Clarence Thomas: Frauenquoten sind entmenschlichend

Clarence Thomas, Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof der USA, erklärte in einem aktuellen Interview, seine Mitarbeiter nicht nach Quote, sondern nach Begabung einzustellen:

"I don't hire women law clerks," Thomas said. "I hire the best law clerks. And it turns out that 30 percent of them happen to be women."

Thomas, ein Schwarzer, führt als Analogie die Geschichte der Bürgerrechte für Afroamerikaner an:

He says he learned to judge and treat people as individuals from his grandfather, who raised him and his brother in the segregated South.

"My grandfather would say about whites, 'There's good'ns, there's bad'ns,'" Thomas said. "And about blacks, 'There's good'ns, there's bad'ns.'"

"The difference was good and bad, not black and white," he added. "And treating others and being treated ourselves as individuals was our goal."