Clarence Thomas: The Justice Nobody Knows

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/27/60minutes/main3305443.shtml

(CBS) Most Americans know very little about the workings of the U.S. Supreme Court or its members, but mention Justice Clarence Thomas, and you are likely to start an argument.

He is the court's only African American, and it's most conservative member. He is arguably the most influential black man in the country, yet he is reviled by many in his own race for his opposition to government programs intended to help minorities.

Most people know very little about him, their opinions shaped by his bitter confirmation battle in which he was accused of sexually harassing a former employee named Anita Hill. Now, 16 years later, he has written a memoir called "My Grandfather's Son," which lays bare a remarkable life and the events that shaped it.

Supreme Court justices are private people who rarely give interviews and Justice Thomas doesn't think much of the press, but he gave correspondent Steve Kroft and 60 Minutes seven days of his life to talk about all of it.


"It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like," Thomas says. "I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them."

The justice agrees that there are some misconceptions about him, but says, "I think there are misconceptions about all of us."

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He's right.

To me he looked like a human being.





Now I know better.

were as bad as the republicans when they grilled Anita Hill. This perverted sack of turd was seen thru by the American public. But no matter how the people sent letters and called they were ignored like they were for impeachment. The confirmed this asshole anyway. But then, he's they type of person the republicans approve of.

This is rich:

"...But none of that had anything to do with what's in the Constitution. The point is simply this. The Constitution is what matters."

I don't know that Bush v Gore was in or supported by the Constitution either and yet he voted for that piece of ***t.

Clarence, STFU.