It Was The Likes Of Clarence TomAss That Made The Slave Trade Possible…

I don’t under­stand you. You sound like my par­ents. You sound like the peo­ple I grew up with.’ But the lessons he tend­ed to draw from the expe­ri­ences of the seg­re­gat­ed South seemed to be dif­fer­ent than those of every­body I know,” Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson report­ed­ly thought while hav­ing lunch with the jus­tice Clarence TomAss as a law clerk.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was nom­i­nat­ed to fill the seat made vacant by the retire­ment of Justice Stephen Breyer. President Biden has cho­sen Breyer’s suc­ces­sor as he is oblig­at­ed to do constitutionally.
Biden pledged if elect­ed, he would appoint a Black woman to the court if a vacan­cy came up. A vacan­cy came up, and the pres­i­dent kept his word in the per­son of Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
Everyone who pays atten­tion to the racial car­ni­vores must know they would come for Jackson to eat her flesh, and so they have. There are those scat­tered across the soci­ety like the racist right-wing groups that have tak­en out adver­tise­ments prais­ing Clarence TomAss, a Black skinned sell­out who vot­ed against every issue that would uplift Black Americans from the despair and degra­da­tion of hun­dreds of years of white oppression.
For them, Clarence TomAss is a hero, but the mod­ern-day sell­out is that slave who runs and tells Massa which enslaved per­son ran away. The one who asks Massa, ” we sick Massa’?
But there are the clowns in the US Senate, begin­ning with Raphael Cruz, who hates him­self for being born Hispanic rather than a European Caucasian, Josh Hawley, who gave aid, com­fort, and suc­cor to insur­rec­tion­ists try­ing to over­throw the duly con­sti­tu­tion­al order of the United States, and should be in prison, Lindsay Graham, [trump’s] errand boy and the oth­er tad­poles like Marsh Blackburn, and Mike Braun.

It is bad enough when some­one like Clarence TomAss is ele­vat­ed to a posi­tion of pow­er, and he does every­thing with­in that pow­er to abuse any­one, much less one of the most dis­ad­van­taged com­mu­ni­ties in the coun­try, the black com­mu­ni­ty from which he came.
But it is ten times worse when some­one of TomAss’s char­ac­ter would be held up as a mod­el for Black people.
It is insult­ing to me as a Black man that I share skin col­or with some­one like Clarence TomAss. that is how much I am offend­ed by him.
The insult­ing thing to me is that any­one would dare advance Clarence TomAss as any­thing but a mod­ern Benedict Arnold, unde­serv­ing of the black skin he lives in.
Make no mis­take; I do not dis­like TomAss because his views run con­trary to mine; I detest him because he is an oppor­tunis­tic racial sell­out who has cap­i­tal­ized on the pain of his race to cur­ry favor with his oppressors.
That makes him the low­est life­form in my view.
During slav­ery, the likes of TomAss would get a few scraps of food thrown their way or may have even been allowed into the house. Harriet Tubman was afraid his type would run back to the slave-own­ers and reveal her routes and sup­port struc­ture. His type was the rea­son she report­ed­ly car­ried a pistol.
If we real­ly want to admit the truth, the likes of Clarence TomAss exist­ed on the shores of Africa, and it was his type that made the North Atlantic Slave trade a possibility.
I am not qual­i­fied to explain the psy­cho­log­i­cal dys­func­tion that goes into the char­ac­ter of some­one like that, so I leave it up to the experts to fig­ure that out. Sufficing to say that it is not an admirable trait, at least not from the per­spec­tive of pro­gres­sive Black peo­ple who val­ue their auton­o­my, agency, and freedoms.

The real­ly pathet­ic thing for white men is that with four months shy of 246 years of American nation­hood dur­ing which they slant­ed things their way, they are scared shit­less that the wall of lies they cre­at­ed are tum­bling down.
No longer does any­one buy into the pro­pa­gan­da that they alone can do it; because as long as they can­not stop us from enter­ing the pool, we will show them that we are just as good a swim­mer or bet­ter than they are.
Whether it’s med­i­cine, art, sports, law, sci­ence, or what­ev­er, they dom­i­nat­ed only because they were allowed to play alone.
One of the things I hard­ly hear any longer is the need for Black peo­ple to be patient. Dr. Martin Luther King warned about ‘the tran­quil drug of grad­u­al­ism’ before being mur­dered by them 54 years ago.
Anyone who believed that the sons and daugh­ters of rapists and mur­der­ers were going to be bet­ter human beings sim­ply because some water had flown under the bridge was grave­ly mistaken.

These are irre­deemable kinds of humans who do not pos­sess the capac­i­ty to co-exist with oth­ers or com­pete on an equal and lev­el play­ing field.
They see the winds of change, and as I said before, they are scared shit­less. If they can turn the clock back on race, you know, stop the teach­ings of their crimes against Black and Native peo­ples, burn the his­to­ry books, ban future ones on the sub­ject, stop black and brown peo­ple from enter­ing the coun­try and force white women to have more babies they see that as a solu­tion to their deplet­ing numbers.
The sad real­i­ty for them is that no sin­gle one of those things will stop the inevitable brown­ing of America, nei­ther will all of those mea­sures combined.
But if all else fails, they are pre­pared to storm the con­gress, over­throw the 246 years of estab­lished order, and insti­tute a white minor­i­ty gov­ern­ment like the one that exist­ed in South Africa.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, a writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.