Shelby Steele on Clarence Thomas
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As I read the article in which Shelby Steele, a black conservative (is this an oxymoron?) defended another black conservative, Clarence Thomas, I was reminded of what James Baldwin said some years ago: “You can’t tell a Negro by the color of his skin.”
MARY THIERRY TEXEIRA, Yucaipa
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