02:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Thomas may very well have been forced to drop out of school and work to support the family if he had not been taken in by a well-to-do relative. Or he may have been forced to attend a "black" high school that did not have the resources to allow him to take full advantage of his academic abilities.
I am not saying Thomas didn't work hard. But the fact is that he had advantages that many others in his position did not posses. He was given a place to live and got the chance to attend a white high school.
A man with his brains and work ethic probably would not have ended up in poverty, but there is a good chance he would not have gone to Yale and become a Supreme Court Justice.
There is a good chance that the overwhelming majority of Americans won't go to Yale or become a Supreme Court Justice regardless of how much money they come from.
