And He Forgot What Diversity Means

Nana Dadzie Ghansah
3 min readNov 2, 2022

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.”
- from the Chinese poem, “Xinxin Ming”

The only way he could get into Holy Cross College, one of the Catholic “Ivies”, was because of a scholarship set up for minorities.

During his 1991 confirmation to the Supreme Court (SC), officials from Yale University said Clarence Thomas was admitted to their law school in 1971 through a program that was created to maintain 10% minority enrollment.

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Nana Dadzie Ghansah

An anesthesiologist, photographer, writer, and poet. He lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky.