I paraphrase one of Justice Clarence Thomas’s best lines, a most devastating rebuke of the largely white liberal/lawyer/judicial class whose pretensions and pontifications about racial preferences conceal what is in actuality soft racism.

Concurring in his court’s invalidation of race-based assignments of kids to public schools (for the good of the kids), Justice Thomas took aim at Justice Stephen Breyer’s dissent in Parents Involved in Comm. Schools v. Seattle, a patronizing racial screed if ever there was one. Justice Thomas closed with this now legendary warning: “Beware of elites bearing race theories.”

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