From a reader:

Mr. Goldberg,
Ms. Greenburg’s column in the WSJ today about Clarence Thomas reminded me of another similar examination of the man. Angela Onwuachi-Willig wrote a piece for the Iowa Law Review titled “Just Another Brother on the SCT?: What Justice Clarence Thomas Teaches Us About the Influence of Racial Identity” which can be found here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=638281. It is 98 pages long but if you subtract out all of the footnotes it is really only about 30 pages.
I remember I shared this particular document with my African-American Studies professor after she said that some blacks deserved to be demonized (this was in response my observation of the treatment of Justice Thomas, Secretary Rice, and other prominent black conservatives). She agreed to read it if I read Cornell West’s “Race Matters”. Over my winter break I read Dr. West’s work (or manifesto) and I e-mailed my dear professor to let her know I had finished and asked how she was doing on my assignment to her. I never got a response. I like to think that my open minded professor’s e-mail account just blocked me as potential spam because certainly no self respecting academic would close their mind off to alternative viewpoints.
Thanks for all that you do,