Amazon Prime is not streaming a popular documentary about the only current black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, during Black History Month.
The omission is especially glaring as the move to drop &#8220;Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words&#8221; comes during Black History Month despite Amazon carving out an entire section celebrating &#8220;Black Voices&#8221; during February.
&#8220;Recently, Amazon Prime dropped Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, an acclaimed and popular PBS documentary on Justice Clarence Thomas, making it unavailable to stream during Black History Month,&#8221; Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/02/25/paoletta-amazon-prime-cancels-justice-clarence-thomas-documentary-during-black-history-month/">reported</a>. &#8220;Thomas is our nation’s only black justice currently serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, and one would think that between Amazon’s claim to &#8216;building an inclusive culture&#8217; and the fact that it’s Black History Month, Amazon would want to stream this inspiring documentary on its platform.&#8221;
Mark Paoletta, who served as a lawyer in the Bush 41 White House Counsel’s Office and helped to confirm Justice Thomas to the bench, wrote an opinion piece at Breitbart highlighting Amazon&#8217;s alleged anti-conservative bias.
The company &#8220;showed it has its limits when it comes to its dedication to diversity and inclusion&#8221; by booting the documentary, he argued.
&#8220;In fact, Amazon Prime created an entire Amplify Black Voices page on its site that &#8216;feature[s] a curated collection of titles to honor Black History Month across four weekly themes (Black Love, Black Joy, Black History Makers, and Black Girl Magic),'&#8221; highlighted Paoletta.
&#8220;Amazon has made a significant effort to celebrate black voices on its site during Black History Month, including films of Thurgood Marshall and even Anita Hill, but can’t find any space for a documentary on our only sitting black Supreme Court justice?&#8221; he pointedly questioned. &#8220;This makes no sense at all, other than Amazon made a decision to not show this film because Justice Thomas is a black justice who has conservative views.&#8221;
Paolette notes that Amazon &#8220;has been taking down long-running documentaries from its site with little or no warning, and apparently it is almost impossible to receive a response as to why a documentary was taken down.&#8221;
&#8220;[T[here may be some so-called liberal documentaries that have been taken down during this period,&#8221; he notes, however, &#8220;it is very strange that Amazon could not find space on its website to stream a documentary on our longest-serving black Supreme Court justice in American history that ran on PBS in a national broadcast (no small feat) and is a top-selling DVD in its documentary section, while less popular documentaries on Justice Marshall are still streaming.&#8221;
As <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/26/amazon-strips-clarence-thomas-documentary-from-streaming-service-during-black-history-month/">noted</a> by The Federalist, Amazon has &#8220;escalated its censorship of political dissidents.&#8221; Earlier this month, the outlet highlighted, Amazon deplatformed conservative Ryan Anderson&#8217;s book critical of gender theory, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-wide-email-condemns-student-for-calling-racist-candace-owens-a-black-trailblazer">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier this week that a Virginia high school student was publicly attacked for choosing conservative commentator, BLEXIT founder, and author Candace Owens has her “Black Trailblazer” for her Black History Month presentation.
&#8220;The Black Student Union assigned its members to present on &#8216;black trailblazers&#8217; that have contributed to the black community in honor of Black History Month. The presentations were sent out to the school in honor of black accomplishments. For her part, Julia Saville chose Candace Owens,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;On Wednesday, Feb. 17, Saville was scheduled to present on her chosen black trailblazer. When she awoke that morning, she received an email from a classmate condemning Saville for choosing Owens as a &#8216;black trailblazer.&#8217; The email was sent out to all staff and students at the school.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/citizens-deserve-better-justice-clarence-thomas-dissents-in-pa-election-case">‘Citizens Deserve Better’: Justice Clarence Thomas Dissents In PA Election Case</a>
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CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic was excoriated for a Monday <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/politics/clarence-thomas-trump-election-fraud/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">article</a> in which she claimed Justice Clarence Thomas sympathized with former President Donald Trump&#8217;s allegations of election fraud in one of his dissents earlier this week.
&#8220;Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday claimed election fraud is a threat to America, revealing in a forceful dissent some support for former President Donald Trump and Republicans who have refused to accept the result of the 2020 election,&#8221; Biskupic began in an article titled &#8220;Justice Clarence Thomas reveals some sympathy for Trump&#8217;s baseless fraud claims.&#8221;
In a tweet, Biskupic went even further to say Thomas &#8220;aligns&#8221; with &#8220;Trump&#8217;s baseless election fraud claims.&#8221;
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Justice Clarence Thomas aligns with Trump on baseless election fraud claims: <a href="https://t.co/hwjyWTJkOR">https://t.co/hwjyWTJkOR</a>
&mdash; Joan Biskupic (@JoanBiskupic) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoanBiskupic/status/1363979104350072832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;A longtime conservative, Thomas&#8217; legal views naturally aligned with the Trump administration,&#8221; she continued in the article. &#8220;But his dissent stands out for how much it subscribed to the Trump worldview of fraud, a notion debunked by election law experts and that has failed overwhelmingly in dozens of state and federal court challenges.&#8221;
Before going after his wife, Ginni Thomas, for her views, Biskupic went on to pull various quotes from Thomas&#8217; 11-page dissent, noting how often he used the word &#8220;fraud&#8221; and implying that Thomas and Trump are basically on the same page regarding the 2020 presidential election.
Ed Whelan, who is a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/bizarre-distortion-of-justice-thomass-election-dissent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tore into Biskupic&#8217;s article</a> in a piece for National Review titled &#8220;Bizarre Distortion of Justice Thomas’s Election Dissent.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m amazed to see that Thomas’s dissent somehow generated this wildly distorted article from CNN’s veteran Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;A trusting reader might imagine that Thomas’s dissent is replete with references to Dominion and Smartmatic and to various of Trump’s other allegations of fraud,&#8221; Whelan continued. &#8220;In fact, Thomas makes no mention of such allegations. Nor does the word &#8216;Trump&#8217; appear a single time in his opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;Moreover, Thomas states in his opening paragraph (and repeats twice later) that the Pennsylvania supreme court decision that the Court was asked to review ‘seems to have affected too few ballots to change the outcome of any federal election,’” added Whelan. &#8220;That’s not a statement you ever heard Donald Trump make.&#8221;
Ilya Shapiro, director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, also took CNN to task for publishing Biskupic&#8217;s article, calling it &#8220;false framing.&#8221;
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This is a false framing of Thomas’s dissent. <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> you should retract. <a href="https://t.co/d8AmZhVqlG">https://t.co/d8AmZhVqlG</a>
&mdash; Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ishapiro/status/1364696306006986755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Joan you should rewrite your piece. You know the case was about the independent state legislature doctrine and has nothing to do with Trumpian conspiracy theories.
&mdash; Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ishapiro/status/1364696629400326145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Thomas was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/citizens-deserve-better-justice-clarence-thomas-dissents-in-pa-election-case">joined in his dissent</a> by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch. As The Daily Wire reported:
<blockquote>Justice Clarence Thomas issued a vigorous dissent Monday in response to the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a challenge against the Pennsylvania state court’s ruling that permitted ballots to be counted even if they were received three days after Election Day.
“One wonders what the Court waits for,” Thomas wrote. “We failed to settle this dispute before the election, and thus provide clear rules. Now we again fail to provide clear rules for future elections. The decision to leave election law hidden beneath a shroud of doubt is baffling. By doing nothing, we invite further confusion and erosion of voter confidence. Our fellow citizens deserve better and expect more of us. I respectfully dissent.”
Thomas acknowledged that the case before the Court would not have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, but he also warned that the unwillingness of the Supreme Court to deal with the issues presented in the case now could hold potential problems in the future.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/citizens-deserve-better-justice-clarence-thomas-dissents-in-pa-election-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘Citizens Deserve Better’: Justice Clarence Thomas Dissents In PA Election Case</a>
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