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Thomas Says Yale Degree Worth 15 Cents
Classmates say
he needs to get
over grudge
(AP)— U.S. Supreme Court Jus­
tice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent
price tag stuck to his Yale law de­
gree, blaming the school’s affirma­
tive action policies in the 1970s for
his difficulty finding a job after he
graduated.
Some of his black classmates
say Thomas needs to get over his
grudge because Yale opened the
door to extraordinary opportuni­
ties.
Thom as’ new autobiography,
“My Grandfather’s Son,” shows
how the second black justice on the
Supreme Court came to oppose af­
firmative action after his law school
experience. He was one of about 10
blacks in a class of 160 who had
arrived at Yale after the unrest of
the 1960s, which culminated in a
Black Panther Party trial in New
Haven that nearly caused a large-
scale riot.
The c o n se rv a ­
on the frame.
tive justice says he
His view is n ’t
initially considered
sh ared by black
his adm ission to
classm ate William
Yale a dream, but
Colemanin.
soon felt he was
“I can only say my
there because of his
degree from Yale
race. He says he
Law School has been
loaded up on tough
a great boon," said
courses to prove he
Coleman, now an at­
was not inferior to
torney in Philadel­
his w h ite c la s s ­
phia. “Had he not
mates but considers
gone to a school like
the effort futile. He
Yale, he would not
says he was repeat­
be sitting on the Su­
edly turned down in
preme Court.”
job interviews at law
Thomas said he
firms after his 1974 graduation.
began interviewing with law firms
“1 learned the hard way that a law at the beginning of his third year of
degree from Yale meant one thing law school.
for white graduates and another for
“Many asked pointed questions
blacks, no matter how much any unsubtly suggesting that they
one denied it,” Thomas writes. “I ’ d doubted I was as smart as my grades
graduated from one of America's indicated," he wrote. “Now I knew
top law schools, but racial prefer­ what a law degree from Yale was
ence had robbed my achievement worth when it bore the taint of racial
of its true value.”
preference.”
Thomas says he stores his Yale
He said it was months before he
Law degree in his basement with a got an offer, from then-Missouri
15-cent sticker from a cigar package Attorney General John Danforth.
Steven Duke, a white Yale law
professor who taught when Tho­
mas attended Yale, said Thomas is
right to say that the significance of
someone’s degree could be called
into question if the person was
admitted to an institution on a pref­
erential basis. However, he said
that could be overcome by strong
performance, noting that two Yale
graduates — Danforth and Presi­
dent Bush — put Thomas into top
jobs.
"1 find it difficult to believe he
actually regrets the choice he
made,” Duke said. "It seems to me
he did pretty well.”
Thomas has declined to have his
portrait hung at Yale Law School
along with other graduates who
became U.S. Supreme Court jus­
tices. An earlier book, "Supreme
Discomfort,” by Washington Post
re p o rte rs K evin M erida and
Michael Fletcher, portrays Thomas
as still upset some Yale professors
opposed his confirmation during
hearings marked by Anita Hill’s
allegations that Thomas sexually
harassed her.
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