Daily Signal:
Justice Clarence Thomas has served 27 terms on the U.S. Supreme Court, and agreed to become the 341st leader interviewed for my Daily Caller News Foundation series.
Now at age 69, he is looking back on his life with gratitude and discernment with valuable lessons for others.
People often want to define you by the bad things that happen in your life, he says, but there has been so much good amidst the challenges he told me, his wife, in this exclusive interview.
From a life that launched from economic deprivation, illiteracy, family dysfunction, and even time as a radical leftist, his accomplishments now reach to the U.S. Supreme Court—where he faces constant vilification and defamation. He says he learned the value of humility, patience, and persistence, but the bedrock of his rules for living came from simple aphorisms from his illiterate grandfather.
At a young age, he learned how to build bridges and find something in common with other people, be it sports, a hobby, religion or experiences, rather than focusing on differences and divisions. “Everyone has inherent value and is worth listening to,” he believes.
Looking back, he credits divine providence for path of his life. From the burning of a house, to being raised by his grandparents, to the nuns who taught in Savannah’s inner city, to attending the seminary and to getting his first job with Missouri Attorney General Jack Danforth, who was interviewing at Yale. Nothing could have foreseen his sitting on the Supreme Court today.
Faith, he says, gives him “the strength to do what I have to do every day, to assert the independence, to be willing to take the beatings, the criticism, the unfairness.” When he attends daily mass, he says, it helps him do his “job, a secular job, in the right way and for the right reasons.” It reminds him that his work has nothing to do with what is said about him, but is rather about doing what he took an oath to do.
more here– video.
I didn’t realize that was his wife. I read her stuff at Daily Caller sometimes.
My boss knows this couple very well – and has known them for some time. She thinks very, very highly of them both and my boss is one of the finest, most moral people I have known in my 60+ years.
If ever there was a piece of evidence that ought to prove to anybody but a foaming-at-the-mouth leftist lunatic that Anita Hill was absolutely full of shit, it’s Ginni Thomas
All evidence pointed to Clarence Thomas being the most gentlemanly person you could think of until Anita Hill showed up from nowhere and proceeded to describe the most deranged behaviour imaginable
So the conclusion we’re supposed to draw is that Clarence Thomas was just driven out of his mind with lust for a high-strung, scrawny black liberal woman, as evidenced by the fact that he’s been MARRIED for 30 years to a mellow chubby, pale skinned Red Irish conservative.
What could possibly be more ridiculous? We knew it all along but Ginni Thomas is the tie-breaker for that squishy MOR American
the whole Anita Hill thing was a total crock of shit it’s Ginni Thomas
I knew in my youth, when I was checking out that Anita Hill mess, that the left was insane. That whole thing was an eye opener. It was just bizarre.
That Anita Hill mess, a total national disgrace, was also the open mic for a grandstanding immoral Chm. Joe Biden.
That the Republicans totally caved on first Bork and then this Judicial Committee fiasco was setting the tone for decades of garbage leading to the Trump Reversal.
I got to meet Ginni a few years ago. Wish her hubby had been with her that night. She’s quite a lady.
I could listen to these two all day. The final few moments were charming and witty. His advice on how to handle slanderous people is both exalting and humble. May Justice Thomas continue many more years in fine health and mind.
How blessed we have been over the last 30 years to have the great man of God sitting on our highest court.
I didn’t realize he was such a man of faith. It is no wonder he is such a great man.