Clarence Thomas - 60 minutes (2-3)

[skinnydude911]

Thomas is coorect....the welfare society guranteed inequality . Because it delays effort and success and converts it into unproductive acceptance.

[Razersun]

Amazing man.

[Shafeone]

I read his book. Fascinating. This is a great man. (But he would laugh at that notion. Which makes him even more appealing). As his Grandfather said: "Old man 'can't' don't live here anymore. I buried him."

[cbaldwinjr]

He has become an ironic figure: a man who thinks for himself (I do believe that), but has become a mouthpiece for right-wing talking heads who think little of blacks. I think it's high time Thomas actually addresses not just black leadership, but the so called CONSERVATIVE leaders as well. They could stand to actually implement their so-called tenets in this country fairly and evenly. If they did, maybe things like affirmative action wouldn't be necessary in the FIRST PLACE. Food for thought.

[cbaldwinjr]

To continue my thought, you don't have to think myopically in the black community. But UNLIKE the white community, blacks are much more about community, not individuality. That's the reality. "It takes a village..." is there for a reason.

Thomas' insecurity stems from the mistreatment he received as a young black Southern. The IRONY is that he aligned himself with those state that they believe in self-reliance and hard work, but rarely reward those who LOOK like him when they do.

[cbaldwinjr]

You know who Clarence Thomas reminds me of? The character Sgt. Waters from "A Soldier's Story". He believes that he is doing something to help make blacks better...yet there seems to be a layer of self-hatred right on the surface. Thomas devalues his 'blackness' because the standard of success is white. He admits to being black but never seems particularly PROUD of it. A lack of pride in self leads to a hatred of self. And no, it has nothing to do with having a white wife. That's idiotic.

[GotGetGut]

True American Hero!

[DD826]

What blacks are not realizing is, the white liberal left is telling them to vote liberal and to be democrats!

This man thinks for himself.

[DD826]

Clarence Thomas is a good man.

[PowerIBismillah]

Fail...6:20 & beyond. Your people don't have the level playing field as whites no matter how much you want to sugar coat it. Want proof? EVERY single city in America has a poor section. And without fail who lives in this poor part of town? Blacks/Latino's. These communities have worse school systems as well so the residents are at a disadvantage from the start.These slots reserved for the poor are needed in many industries to even get a foot in the door.

[PowerIBismillah]

Fail...6:20 & beyond. Your people don't have the level playing field as whites no matter how much you want to sugar coat it. Want proof? EVERY single city in America has a poor section. And without fail who lives in this poor part of town? Blacks/Latino's. These communities have worse school systems as well so the residents are at a disadvantage from the start.These slots reserved for the poor are needed in many industries to even get a foot in the door.

[thirdshift47]

What a fuckin' sell out.

LOL!!

[angrywinds]

He has a weird laugh.

[freeski300]

wtf is the noise at 1:28?

[IronPriest82]

Lol, seems like cool guy.

[KeanOOO]

Thanks for posting. Fascinating stuff.

[mavinga]

it is really hard for any black man who truely reads ralph ellision, richard wright, and james baldwin and embraces the psychology dynamics of their thoughts, its really hard for any such black man, to remain a full fledge liberal democrat, who embraced identity politics and all its implications for deginerating the intellectutal, creative, and spiritual autonomy of the man as a private and public individual

[cpope3391]

EVERYTHING He has said on this Video is correct.....We as Blacks, Whites, Hispanics or whoever MUST and SHOULD take responsibility for OURSELVES!!....This is why we as so called minorities are so divided and weak.....We want the Goverment to do everything for us.....I salute this man.....

[Tr0llsNeverDie]

he is wrong about one thing. Only king i ever knew was Jerry Lee Lewis. King of rock and roll.

[watitdobebe]

Fresh brain weight, gestational age, body weight, sex, and race were collected from autopsy records of 782 over a 10-year period. For the premature brain weight is heavier in white males than in black males and in white females than in black females. These differences are similar to those found for adults in our previous studies, and they correspond to differences in gestational age and body weight in the subgroups.

[namelessronin]

fail

[jaguth8225]

2:39, most hilarious laugh ever. You can tell by his face that he's even surprised at his own joke, and he looks off-camera to make sure someone else is laughing. Priceless.

[arbelm1]

he is a genius

[videobrownsville]

Ive read his book, obamas book, ben carsons book, they have the same underlying theme ---NO DADDY!!!!!

[12wizard11]

What are you implying?

[highlandsh]

Clinton, too. What are we to make of that? We're told kids are better off with two parents of opposite sex but here we have highly accomplished individuals without. Grandparents played strong roles. Maybe quality over quantity. A there but not there Dad might be worse than none at all. At least there is no confusion.

[REBORUBA]

This is voiced over...

[chumbaracing]

Much respect to Justice Thomas!

[Zachw2007]

@chumbaracing All the people that hate Justice Thomas are the REAL Uncle Toms.

[kingofdash]

i can't believe no one commented on his laugh. that is the funniest laugh EVER!

[YIUsed2be]

chukmaty, that was for you...

[dkjaerwdww]

respect

[USA04July1776]

Remarquable man. RESPECT.

[YIUsed2be]

"We have lost the South for a generation" anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.After that episode,the democrats, now following Thurmonds lead,hyjacked the republican party. (I'm making this short)But name a republican at that time who is still alive,and I'll show a former Democrat who jumped ship after Johnson and J.F.K. backed the movement.I don't think Kennedy would be a republican, and I can't understand why a black man would keep comapany.

[chukmaty]

The quote of LBJ is probably a myth. The dems going ultra left probably lost them the south as the south was never socially or fiscally very liberal.

Also, Reagan used to be very liberal. He himself was very poor growing up and cared deeply about those in poverty. He knew that the salvation of the poor would never be in the hand of government. This thinking won the hearts of people like Clarence Thomas and other African American conservatives.

[YIUsed2be]

"The quote of LBJ is probably a myth." Why, because you want it to be? I think eyewitnesses who were there, and before you were born should have some credibiity, Jesus Christ!!No the salvation of the poor is not in the government, but government can create laws to protect you from racist behavior,laws that won't allow you to by or rent,go to school, go to libraries, even allow you to vote. You've probably never even considered these issues or had to deal with them so I can see why you're blind.

[chukmaty]

No, because it was Bill Moyers who was the guy who claimed it happened. Someone who I do not trust.

I fully supporter REPUBLICANS passing civil rights legislation with the help of a my home state Senator Hubert Humphrey. The Jim Crow south needed to be broken.

Human rights granted by the constitution > State rights. I am typically a federalist, not on this.

[YIUsed2be]

chukmaty, Wow, so you start out with a bias against Moyer, so whatever he says is to be disbelieved because you don't trust him. Actually I had the quote coming from someone else. Since you didn't respond tho the rest of statement:"The salvation of the poor is not in the government, but government can create laws to protect you from racist behavior,laws that won't allow you to by or rent,go to school, go to libraries, even allow you to vote" So you must agree which is not bad.

[chukmaty]

Discrimination and racism is terrible, I do not think that you or I disagree with that. But passing laws does not kill racism.

[mumbleora]

chukmaty,passing laws does not kill racism, but it can keep someone from lynching you, denying you loans, not selling or renting you a home, allowing you in schools,or denying you a job. What if there were no laws against speeding in your car or running red lights?Murder or robbery? Laws are meant to control behavior, wouldn't you agree?

[chukmaty]

That said, the Republicans passing civil right was a VERY GOOD THING.

[gozztopgo]

i love how he says "THEY weren't president yet... " haha brilliant.

[jaikwillis]

Funny he says here that after his graduation people "discounted" his Yale degree ... reality was his tuition was discounted because of affirmative action, and his action as a judge to destroy that affirmative action is self hating, and he would not have gotten where he got without it. Not because he's not smart enough, or good enough, or because of his race but because historical reality puts african americans at a disadvantage in general regarding family money and contacts to places like Yale.

[oa666]

lower tuition for financially disadvantaged students is not race based affirmative action. that isnt what he rejects.

[junkaa1234]

if you do away with affirmative action then you have to do away with legacy, and i'm not sure that it will happen. He says that his law degree was worth less because everyone felt that Yale gave it to him because he was black. If the argument is that by taking away Affirmative action in order to give minorities a sense of pride for achieving so much against astronomical odds what's the point. Why should they have to wear that badge, why can't you judge them by the work they produce?

[murphycline]

legacy isn't mandated by government. If Thomas has problems with universities that voluntarily have affirmative action programs then he's being inconsistent with regards to legacy. But government mandated affirmative action isn't the same as legacies.

[oa666]

because the overwhelming odds thing is BS. schools are about the most liberal, diversity seeking places in the country. if not the world.

show up to school and do your homework, stupid. it isnt that difficult.

[chukmaty]

True, he would support helping the disadvantaged regardless of that persons ethnicity.

[chukmaty]

Affirmative action came into effect after he was accepted into college. He did not benefit from AA, any financial discount he might have gotten was from his excellent grades not his race and even if it was his losses in earned wages were far greater than any benefit gained.

His degree was discounted because people now ignored that he got through school with spectacular achievment. All his virtue was ignored.

[qwertyman129]

He's discounting his own degree, not anybody else. He's a Yale graduate, and that's impressive for anybody in the world.

I don't think he was qualified for the SC, but I admire his story and his philosophical consistency, even if I oppose pretty much everything he stands for and get really annoyed by his habit of sleeping during oral arguments (extremely disrespectful).

His views tend to be pretty extreme (see Hamdi and the recent Voting Rights Act case).

[jaikwillis]

I agree qwertyman129 , I oppose almost every decision he's made, I think he's a lousy and unprofessional judge. But a good man privately, and I have no personal animosity towards him at all.

[harrisonjazzensemble]

You need to read his bio. Thomas was an A student everywhere he studied including Holy Cross. He would have excelled in SC too.

[efex2007]

He complains he was treated unfairly, "put in a box" without having the right to be treated as an individual, simply because of his race.

Well, each prisoner in Guantanamo is literally put in a cage, without having the right to be treated as an individual, and some may be there simply because they are Arabians.

I wonder how he can give his consent to it.

[TotallyHunt]

People at Gitmo get three squares a day, their food is blessed by an Iman, and they get treated better than prisoners in the US. Get a grip, my friend. I'm sure George Bush goes around the US and gathers up Arabs to take them to Gitmo. And I'm sure he was piloting the 747s that went into the twin towers. Enjoy your cool-aid.

[funkg]

im black and british born, yes my ancestors were slaves from the carribean. im a post graduate about to do an MSC (i work in government) afirmative action? what a crock of shit! just think if we had AA in england, i probably would of got a place at oxford or cambridge! (ivy league institutions) thank god we in the UK don't have that crap.

[snuffelsuf]

gettos and the fact that the prisons are FILLED with black men  in the usa are the DIRECT RESULT of slavery and the insueing treatment of blacks here in the usa:jim crow. . aa is a tangable and RITE acounting of WRONGS DONE and to make up for misdeads.... aa is a apologie and action to show we have considered our past behavior .....aand wanna make UP FOR IT.......DONT DENY US THIS!!!!!!!!!!.....IT is RITE and as god would have it

[basschief202]

his laugh at 2:38 is halirous

[moralimpact]

CT traveled a hard road with character and work. Rather than being maligned, he should be held up as an example, not just for blacks, but all people. The smear merchants want to keep him on the plantation and they are hopping mad because he wouldn't stay there.

[plainwain]

Clarence Thomas is a puppet just as any other puppet moves as the puppet master (n.w.o.)rehearses with him and even ol' pretending not to know the truth Steve Crotch (croft)'scuse me please?

[ngatcha10]

Clarence Thomas is a originalist but he looks for the most narrowest interpretation which swings conservative to decide his cases. Thomas will overturn precedent so that he can find a truly conservative interpretation of a phrase. lets be honest if there were 9 Clarence Thomas on the COurt 1,000s of Supreme Court Precedent would be overturned, even the "super-duper precedent" Like Brown and Roe

[daveatx]

2:34....I love Thomas' little joke and the great laugh...what a great personality. I'd love to have him over for a barbecue and some brews...he seems genuinely warm and funny.

[FiveCardArmy]

Cool intersting story, a different world he grew up in than my generation X. Wow, how things have changed.

[Magnulus76]

You can see how his philosophy meshes more with Malcom X/Black Panthers than MLK or Jesse Jackson- I believe that is the root of his conservativism/libertarianism. Personally, I think he is not the brightest star on the Supreeme Court and was indeed appointed because he was black.

[imkingdad]

TJ ur nothing more than a Black racist. go back to telling your successful classmates that they're acting white when they strive & achieve.

Chase those evil boogie men that hide under ur bed. Maybe someday you'll grow-up & mature & see how JJ, Big Al & the NCAAP has belittled some of the most successful Black Men & women of the 20th & 21st century Because they won't do the hate-filled Victimized Shuffle that they "the Black Leadership" deigns them to do.

[tjtube65]

Nevertheless, you still haven't been able to either answer the question I posed OR spell correctly - so how self RELIANT are you?

[right4us]

You were given the answer. What value do you suppose it was to him? (as if you really had any clue). His accomplisments were so devalued, and discredited it = 15cts. A grad from Yale law school not getting hired, why?

And only a (R), not a (D) would finally hire him. Why didn't one of the AA supporters hire him to show the value of the system? ...

[right4us]

cont. Why was he so viciously attacked and smeared by the AA crew? That's like eating your own. (But that seems to be a trait of many elitists/bigots who subscribe to the AA mentality)

[sugarlandp]

Hey racist, he said his law degree was worth 15 cents and he couldn't get a job because every law firm devalued it because of AA. You just want something for nothing. CT is a great role model and you are still a racist dumbass with no future. Now go be self-reliance.

[sugarlandp]

tj, you seem to have a problem understanding my humor so I'll practice AA and keep it simplur for you. CT would have done great things with his life even w/o AA. Quit fathering kids and leevin, obey laws, and compete on an even field. Attack JJ Jackson not CT.

[tjtube65]

How do you resolve this quandary? If you really root for CT, then you must believe that he never should have gotten the very opportunity that allowed him to get to the Supreme Court in the first place! Nevertheless, you actually believe that he would have had a chance WITHOUT the benefit of affirmative action? Riiiiiiight....

[tjtube65]

YOu know what the most despicable thing about CT is? He got into law school THROUGH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. And now he wants to ELIMINATE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. If he is such a sage, why can't he acknowledge the SUCCESS of a policy that got him into the position he holds today? And that raises a question for all of you who support him:

[novawolverine]

I'm black and I'm against affirmative action. I don't need people like you thinking I've gotten where I've gotten b/c of handouts.

[Revenant138]

WOOT! :D awesome dude!

[unknownunknowns]

I'm sure he does, but I think out of all the affirmative action recipients, he was smart one to realize that Blacks, AS A WHOLE, won't benefit in the long-run. That doesn't necessarily make him a hypocrite if he has GOOD reasons, right?

[wheelerX1X]

He is a hypocrite in the worst way. If he hates affrimitive action so much then give back his fucking degrees, quit the supreme court and go work at a local KFC. That is what his republikkan supporters really think of him anyway.

[unknownunknowns]

Well, I guess it's his and the Senate's mistake. Look, even if you call him a hypocrite, that doesn't mean you should support AA, which I don't. He, of course, is a flawed man but one thing I admire is he doesn't associate himself with the "black community." BTW, you forgot one more "k" in republikkan.

[bobbyclerici]

wheelerx1x - Thomas departs from the party line as a black who is supposed to follow the black political gospel without question.

He is the role model of strength and independence that is the future for African Americans who want to shrug off the chains of dependence.

[wheelerX1X]

And who put black people into chains of dependence? It was white kkkonservatives like yourself who declared blacks as slaves, 3/5 human beings, and created Jim Crow laws to keep blacks in their place. Thomas is so sick that he honors those same racist whites who fought tooth and nail to keep blacks from bettering themselves. And you have the motherfucking gall to call this twisted piece of garbage "strong" and "independent?" Thomas is a bigger slave than his ancestors ever were.

[bobbyclerici]

It's long past the time for African Americans to stop sniveling and get to work, following Thomas' example. Hispanics are the largest minority and they're moving quickly into the ranks of the middle class, proving that America works for those who work.

Your problem with Thomas is that he left the liberal plantation and shrugged off the shackes that keep people down.

[wheelerX1X]

Liberals never had a plantation. It was kkkonservatives like you who owned the plantations and did everything in their power to hold blacks down. And yes, mexicans are making rapid advancements - which is why white garbage like you wants them out of the country.

[bobbyclerici]

I work with a man from Pakistan who feels as I do. He knows this country works once people quit sniveling and crying.

You seem to want to remain a victim, so have at it. The rest of us who are succeeding just laugh at people like you.

[wheelerX1X]

You are succeeding? Horsehit. You sound like one of those middle-aged, bitter white men who has failed at everything he ever tried. You more than likely work FOR a man from Pakistan, which adds further humiliation to your racist ego.

[bobbyclerici]

Actually, he is our CEO, and you presuppose much in your view of people you don't know. When you cry wolf about racism, it belittles the real thing.

Anyway, Thomas is a great man. You'll never take that away.

[wheelerX1X]

So you do work for the Pakistani! Bitter white trash you are, obviously! I didn't presuppose anything about you. Losers like you live on this site, ranting and raving about blacks and their short-comings, while your own lives are littered with one fuck up after another. Con't.

[wheelerX1X]

After 400 years of absolute privledge over everyone, including your own white women, you have amounted to nothing but an anonymous cheerleader for a black man whom you would despise if he wasn't parroting your twisted ideology. You two do have some commonality, however: you both subscribe to a 500-year racist ideology that teaches both of you that you are something you aren't. Thomas succeded in spite of it (but doesn't know it); you have failed because of it (but can't admit it).

[hawk0122]

You desperately need a history lesson if you feel that Conservatives are the ones who have been putting blacks down and that the Democrat party has represented equality at all stops in the road. For example Woodrow Wilson was a white democrat president who was also a blatant racist. Hopefully you will actually open your eyes instead of trying to typecast me because I'm a republican.

[wheelerX1X]

You are the one who needs the history lesson. Before 1964-65, the Republican party was the liberal, progressive party. That all changed when Kennedy and LB Johnson (both democrats) broke from party tradition and pushed for the passage of several Civil Rights bills for blacks and women. Racist democratic conservative like yourself felt betrayed by this and quit the democratic party and joined the republican party, turning it into the republikkklan party, where you have been for the past 50 years.

[chukmaty]

You mean the Republicans like Huckabee who got a huge portion of the African American vote, or Bobby Jindal who got elected by whites.

Also it is a lie to say that it was racism that lost the democrats hold on the south, it was there moral collapse.

Also JFK would be a Republican today.

Were their racists in both parties, thankfully they are being purged.

[wheelerX1X]

Huckabee got some black votes. So what? That doesn't refute the history of conservatives I mentioned a few weeks ago.

I consider racism a moral issue, something that southern whites are infamous for - in direct violation of the teachings of jesus.

JFK would not be a republican today because like his brother Ted, JFK was not a bigot or war-monger.

[chukmaty]

JFK is not a bigot. But he would too conservative for todays democrats. And he started the Vietnam war which you seem to have forgotten.

[wheelerX1X]

I never said JFK was a bigot. Stop making shit up.

And JFK would not have ben conservative at all today. He would be a liberal - just like his pro-Civil Rights brother Ted and the rest of his family that you conservatives hate with a passion.

You lying bigot.

[chukmaty]

Oddly enough it was the GOP that overwhelmingly passed Civil Rights. Racism in the south is going away on a political level, I gave the examples of Jindal and Huckabee. Ignore the facts if you please.

[YIUsed2be]

What crystal ball do you possess to let you see into Kennedy's mind? Southern Democrats at the  time of Kennedy(also called Dixiecrats) were saturated with KNOWN racist. Some names you may recall are Strom Thurmond,Jesse Helms,George Wallace,Bull Connor and oh yes, old 666 himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan. When LBJ also a democrat, sided with King and the civil rights movement, Johnson predicted, ...

After signing the civil rights bill as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide,

[chukmaty]

Ronald Reagan was not a racist and he was not a Dixiecrat. I also think it is a stretch to say that Helm was either. There were a flurry of reasons why the south went Red, mainly the reason it still is red is because souther dems are not marxists and they are socially conservative.

Look at RWR's nomination acceptans speech, he spoke about the plight of minorities and how big government was making it worse and would continue to make it worse.

[wheelerX1X]

Chukmaty: "There were a flurry of reasons why the south went Red, mainly the reason it still is red is because souther dems are not marxist..."

Bullshit. The south turned red because it felt betrayed by Lyndon Johnson, a dem, who supported the Civil Rights Movement, giving blacks equality under the law. The conservatives said this explicitly.

You just can't deal with the fact that wherever there are conservatives, there is also bigotry and racism - then and now.

[YIUsed2be]

Let me retract that. As soon as I wrote it, I meant to take it back I can't point to anything that would suggest that. But Helms? He sure used race to keep himself in office i.e. Harvey Gant for starters.When blacks started demanding rights they labled them and their supporters "communists"Marxists" You can fool some other peoiple with that lame argument, but I've been around too long.

[cskirk]

Why was James Meredith hired as a staff worker for Senator Helms?

[wheelerX1X]

"Believing themselves betrayed by the Democratic Party, traditional white southerners joined the new middle-class and the Northern transplants in moving toward the Republican Party. Meanwhile, newly enfranchised Black voters began supporting Democratic candidates at the 80-90-percent levels, producing Democratic leaders such as Julian Bond and John Lewis of Georgia, and Barbara Jordan of Texas." Source: "Southern Politics: Then and Now." 1987

[hawk0122]

Once again you have done nothing but clearly showed that you have an agenda. As you'll see if you take your head out of your ass Democrats, seen as the civil rights party, supported slavery, opposed civil rights legislation, instituted the "Black Codes," and created the Jim Crow system. The Republican Party, in contrast, was founded in opposition to slavery, and supported post-Civil War and Civil Rights Movement-era legislation. Also the democrat party has had more than a fair share of racists.

[wheelerX1X]

It is obvious that you either have severe reading comprehension problems or you are a paid propagandist. The democratic party was made of up white southern slave-owning, states-rights democrats. That all changed after 1965 when those same white southern conservatives switched parties and became republicans in oppostion to democratic presidents Kennedy and Johnson's support of the Civil Rights Act.

[wheelerX1X]

The democratic has indeed had its fair share of racists. Strom Thrumond and Trent Lott were among them. Guess what party Lott belongs to today? Guess what party Thurmond was a member of when he died? Neither of these men ever renounced their bigoted views. Lott was even suspended from the Senate for expressing regret that Thurmond's racist fanatasy for america was never realized. So take your white trash version of history and stick it up your ass, the place where all of your opinions originate.

[hawk0122]

Also, why are you calling me a racist? I've said nothing racist your just trying to label all republicans as racist which is ironic, if you bother to stop and think about it.

[tjtube65]

And MAYBE, just MAYBE, you will learn to properly spell the word  MAYBE!

[sugarlandp]

Self-reliance talk? No Negro. Self-reliance action. Do your best in school and work hard like Justice Thomas and mabey, just mabey, you'll be self-reliance one day too. Oh yea and you are a racist dumbass.

[tjtube65]

In the end, with all his self-reliance talk, he has made his living by coolly negotiating on his knees with his head bobbing up and down between the knees of White Republicans. Punk.

[right4us]

Justice Thomas has made it to the highest court in our government, is a graduate of Yale, and has accomplished this through intelligence and perseverance, over much adversity. A true american, and stellar public servant. While some of us post on you tube - and many with a lack of decorum, as well.

[Uppitybitch]

question for Right4. why r u so hell-bent on posting this ridiculous rhetoric about this handkerchief head, foot shuffling, white-man-in-black-face, watermelon eating, uncle tom phenomenon? How much is the FOX Net, Bush White House & Elect Uncle Thomas Campaign Committee paying u 4 this radical PR stunt? Have u run out of current Right figures to praise, since most r under investigation 4 corruption or r about to be voted out of office, lol

[Revenant138]

honestly, omg, why dont you string a bunch of unrelated crap together and make fox news and the bush white house the reason he's in office.

Clarence Thomas rules. -liberals- screwed him over - the side allegedly trying to help blacks tried to keep him out because he didnt go along with whatever he's supposed to think to be a good black man. good thing he's got enough integrity to rise about it. now stfu plz kthx

[Uppitybitch]

thats not what i said, hes in office becuz of AFIRMATIVE ACTION, he admits that. I strung together those becuz theyre symbolic of radicalism, bias, special interest, etc.  Blacks dont have anything against Uncle Thomas' personal opinion. They disagree w/ his fight against huge strides in history to establish equality for blacks (most oppressed people in history). This is a man (black) who combats what has helped him. U do the math.

[unknownunknowns]

Look, I wish he wouldn't have used afirmative action as a way to elevate himself, but come on, doesn't he have good reasons to be against it? Don't you think that Blacks, as a whole, should stand on their two feet? How have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton improved the lives of Blacks?

[M0LL0Y]

U t8ke 1rst grade grammR

[Uppitybitch]

the point, stupid bitch, was to get as much information in the post as possible, not write in prefect grammer. i could send you a personal message (w/out character limitations) that would appear that Dr. Condi Rice wrote. Make an argument on the theme of my post not its appearance

[200092]

That is an ignorant comment. Try thinking for yourself and question what you have been told. What evidence do you have?

[tjtube65]

Clarence Thomas, whom in this interview has the nerve to invoke the name of the Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King, has completely turned his back on the movement that King led with integrity, genius, and guts. Thomas' nomination was the best way the Bush administration could wipe their ass on the legacy of another giant of the Civil Rights Movement, Thurgood Marshall.

[jsye]

Very different opinion of Clarence Thomas after this interview...and a better understanding of what he's about after hearing all the jokes about him and parodies and name calling, which I now think was uncalled for.

[right4us]

It is tragic how the left, even liberals, can be so vicious in smearing decent (in Justice Thomas' case honorable) people to try to continue to move our country left.