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This pancocojams post presents an excerpt of the Wikipedia article about Afriican American cartoonist Aaron McCruder's fictional character "Uncle Ruckus".
This post also presents a few online examples of Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas being called Uncle Ruckus. These examples are gleaned from several online articles and tweets.
The content of this post is presented for historical and socio-cultural purposes.
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Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/12/raise-ruckus-tonight-examples-comments.html for a pancocojams post about "Raise A Ruckus Tonight".
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INFORMATION ABOUT UNCLE RUCKUS
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ruckus
"Uncle Ruckus (born July 4, 1939) (also known as
Reverend Father Uncle Ruckus, No Relation) is a fictional character on the
American animated sitcom The Boondocks. Voiced by Gary Anthony Williams, he
first appeared on television in the show's pilot, "The Garden Party",
on November 6, 2005. Created and designed by cartoonist Aaron McGruder, Ruckus
enjoyed great success after appearing in the comic strip of the same name.[1]
Ruckus had a turbulent childhood as he was raised by the abusive Mister Ruckus. His mother had a self identity crisis, often praising white people. After being kicked out of his home as a teenager, he traveled to Woodcrest, where he works odd jobs. Ruckus embodies many old American working-class stereotypes: he is crude, short-tempered, obese, rule-neglecting, clumsy, and largely ignorant. He is also internally racist, repeatedly proclaiming his love for the white race and disdain of the black race, and he even identifies as Caucasian, saying he suffers from "reverse vitiligo".
Despite this, Ruckus maintains a close relationship with
Robert Freeman and yearns for social acceptance. Despite the blue-collar
routine of his life, he has had a number of remarkable experiences, including
work as a recording artist.".
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From https://boondocks.fandom.com/wiki/Uncle_Ruckus
Uncle Ruckus is the central antagonist of the animated TV
series The Boondocks. He is voiced by Gary Anthony Williams.
His role in the series varies depending on the storyline of
the episode he's featured in. He can either be one of the main antagonists,
major anti-hero, or neutral. He is a black man who firmly doesn't like black
people -- the world's biggest "Uncle Tom". An overweight, horrid,
detestable homely man with one oversized glass-eye, he enjoys disassociating
himself from other African Americans as much as possible, and is outspoken in
his support of what Huey calls the "white supremacist power
structure."
He holds extremely racist views towards all black people, and everyone else who isn't white. Uncle Ruckus's name is a reference to Uncle Remus or Uncle Tom. He is the darkest-skinned character on the show. His name is also a reference to Amos Rucker, an African-American United Confederate Veterans member, who allegedly wanted to stay a slave after the United States Civil War. A "ruckus" is also the act of making a noisy disturbance, something which Uncle Ruckus is almost always sure to do. His #1 song he wrote is called "Don't Trust Them New N***as Over There".
His hatred of black people comes from his black adopted (in reality biological) hopelessly deluded and damaged mother who taught him white history and told Ruckus a skewed, bigoted and lopsided history of achievements of black people such as claiming that George Washington Carver was the person responsible for the most peanut allergy deaths. This hatred was further reinforced by the fact that he was horribly abused by his father as a child.
Full name
Uncle Ruckus
Nickname
Uncle Ruckus, No Relation (he says this to distance himself
from his estranged abusive father)
Reverend Father Uncle Ruckus, No Relation (whenever he
introduces himself as a priest)”…
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YouTube has a number of videos of Uncle Ruckus.
WARNING: These videos contain profanity and other content that isn't suitable for children.
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Here's the meaning of the word "ruckus" from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruckus
"1. : a noisy fight or disturbance : ROW, COMMOTION
[...]
He went outside to see what all the ruckus was about.
2: a state or situation in which many people are angry or upset : FUSS, UPROAR
… the county's GOP is embroiled in a lively legal ruckus
over an attempt to seize control of the party."...
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SELECTED ONLINE EXAMPLES OF SUPREME COURT CLARENCE THOMAS BEING CALLED "UNCLE RUCKUS"
These examples are given in chronological order based on their publishing date. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
EXAMPLE #1
From https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/local-commentary/on-solving-the-puzzle-of-clarence-thomas/article_4d25e41b-550c-5027-94be-4a5bc86d5035.html On solving the puzzle of Clarence Thomas by Daryl Gale Jun 28, 2013
"It’s been an up and down week for the progressives and
minorities who have been closely watching the movements of the Supreme Court.
There was jubilation upon news of the ruling that gay marriage is probably about to become settled law, with the Defense of Marriage Act torn to shreds; and hair-pulling frustration at the word that key portions of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark legislation that represents the greatest victory of the civil rights era, were scuttled because — and this may be news to some of you — America has apparently gotten over its criminally racist tendencies and every individual’s right to vote is already protected.
We’ll get back to that bogus assertion in a minute, but for now, I’d like to talk about the one member of the Supreme Court whose opinions and behavior continued to baffle me until this week — our old friend Clarence Thomas.
The court’s opinion gutting the VRA was signed by the conservative justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Samuel Alito, and of course, Thomas.
In an interesting aside, a white Minnesota state legislator named Ryan Winkler tweeted when the decision came down that there were “four accomplices to race discrimination and one Uncle Thomas.” Winkler was later forced to apologize to Thomas and remove the offending tweet. I, for one, wasn’t offended.
I’m just going to say it — Winkler was right. And when a white man has the nerve to call you out for acting like an Uncle Tom, you probably are one.
In fact, since I believe I’ve finally got Thomas figured out, I’ll go Winkler one better.
He’s not Uncle Thomas — he’s Uncle Ruckus.
If you’re a fan of Aaron’s McGruder’s biting satire comic and cartoon The Boondocks, you are right now laughing your head off and nodding in agreement. If you’re not a fan, let me give you a little insight into the mind and method of Uncle Ruckus.
Uncle Ruckus is a Boondocks character who’s an African American who hates, and I mean genuinely hates, Black people. His creative put downs for Blacks and his seemingly endless ability to invent new permutations of the n-word are hilarious in their absurdity.
Uncle Ruckus’ deep loathing for those who share his skin color is funny because, well, he’s Black, and it’s just a cartoon. Our friend Thomas, who shares both skin color and attitude with Ruckus, is not so funny, given the fact that as a Supreme Court justice, he has the ability to shape both law and public policy for generations to come.
[…]
And this is the guy George H.W. Bush put on the Supreme
Court to replace the late civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, who must be
spinning in his grave right about now. It was clearly Bush the Elder’s racist
little joke on us all.
And before you let people try to make the argument that
Blacks (and anyone with a conscience) hate Thomas because he’s a Republican,
keep in mind that Black folks didn’t hold the same animosity toward Colin
Powell, Condoleezza Rice, J.C. Watts, Mia Love, or a dozen other Black
Republicans you can name. No sir, Clarence “Uncle Ruckus” Thomas holds his own
special place in Black consciousness that few others could claim.”…
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EXAMPLE #2
From https://twitter.com/ImoImeh/status/349178386880540673
I AM IMO
@imoimeh
Self-Hating Negro, Uncle Ruckus, Clarence Thomas.
Smh. I refused to be stressed this Monday.
#scotus
10:53 AM · Jun 24, 2013·
EXAMPLE #3
From
“Clarence Thomas embraces slavery in opposition to marriage
equality and I'm immediately reminded of Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks.
Although in Thomas's defense.... Uncle Ruckus would have never taken the job of
Supreme Court Justice in the first place.
[A drawing of Uncle Ruckus is inserted next to a photograph of Clarence Thomas. That visual has this caption:
“Ruckus (L), Thomas (R). Wait, Thomas (L), Ruckus (R). Wait....”Under that caption is this quote from Clarence Thomas]
“The corollary of that principle is that human dignity cannot be taken away by the government.Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied government benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits. The government cannot bestow dignity and it cannot take it away.
Also, Clarence Thomas.... you don't understand the definition. Let me help you out.
DIGNITY: the state of quality of being worthy of honor or respect.
Uncle Ruckus Thomas, do you remember the 3/5 compromise? You
know, the law that states that slaves are LESS THAN A WHOLE HUMAN?
Slaves, prisoners in interment camps, those denied benefits my hold
themselves with dignity but to given that by the state as a right is a
completely different issue. You leaped from punchline to becoming completely
irrelevant (for now anyway).”….
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The bold font is the way this article was written. The word “my” in the second
to the last sentence quoted is a typo for the word “may”.
EXAMPLE #4
From https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2020-02-28/created-equal-clarence-thomas-in-his-own-words/ "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words" 2020, NR, 116 min. Directed by Michael Pack.
Reviewed by Mike Clark-Madison, Feb, 28, 2020
"Let’s spot Clarence Thomas this at the outset: He is not
obligated to justify to anyone, and certainly not to white people, why he is
Not That Black Man – or, as he puts it “in his own words” in this strained
video portrait, “the wrong kind of black man” to be allowed to attain power.
This matters here because Created Equal is a monologue and an apologia for the Supreme Court justice’s controversial career, yet also firmly centered on his black life. So the documentary raises the question of how a poor black boy from the Sea Islands in Georgia ends up a political and legal conservative, but then leaves it laying on the table, unanswered in a cloud of Thomas’ grouchy diffidence and reticence.
This is the sort of film made for block-bookings of MAGA
church youth groups – Thomas’ wife Ginni floats in and out to drop evangelical
code words about the angels and demons warring over his fate. It doesn’t say
much about his judicial or political philosophy beyond brief and opaque
gestures at “originalism” and “natural law” and a clip of Gary Cooper in The
Fountainhead. Thomas starts to articulate a thesis of libertarianism, rather
than liberalism, being the appropriate intellectual home of black men scarred
by racism, but doesn’t really finish the thought; he speaks of a
road-to-Damascus moment and concluding that certain principles are worth dying
for, but the movie never lays out with much clarity what those are. Perhaps
it’s assumed the audience will view Thomas as a virtuous warrior for God and
country and Trumpish stuff, but he also comes off as a friendless misfit and
kind of a hotep, the Uncle Ruckus of the Supreme Court."...
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There are several meanings for the African American Vernacular English (AAVE) word "hotep". Here's an explanation that I believe pertains to the word "hotep" as it is used in the excerpt given as Example #4:
from https://theoutline.com/post/1412/what-hotep-means ..."online, where the word has proliferated in recent years, hotep signifies a faux-wokeness associated with misogynoir, homophobia, toxic masculinity, and misguided understandings of history and science. “Hotep Twitter is the home of the #StayWoke crowd of men who claim to represent the roots of Africa or whatever…but deep down they display misogynist and homophobic traits,” warned Bossip in a 2015 post."...
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EXAMPLE #5
From https://marleyk.medium.com/this-man-makes-me-so-ashamed-to-be-black-and-from-south-carolina-80b79f59a8bb
Marley K.
Mar 20, 2021
Earlier this month, South Carolina senator Tim Scott made the claim that woke supremacy was as bad as White supremacy. Yes, you read that right! Truth be told, given the deliriously frantic level of media coverage devo…
Tim Scott, Woke Culture, White Supremacy And Dishonest Nonsense!
Elwood Watson, Ph.D
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this man makes me so ashamed to be Black and from South Carolina. Him and Uncle
Ruckus Clarence Thomas. How do we keep ending up with so many of these stupid
Black self-hating Black people. He's seems to be the kind of Black man that'll
allow Whites in his midst to say inappropriate misappropriated slang.
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EXAMPLE #6
From https://www.reddit.com/r/seculartalk/comments/vjsfrr/clarence_thomas_is_simply_a_disgrace_imagine/ Posted by u/WilliamMcAdoo, June 24, 2022
"Clarence Thomas is simply a disgrace. Imagine replacing
Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights icon, A New Dealer with this overcompensating
Uncle Ruckus who helped implicitly end Miranda this week ."
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EXAMPLE #7
From https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1540903699664486400
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EXAMPLE #8
From https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/posts/10161899369668812
ABC News
June 29 [2022]
NEW: Ketanji Brown Jackson will take both her oaths tomorrow
at noon — Chief Justice John Roberts administering the Constitutional Oath and
Justice Breyer delivering the Judicial Oath.
Brian Hopkins
June 29 [2022]
We need to get rid of Clarence Thomas aka Uncle Ruckus!"
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