Regarding ”The hands that fed Judge Thomas,” a guest column by Rosemary L. Bray in the July 26 Tribune:
Ms. Bray`s praise of her family`s deception, her father ”who hid when the case workers came to visit,” thereby enabling her family to wrongly obtain welfare payments, belies her claim that she shares the same moral compass as Supreme Court appointee Clarence Thomas, who similarly received a Catholic education from ”white face” nuns.
Perhaps, as Ms. Bray seems to suggest, Clarence Thomas should not have learned moral integrity from his poverty-stricken childhood in the racial cruelty of the American South. But it appears he learned it nevertheless, and this is precisely where Clarence Thomas and Rosemary Bray ”part company,” as she suggests.
This is the result wrought by our national predilection of promoting opportunity over accomplishment-we should now consider such fraud virtuous.
Now more then ever, this country needs a Clarence Thomas, someone who has not only kept his moral compass, but perhaps even lets it guide him from time to time.
