Black History Month is over now, but don’t expect the liberal establishment to be any less aggressive about promoting its enthusiasm for all things Afro-American. Wait — did I say all things? I mean, all things Afro-American that can be exploited to advance the liberal agenda. Clarence Thomas is one of the most accomplished blacks in American history. But he won’t be getting his share of the reverence. Amazon even canceled him during Black History Month.

Breitbart reports:

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. …

Amazon Prime created an entire Amplify Black Voices page on its site that “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).” There are scores of films available to stream, including four films available on the Amazon Prime site to stream (two docudramas and two documentaries) on Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a liberal icon and our nation’s first black Supreme Court justice. There are even two films (one docudrama and one documentary) on Anita Hill, who came forward during Thomas’ confirmation hearing to claim that Thomas had sexually harassed her. (Hill’s story never added up and, and as reflected in a NY Times/CBS News poll after the Senate confirmation hearings, American men and women believed Thomas by a 2-1 margin.)

Nonetheless, Anita Hill’s is a black voice the liberal establishment wants amplified, because she tried to destroy a conservative with scurrilous allegations. Marshall’s is too, because he was a leftist. Clarence Thomas, a persuasive proponent of fundamental American principles, is not someone Jeff Bezos et al. want us to hear.

The Created Equal DVD is still available for purchase on Amazon, and it is in fact number 38 of all documentaries on that site. In contrast, the RBG documentary on liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not even in the top 100 but is still streaming on Amazon Prime.

This is despite RBG being hyped by the liberal establishment. They can tell us what to like. They can even tell us that we like it. But they can’t make us watch hagiographies of pernicious moonbats. They can, however, quietly disappear thought criminals like Clarence Thomas.

On the Amazon website, [Created Equal] has received a spectacular 4.9 star rating (out of 5 stars) from customer reviews, with 1,243 ratings.

No wonder audiences love the documentary. Thomas’s story is compelling. He grew up in poverty, embraced leftism, rejected it in favor individual liberty, and became — in the words of lefty legal writer Ian Millhiser — “the most important legal thinker of his generation and the most significant [Supreme Court] appointment of the last forty years.”

But major corporations are no longer primarily concerned with giving us what we want. They give us what we are supposed to want. We are not supposed to want diversity if it means diversity of opinion.

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