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DONKEY: Supreme Court Clarence Thomas Says He Has No ‘Clue’ What Diversity Means in College Admissions Case · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: You could call me the donkey of the day, but
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  Speaker 1: like I mean normal donkey Today for Tuesday November, first,
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  Speaker 1: go to the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't heard, the Supreme Court's conservative majority appears likely
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  Speaker 1: to abolish race conscious university admissions. What does that mean? Well,
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  Speaker 1: nearly twenty years ago, to US Supreme Court determined that
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  Speaker 1: universities may consider racing their admissions process and an effort
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  Speaker 1: to achieve a more diverse campus. But on yesterday, Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: that spooky as Supreme Court was confronting the role of
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  Speaker 1: racing college admissions. In fact, the conservative justices repeatedly doubted
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  Speaker 1: whether universities would reach an endpoint in race conscious admissions.
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  Speaker 1: They want to in affirmative action in college admissions. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to KTLA five for the report. Please, big changes
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  Speaker 1: could be coming to college campuses across the country. Mynity
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  Speaker 1: can never be limited to my acadetic standing. As student
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  Speaker 1: protesters gathered in the rain outside the US Supreme Court today,
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  Speaker 1: the justices considered eliminating affirmative action for college applications. I've
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  Speaker 1: heard word diversity quite a few times, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a clue what it means, it seems to mean
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  Speaker 1: everything for everyone. No vote today, but the conservative members
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  Speaker 1: of the Court appear ready to end race consideration for
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  Speaker 1: college admissions. Chief Justice John Roberts insisted there's no clarity
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  Speaker 1: on when affirmative action would end. Your position is that
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  Speaker 1: race matters because it's necessary for diversity, which is necessary
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  Speaker 1: for the sort of education you want. It's not going
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  Speaker 1: to stop mattering at some particular point. You're always going
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  Speaker 1: to have to look at race because you say race
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  Speaker 1: matters to give us the necessary diversity. Justice Katanji, Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson and other liberals argue ending affirmative action would deny
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  Speaker 1: students their rights to equal protection, and many students agree.
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  Speaker 1: Dame Clarence, if real name is Clarence and Clarence lives
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  Speaker 1: at home thinking he's a racist white parry. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to tell you how this decision would dramatically
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  Speaker 1: reduce enrollment rates amongst students of color, do I. I
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  Speaker 1: also don't have to tell you why this is yet
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  Speaker 1: another reason why they should expand the Supreme Court. I've
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  Speaker 1: been telling y'all four things that need to be done
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  Speaker 1: to protect democracy. Eliminate the fillibusses, so you can properly legislate,
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  Speaker 1: protect voting rights, prosecute everybody involved in the attempted core
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  Speaker 1: of his country on January sixth, and expand the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Not doing that, it's led to women's reproductive
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  Speaker 1: rights being taken away and no telling what other rights
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  Speaker 1: will be taken away. And this seems to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the next ones on the chopping block. I could
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  Speaker 1: give them donkey to day for just considering this. But
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  Speaker 1: what I'm giving Clarence donkey of the day for is
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  Speaker 1: being a black man who constantly not only votes against
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  Speaker 1: his own interests and the interest to people who look
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  Speaker 1: like him. Okay, Notice I didn't say his own people,
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  Speaker 1: because he doesn't identify as one of us. But he's
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  Speaker 1: always voting against the interests of his own people. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: whether he knows he's one of us or not, right,
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  Speaker 1: but not only voting against us. He doesn't even understand
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  Speaker 1: the basics of what it is to be one of us.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Look, we know that a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: our diversity hires, all right, especially in government. Clarence Thomas
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  Speaker 1: was a diversity higher at least on the surface. All Right.
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  Speaker 1: We have all these conversations about diversity and inclusion and equity,
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  Speaker 1: but Clarence Thomas doesn't even know what that is. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: he said he doesn't know what diversity is. Plead that
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  Speaker 1: again for me, right, mister Park. I've heard the word
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  Speaker 1: diversity quite a few times, and I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: clue what it means. It seems to mean everything for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think diversity means a lot of different things
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of different people. Me here one more time,
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  Speaker 1: mister Park. I've heard the word diversity quite a few
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  Speaker 1: times and I don't have a clue what it means.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to mean everything for everyone. That explains a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We know what diversity is. What's the textbook definition of
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  Speaker 1: diversity is the practice our quality of including our involving
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  Speaker 1: people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds
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  Speaker 1: and of different genders, sexual orientations. Raised example, Equality and
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  Speaker 1: diversity should be supported for their own sake, right, which
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  Speaker 1: why I don't understand how a black man doesn't support
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  Speaker 1: diversity for his own sake and not just support even
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. It is Clarence Thomas that delusion
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  Speaker 1: know about who he is. Clarence Thomas, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be diversity. The problem is you clearly don't know you black, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I truly agree that you probably don't know what
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  Speaker 1: diversity is or what it represents because you don't represent it.
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  Speaker 1: But this doesn't surprise me. All right, Clarence Thomas doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know what diversity is, He don't know what inclusion is.
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  Speaker 1: He probably don't know what black is. Look, man, all
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  Speaker 1: skin folk ain't kin folk. And this is why representation
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  Speaker 1: only matters if the person representing knows they represent Please
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  Speaker 1: let me give Clarence Thomas the biggest he ha he
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  Speaker 1: ha he ha you stupid mother? Are you dumb? And
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  Speaker 1: I rephrase you know this is why representation only matters
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  Speaker 1: if the person representing us knows they representing us? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, okay, all right, well thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: Donkey to day. Now. Yesterday you guys got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to interview the co founder of the Civil Rights Corporation
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  Speaker 1: and Corpse and an attorney for Legal Aid Society. I
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed this conversation. Tell me about it because I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't here. Well, I gotta tell you about it when
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  Speaker 1: they're about to come in next and they can tell
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  Speaker 1: I can't pronounce I know Alec, and I cannot pronounce
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  Speaker 1: that sister's name I call. I was calling her Alec
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  Speaker 1: liam LIAMI. Okay, well, we're gonna speak with them next.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't feel like I'm pronouncing it right, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. Yes, you said, it's a LIAMI. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's just it's brilliant. And I cannot wait for y'all
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  Speaker 1: to hear the work that they're doing. Next. Alright, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that. NeXT's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,