{"id":1848531,"date":"2023-02-15T13:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848531"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:54:34","slug":"georgia-lawmaker-calls-clarence-thomas-uncle-tom-after-admitting-he-doesnt-know-who-uncle-tom-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-lawmaker-calls-clarence-thomas-uncle-tom-after-admitting-he-doesnt-know-who-uncle-tom-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Lawmaker Calls Clarence Thomas \u2018Uncle Tom\u2019 \u2014 After Admitting He Doesn\u2019t Know Who Uncle Tom Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-lawmaker-calls-clarence-thomas-uncle-tom-after-admitting-he-doesnt-know-who-uncle-tom-is%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848531&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Georgia State Sen. Emanuel Jones (D-Decatur) admitted that he wasn\u2019t sure whether \u201cUncle Tom\u201d Was a real person, or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org\/harriet-beecher-stowe\/uncle-toms-cabin\/\">Fictional character<\/a> He used the name to attack sitting Supreme Court Justices <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/whoopi-lectures-clarence-thomas-on-diversity-suggests-he-was-an-affirmative-action-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence Thomas<\/a> Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Jones took to the State Senate floor to argue against a Republican-led proposal to place a statue of Thomas \u2013 a Georgia native \u2014 on the grounds of the state Capitol, and he compared Thomas to a slave who had \u201csold his soul\u201d His white master.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Left is so upset by the proposal to build Clarence Thomas&#8217; statue at the Georgia Capitol that one unhinged lawmaker likened him to an &#8220;anarchist&#8221;. \u201cUncle Tom\u201d Who \u201csold his soul to the slave masters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See for yourself the hatred, radicalism and violence of the far Left. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dt1F7bYzoJ\">pic.twitter.com\/dt1F7bYzoJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KLoeffler\/status\/1625612094367211525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot avoid that conversation so I\u2019m not going to avoid it either,\u201d Jones spoke out about the controversy surrounding the statue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the black community we have an expression \u2014 and I don\u2019t want to use this label too deeply here because I\u2019m just trying to tell you what we have in the African American community when we talk about a person of color that goes back historically to the days of slavery and that person betraying his own community \u2014 we have a term in the black community,\u201d Jones began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat term that we use is called \u2018Uncle Tom,&#8217;\u201d He added, \u201cAnd \u2018Uncle Tom\u2019 is a \u2014 either fictional or a non-fictional character, I don\u2019t really know the origin of \u2018Uncle Tom\u2019 \u2014 but it talks about a person who, back during the days of slavery, sold his soul to the slave masters,\u201d Jones continued.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol-beat.org\/2023\/02\/georgia-senate-approves-proposal-to-install-clarence-thomas-statue-at-state-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Only explanation<\/a> Jones gave \u2014 after first suggesting that white people would not necessarily understand his concerns \u2014 for accusing Thomas of such betrayal was a vague reference to his position on certain LGBTQ+ issues and the assertion that his decisions had outraged women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0expect\u00a0people\u00a0of\u00a0non-color\u00a0to\u00a0get\u00a0the\u00a0sensitivity\u00a0that\u00a0we\u00a0feel\u00a0about\u00a0a\u00a0person\u00a0of\u00a0color\u00a0whose\u00a0policies and\u00a0practices\u00a0and decisions\u00a0and\u00a0votes\u00a0\u2026\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0rallied\u00a0[to]\u00a0fight\u00a0against,\u201d He said that he added, \u201cJustice Thomas\u2019 decisions have certainly sparked outrage [among] women and not just women of color, but all women. And certainly, when we look at the LGBTQ+ community, his votes and positions he\u2019s taken have raised outrage in that community as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure passed along party lines \u2014 32-20 \u2014 and will be sent to the Georgia State House for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia State Sen. Emanuel Jones (D-Decatur) admitted that he wasn\u2019t sure whether \u201cUncle Tom\u201d was a real person or a fictional character when he used the label to attack sitting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday. Jones took to the State Senate floor to argue against a Republican-led proposal to place a statue of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1848534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[17407,3755,10217,7118,4977,3914,3618,10215,8081,9960],"class_list":["post-1848531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-admitting","tag-calls","tag-clarence","tag-doesnt","tag-georgia","tag-lawmaker","tag-riot","tag-thomas","tag-tom","tag-uncle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}