This week, Clarence Thomas delivered a shocker in the high court’s decision against draining the lifeblood pumping through the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

He actually outdid his arch-conservative overseer, Antonin Scalia, in giving black folks the middle finger.

By an 8 to 1 vote, the high court decided that the time wasn’t quite right to discard a provision of the act that requires most Deep South states and more than 12,000 municipalities to seek permission from the Justice Department before changing polling places or times or reshaping electoral districts or any number of other things that could make it tough for blacks or other minorities to cast votes.

Of course, the court narrowed the act a bit by lifting the pre-clearance provision for the Texas water district that brought the lawsuit and by allowing municipalities that have a clean record to ask for a bailout.

Still, the court’s eight white justices – even Scalia – decided not to gut the act that made it possible for blacks across the South to vote without having to recite the Constitution or to guess how many bubbles were in a bar of soap.

The only black one, Thomas, didn’t.

In a dissent, Thomas wrote that the South had changed enough so that the act was no longer needed. Said that “the violence, intimidation and subterfuge that led Congress to pass Section 5 and this court to uphold it no longer remains.”

C’mon, Clarence. Things haven’t changed that damn much. At least not in the direction that the Old South holdouts who run the show would prefer.

Sure, black voters won’t encounter epithet-spewing Ku Klux Klansmen or racists armed with ridiculous requests as they did during the Jim Crow days. They’ll run up against more subtle stuff.

Stuff like finding that their usual polling place has been moved to a neighborhood that is five miles away – and impossible for them to get to before the polls close. Stuff   like cumbersome voter identification laws and other obstacles that can hinder them from exercising their right to vote.

A look at the electoral map shows that the above scenarios aren’t born of paranoia, but of reality.

Right now the Republican party – a party that built its ranks by playing to the fears of Southern whites – has largely been isolated to that region of the country. John McCain, the vanquished GOP presidential contender, carried pre-clearance states such as Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas.

Those states have every reason to fear huge turnouts of black and minority voters  – something that could possibly upset the outcome in certain contests and further loosen their grip on power.

And here’s another bit of news bound to strike fear in the hearts of worried Southerners: In Texas, the number-one name for male newborns is Jose - meaning that one day, Latinos will overwhelm whites at the polls. Meaning that one day, black and Latino voters could possibly swing Southern states in directions that many whites don’t want to go.

I doubt that many whites in the South – people who already feel besieged and isolated by President Barack Obama’s victory – will take those changes lightly.

In fact, they’ve already come out swinging.

I mean, there’s the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, reviving talk of secession rather than follow the policies of the nation’s first black president. Then there’s South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who preferred to see his impoverished state suffer even more than accept money from Obama.

There’s Rusty DePass, South Carolina’s former state election director, who made a Facebook comment likening Michelle Obama’s ancestors to an escaped gorilla, and Mike Green, another South Carolina GOP operative, who made on online .....

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You have to let an idiot be an idiot.

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Boe
June 26, 2009, 10:29 pm
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CT is a very bitter black man and is taking it out on his race, he should be taken off the supreme court for Incompetence.

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Baron
June 26, 2009, 1:15 pm
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He is one bitter black man with a lot of mental issues. He thinks he is god or above every black inthe world and I hope he realizes that the low paying nursing home workers are black and I hope they have to take care of his sorry behind. I still believe he was guilty in the Anita Hill scandal, who would want him.

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Deniserenee
June 25, 2009, 11:29 am
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He has decided that he's going to make us pay for his childhood. He's on the Supreme Court now! Don't you wonder what else he is holding back to unleash?

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Scchica
June 25, 2009, 10:46 am
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Clarence Thomas is mentally challenged and needs to be removed from the Supreme Court. His anger against black people will consume him and destroy him. Watch...

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Sherylok1
June 24, 2009, 4:09 pm
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thiswas to be expected from this foolish negro. what a disgrace to the black race he is.

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Spercy
June 24, 2009, 3:45 pm
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.......and he probably considers himself a NATURAL BLONDE.now that his hair has grayed!!!!!
LOL!!!!

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Rubinisk
June 24, 2009, 3:30 pm
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C.T.----my fav person!! I just know-just KNOW this man walks around in his black robe--literally 24hrs.a day!!! It is THAT or he ONLY frequents those establishments that KNOW & RECOGNIZE him,once he leaves the comfort of his home!!!!

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Rubinisk
June 24, 2009, 3:26 pm
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Clarence Thomas is a white man trapped in a black man's body. He must be, to have been born and raised in the south during a time in which so many injustices were levied against black people, and to himself have witnessed and perhaps suffered those injustices (if not him, then certainly family members), and then to grow up and become a republican and carry the mindset that he does. This man is a fool, and unfortunately for black people, he is a fool in a high place.

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Jacquelynn4
June 24, 2009, 3:09 pm
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Enough of your buffoonery Clarence Thomas, You are a Supreme Court Justice now, you can stop kissing white America's azz

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Rozzyt
June 24, 2009, 2:49 pm
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Clarence 'Uncle Tom' Thomas is at it again! This ignorant man should be ashamed of himself! I hope that President Obama get another chance to appoint a judge that will neutralize this fool. Thomas belongs to another age many eons ago! I wonder WHAT WOULD JEWS AND ARABS DO IF A JUDGE OF THEIR BACKGROUND CONTINUE TO BETRAY THEM?

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SPF
June 24, 2009, 2:33 pm
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Justice Thomas is a disgrace to all !! I am so ashame to say that he is a Black American.

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Dtaylor1
June 24, 2009, 12:51 pm
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Evidently Justice Thomas is living in an America that is in his mind and his mind only. Obviously he's delusional and probably should be receiving medication to curb his hallucinations and he should be in psychotherapy at least 3 times a week! What's really scary is that he's on the Supreme Court for life, or until HE decides to step down!

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Jmsimon
June 24, 2009, 11:55 am
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Ratdog: I feel you, but I disagree that Thomas is selfish. I don’t think he’s “ALLOWED” to be selfish. He’s just a loyal lap dog of racists & he hates Black people more than Bill Wilkerson&their cousin, BAW writer, Gregory Kane, who has written an article celebrating Thomas, while condemning Malcolm x. Yeah, America HAS evolved, but racists & Toms have not. It seems they will always remain the same.

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Sevennotrump
June 24, 2009, 11:34 am
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1st chance I’ve had 2 check this board in a couple of days. I must’ve missed that racist “uncletom
aka, “jiggy5’s” comment, somehow defending Thomas’ vote & blaming it on Obama. “Gatorhots” also believes Thomas is an admirable character. This is not Thomas’ 1st time going against Scalia. Once the court voted 8-1 overturning a lower court who allowed all Black jurors to be removed during voir dire, claiming that didn’t mean the brother wouldn’t have got a fair trial.

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Sevennotrump
June 24, 2009, 11:33 am
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Clarence Thomas is nothing more than a 21st century house n****! You know, the one that will sell out his brothers for a pallet on the massa's house and a piece of cornbread!! They need to evaluate his psychiatric stability, because a real man--a real BLACK man does not and cannot even have this type of mentality.

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Ms_one
June 24, 2009, 11:32 am
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Thomas is so sad. Nothing has really changed except the techniques used to furthur racism

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RaaSaa
June 24, 2009, 11:03 am
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Please! Uncle Tom Clarence is not fooling anyone he is operating on a much larger scale. Since he is the donkey for many conservatives that think alike he will usually always think and become the front man for wayward thinking. Thomas is one self centered person that ultimately believes it's all about me and now I have made it and nothing else matters. the old pull yourself up by your bootstraps. however most of us do not have any bootstraps to pull ourselves up from. Sad, Sad, Sad, this is one sad pathethic person.

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Ratdog
June 24, 2009, 9:30 am
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This man never ceases to amaze me. I often wonder if he understands that the same white man that will call me N**** sees him the same way. Only they add uppity to the phrase. I bet he dreams of having that disease that takes the pigmentation out of your skin.

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Rbellie98
June 24, 2009, 9:22 am
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Once again Justice Uncle Tom has reinforced the Jim Crow era by insisting that the glass ceiling does not exist and people of color are on equal footing as their white counterparts. Uncle Tom has revealed his white sheet once again; It is very sad that a black man has so much disdain for his own race and it is so obvious that he INHERENTLY despises his own people. He is a pathetic, miserable human being!

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Barackie
June 24, 2009, 9:18 am
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You know I feel sorry for his family. I wonder if they feel like this uncle tom. I bet every morning in the mirror when washing his face the uncle tom is rubbing his face to see if is black is going to rub off. He's rubbing so hard for that to come off his face is bleeding.

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Bdishman
June 24, 2009, 8:41 am
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Diggie got to vote because of the Voter's Right Act. If some white folks were not scared of the minority vote, then why have all these problems when it comes time to vote? Or is that the "right" leaning folks who looks at everything as all is well as long as it is pleasing to them.

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Lukesolo1
June 24, 2009, 8:35 am
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What a surprise ol Clarence voted against the Voter's Right Act. Here is the SAME individual who was given the chance by Affirmative Action laws that provided him the boots and boot straps to pull himself up out the deep south to the elite aristocrats of society; then Clarence has become all the common theme. To Diggie, you are right about the murders, and other ills, but answer this how could you ever have been denied voting.if my math is correct; you would not have been denied in 1983? Your point is very pointless..if you were born 20 yrs earlier, then you can speak.

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Lukesolo1
June 24, 2009, 8:31 am
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That jizza got's to still be smokin' crack!

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Statemal
June 24, 2009, 7:56 am
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Too bad Mr Thoms isn't a supporter of Black America...He is devoted to whatever cause he takes up.....He is also deteremined to not let America believe that he got to where he is because of Affirmitive Action...

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Diggie44
June 24, 2009, 7:47 am
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Give me a break! I was born and raised in the deep south. After 45 years I HAVE NEVER been barred from voting. So in my opinion Justice Thomas is absolutely correct. Times have changed dramatically, but we have people that want to live in the past. I wish there was this much disdain for the drug dealers, and murderers that destroy black communities exponentially worse than one mans vote on the Supreme Court. But I know that common sense does not fit well in the black liberal agenda.

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Uncletom
June 24, 2009, 7:47 am
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Clarence Thomas is an example of the worst of the uncle toms. He may be the worst of all times. There must be serious self-hate in his psych. The fact that he won't be able to take the black off, he will just have to be tormented by it.

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Rbattle3
June 24, 2009, 7:45 am
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sad state to see clarence thomas screwing blacks once again!.he doesn't care about the law or civil rights at all.what planet does he comes from?oh, i forgot he's still a bush-in-law!.hahaha

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Quita32
June 24, 2009, 5:20 am
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