In this excerpt from the just-published “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta, the Supreme Court justice reflects on changes in his hometown, Savannah, Ga. The book is based on more than 30 hours of interviews Pack conducted with Thomas and his wife, Ginni, for the film of the same name; 95% of the book’s material is new, including this excerpt.
Michael Pack: You have talked a little today about how life in the black community has not been improved by many well-intentioned social programs. Do you think, in some sense, it is worse than when you grew up?
Clarence Thomas: It’s a disaster. When I grew up, you had family, you didn’t have drugs, you didn’t have gang-banging. You could walk down the street.
There was a change in our society. I think that these programs certainly had an impact. Just go back to Savannah and take a look around you. Our worst fears were realized. We didn’t want to be right; we wanted to be wrong. It wasn’t about winning an argument. No, we wanted to lose the argument. We did not want the damage to occur; that’s why we were involved. I don’t particularly like public life; I never wanted to be in public life. I’d like to go to football games. I’d like not to make decisions about other people’s lives, but what drags you into it is when you see these principles being undermined, which leads to such destruction. The policies destroy people, and, ultimately, I think, we’re going to destroy the very thing that allows us to have liberty and to have a free society.
MP: So the heirs to those movements, like Black Lives Matter, focus on other things: mass incarceration, police brutality. What do you think of the current movements for racial justice? more here
All intentional. I’m surprised he didn’t say it.
I oughta cut that N*****s Nuts off.
“Reverend” (Revren): Even the evil one knows scripture.
The honesty is refreshing!
Uncle Tom where have you been hidin? I just made some nice “white” rice, have a big bowl, please don’t choke on it.
Ha ha ha!
Can’t argue against what Justice Thomas said, so … what … call him names?
Can’t prove him wrong?
Pathetic fucking pussy.
Since 1964 some $4 Trillion has been “spent” on “social” programs for negroes.
That’s about $91,000 per negro.
Axe yo’seff – has each negro benefitted $91,000 worth?
Where’d the money go?
Jesse Jackson got his, as did Al Sharpton – and a few others – but mostly the money was syphoned off by Demonrat Operatives and their sycophants.
The simple fact is that the Demonrats have NEVER given a fuck about the plight of the negroes – just want to keep them on the plantation.
And fuck em – if the negroes haven’t figured it out after 60 years, they ain’t gonna listen to anybody – too dumb to help. Same as these poor dumb motherfuckers who think their kids are being educated in unionized public schools – all the evidence on Earth can’t move them – again, too dumb to help.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Black activists aren’t about helping blacks.
Belated happy birthday to Justice Thomas !