<p>Georgia State Sen. Emanuel Jones (D-Decatur) admitted that he wasn&#8217;t sure whether &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; was a real person or a <a href="https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin/">fictional character</a> when he used the label to attack sitting Supreme Court Justice <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> on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Jones took to the State Senate floor to argue against a Republican-led proposal to place a statue of Thomas – a Georgia native — on the grounds of the state Capitol, and he compared Thomas to a slave who had &#8220;sold his soul&#8221; to his white master.</p>
<p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Left is so outraged by a proposal to build a statue of Clarence Thomas at the Georgia Capitol, that one unhinged lawmaker compared him to an “Uncle Tom” who “sold his soul to the slave masters.”</p>
<p>Watch for yourself: the hatred and radicalism of the far-Left on full display. <a href="https://t.co/dt1F7bYzoJ">pic.twitter.com/dt1F7bYzoJ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) <a href="https://twitter.com/KLoeffler/status/1625612094367211525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;We cannot avoid that conversation so I&#8217;m not going to avoid it either,&#8221; Jones said of the discussion surrounding the statue.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the black community we have an expression — and I don&#8217;t want to use this label too deeply here because I&#8217;m 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 — we have a term in the black community,&#8221; Jones began.</p>
<p>&#8220;That term that we use is called &#8216;Uncle Tom,'&#8221; he continued, adding, &#8220;And &#8216;Uncle Tom&#8217; is a — either fictional or a non-fictional character, I don&#8217;t really know the origin of &#8216;Uncle Tom&#8217; — but it talks about a person who, back during the days of slavery, sold his soul to the slave masters,&#8221; Jones continued.</p>
<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 — after first suggesting that white people would not necessarily understand his concerns — 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>
<p>&#8220;I don’t expect people of non-color to get the sensitivity that we feel about a person of color whose policies and practices and decisions and votes … we’ve rallied [to] fight against,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Justice Thomas’ 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’s taken have raised outrage in that community as well.&#8221;</p>
<p>The measure passed along party lines — 32-20 — and will be sent to the Georgia State House for consideration.</p>

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