All black people are leftists. Clarence Thomas is not a leftist. Therefore, Clarence Thomas is not a black people.

So goes the logic at the New Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum.

According to the weekly standard, Clarence Thomas is nowhere to be found.

One of only two Supreme Court justices has been black in American history.

Perhaps the court's finest modern thinker, yes, I think even better than Justice Scalia, whose insistence on stare decisis marred the consistency

of his originalism. Thomas is a major judicial figure in the history of the United States.

There is only one reason he's missing. He's conservative. That's the reason HBO made a full-scale

documentary about the discredited Anita Hill charges.

It's why the left gets to consistently insist that Thomas is some sort of idiot for not asking questions during oral argument, a useless procedure given that the justices have generally made up their minds already.

Even the museum includes items from the Anita Hill debacle, according to the weekly standard.

They say, quote, inside the museum, Hill and her supporters receive significant attention with

photos and quotations, and on the museum's website, you can see a button that reads,

I believe, Anita Hill. Museum officials conceded to Circo reporter Rafi Williams,

that Justice Thomas's own story has, quote, very little presence in any of the exhibitions.

That's putting it rather generously. This is the sick double standard of the left. If you're a leftist black person,

you can commit virtually any sin and withstand it. If you're a prominent conservative

black person, you must be memory-hold. That's because the left identifies people by group

characteristic and insists it is the greatest protector of victimized groups. If certain members

of those supposed victim groups refuse to see themselves as victims,

and instead they insist on thinking along conservative lines, they must be cast out,

lest they represent a living testament to the falsity of leftist thought.

And so Clarence Thomas disappears.

...