As you might expect, I read a lot of opinion columns. Rarely have I ever seen a U.S. newspaper publish a race-based rant like the one by Lafe Tolliver in the Toledo Blade on Saturday.

Tolliver is incensed that the Supreme Court is set to review the Constitutionality of government-mandated race-based admissions guidelines (based on programs in Seattle and Louisville), which Tolliver sees as a direct assault on Brown v. Board:

So now we get Brown decided and here it is 50 years later and whites are still whining: "We want it all. We do not want to share with black folks. Let's go back to racial polarization." That would be the logical outcome of a cowardly Supreme Court decision if they were to eviscerate Brown and its progeny.

Don't worry. Justice Clarence Thomas will not save the court and pull this chestnut out of the fire. Justice Thomas, who was a direct benefactor of affirmative action, is so happy to be around the white justices that he will gladly carry their water and wood. He will not fight for minority rights. He is not a lion like Thurgood Marshall. I believe that he considers himself to be an honorary white person. In my opinion, he has a personal disdain for people of color. (See Frantz Fanon's work, "Black Skin ...White Mask.")

The ripple effect of overturning Brown would be tantamount to an economic and political tsumani (sic) in American society. Sympathetic laws, be they state or local, would be cannon fodder for a myriad of challenges by whites who never warmed up to the idea of someone not looking like them getting what they have taken as their inherited DNA white-skin privileges.

A reversal of Brown would broadcast the following thesis: "White people have had unchecked access to money and power and privileges for hundreds of years and we want it to stay that way. Blacks have had a smidgen of the same for about 50 years and that is too long. We want to go back and have it all... again."

What Tolliver obviously doesn't understand is that this type of screed only breeds resentment, division, and ultimately hurts the cause of racial justice and equality in America.