"I will not provide the rope for my own lynching" - Clarence Thomas 2nd Hearing Part 5 (1991)

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In 1975, when Thomas read Race and Economics by economist Thomas Sowell, he found an intellectual foundation for this philosophy. The book criticized social reforms by government and instead argued for individual action to overcome circumstances and adversity. He was also influenced by Ayn Rand, particularly The Fountainhead, and would later require his staffers to watch the 1949 film version. Thomas later said that novelist Richard Wright had been the most influential writer in his life; Wright's books Native Son and Black Boy "capture[d] a lot of the feelings that I had inside that you learn how to repress." Justice Thomas acknowledges having some "libertarian leanings."

In 1971 Thomas married college sweetheart Kathy Grace Ambush. They had one child, Jamal Adeen. In 1981 they separated and in 1984 divorced. Jamal is his only child. In 1987, Thomas married Virginia Lamp, a lobbyist, aide to Congressman Dick Armey, and subsequently an executive director at the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1997, they took in one of Thomas's great nephews.

Thomas was reconciled to the Catholic Church in the mid-1990s. He remains a practicing Catholic. In his 2007 autobiography, he criticized the Church for its failure to grapple with racism in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement, saying it was not as "adamant about ending racism then as it is about ending abortion now." Thomas is one of thirteen Catholic justices—out of 110 justices total—in the history of the Supreme Court, and one of six currently on the Court.

In 1994, Thomas performed the wedding ceremony for radio host Rush Limbaugh and his wife, Marta Fitzgerald.

From 1974 to 1977, Thomas was an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri under then State Attorney General John Danforth. When Danforth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 to 1979, Thomas left to become an attorney with Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to Washington, D.C. and returned to work for Danforth from 1979 to 1981 as a Legislative Assistant. The two men shared a common bond in that they had studied to be ordained (although in different denominations). Danforth was to be instrumental in championing Thomas for the Supreme Court.

In 1981, he joined the Reagan administration. From 1981 to 1982, he served as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1982 to 1990, he was Chairman of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). Journalist Evan Thomas characterized Thomas as "openly ambitious for higher office" during his tenure at the EEOC. As Chairman, he promoted a doctrine of self-reliance, and halted the usual EEOC approach of filing class-action discrimination lawsuits, instead pursuing acts of individual discrimination. He also asserted in 1984 that black leaders were "watching the destruction of our race" as they "bitch, bitch, bitch" about President Reagan instead of working with the Reagan administration to alleviate teenage pregnancy, unemployment and illiteracy.

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[jamo387]

Justice Thomas has been a great justice. Both logical and moral. Nice try libs, YOU FAILED...

[jmdomaniii]

@TheGadfly1 Are you God? Or were you present at every time Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas spent any time together? Do you have proof? Tapes?

If the answer is "no", then you have just added another slanderous lie against this man. Does that make you feel good? What is about this man that you liberals hate about this black man? What's the motive behind your malice, your determination to destroy him? Is it because he has the temerity to think for himself?

[exxodas]

8:14 is that Joe biden?

[ray72982]

its not hard to see his honesty

[CAM8689]

negro please read the history of blacks in this country before comparing these harassment allegations to that

[mspinkytee]

@RenShiWu To be hated has nothing to do with education. It is about character. Anita Hill was telling the truth. Clarence is a moron, and black folks do not like him. Anita Hill has stuck by her story. Please we know men, but when we call them on their BS, they act like, "Oh I don't know what you are talking about, I have been the perfect gentleman" Please!

[fh346]

@MasterSanders .....You're so right!!!! Some Black folks and white liberals as well DO NOT want an upright HONEST Man. They want the ones who promise them 40 acres and a mule. They don't want off of the plantation and HATE those who come up out of it.

[TheCaliCapitalist]

This just shows that he probably had so much guilt towards what he did. He just cut the conversation short when allegations on sexual harassment were brought up.

[CAM8689]

that's okay Uncle Rukus will

[MrJoeyBoombotz]

I love this. Everyone who loves Herman Cain should watch this.

[MasterSanders]

Just put Cain in Thomas's place and there's little difference.