Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is known as "Silent Clarence" because his voice is rarely heard, certainly almost never in the court itself and only infrequently in public. Recently he made some strange comments during a C-Span interview.
Thomas said Obama was elected because he fit the mold of what the 'cultural elites"
expect a black person to be. Thomas said he did expect that the country would have a black president during his lifetime. “I always knew is that it would have to be a black president who was approved by the elites and the media because anybody they didn’t agree with, they would take apart,” he contended when speaking at a panel at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh last month.
“You pick your person,” he added. “Any black person who says something that
is not the prescribed things that they expect from a black person will be
picked apart.”
“There is a price to pay,” Thomas said, noting that he’d assumed a black
president would be one the media agreed with.
Thomas said he met the president once in passing, when he visited the
Supreme Court, but hasn’t spoken with him at length.
“I don’t do a lot of Washington and I’m not into politics, so I mean there’s
not that many occasions,” he said. “I shook hands with him at the inauguration,
very polite, but I’ve had no in-depth conversation.”
No comments:
Post a Comment