Justice Thomas and the Yale Curve!

As anyone who has engaged in legal hiring knows Yale has a rather, shall we say, skewed curve. Like cohorts from Harvard that graduate in the middle of their class, Yalies who graduate in the middle of their class are not exactly sought out. Nor are they thought of as the best and the brightest. The best that many recruiters think is that they merely showed up. So for our Junior Justice at SCOTUS to be upset that he wasn’t inundated with offers just because he went to Yale is a tad disingenuous.

Thomas resents the fact that he couldn't get a job despite graduating in the middle of his class. Maybe prospective employers thought his white classmates were smarter, or maybe they just didn't want to hire a black man.

The question remains “Why didn’t he excel at Yale?” If he was so qualified to be there that is? Maybe his worst fears about “Affirmative Action” were right in his case and if he indeed was just a “brown body” as he insists then I guess he was right about the perception based on his personal experience that is: he wasn’t qualified and the worst excesses of “Affirmative Action” were exercised in his case. And his record at Yale proved them right as some examples of “Affirmative Action” are failures. And some of those failures who suck up to the right folks at the right time end up proving the Peter Principle.

Not to mention getting a life time appointment to the highest court in the land.

As always I thank Mr. Eugene Robinson of the WAPO for his thoughts on the subject.

JMHO!