Clarence Thomas: Blacks Too Sensitive Today

It was reported today in the Huffington Post that Clarence Thomas said during a Tuesday appearance in Florida,"To my knowledge, I was the first black kid in Savannah, Georgia, to go to a white school. Rarely did the issue of race come up...Now, name a day it doesn’t come up." Thomas also said that "Americans are too sensitive about race."

Clarence Thomas agreed to a telephone interview with democraticdiscontents. 

dd: Justice Thomas, you said that when you were the only kid in Savannah in a white school the issue of race rarely came up. 

Thomas: Yeah, that's right. 

dd: In the 50s and early 60s lynchings of black men were considered good family entertainment. Whites would bring picnic baskets and the whole family would gather to see the nigger hung. What did you think about that?

Thomas: Lynching of black men? No, I never saw or heard about any of that. And if there ever were any lynchings the niggers probably deserved it. You would not believe what some black men thought about white women. Now, ask me about high-tech lynchings. I know all about them. 

dd: What did you think about "white's only" and "colored only" bath rooms?

Thomas: Well, look, some of them country niggers are about as nasty as you can get. Hell, they didn't even know about toilet paper until about, maybe, 1970.  That's one of the few liberal programs that probably did some good. 

dd: But what would have happened if you tried to use a white's only bathroom?

Thomas: I would'a been shot before I unzipped my pants. 

dd: You just weren't that sensitive about it back then? 

Thomas: Hell, no. Nowadays, a white says turn the music down, and it starts a race war. 

dd: So you were never called racial slurs?

Thomas: I wouldn't say that, it's just I wasn't all that sensitive about it. 

dd: What has caused this hyper-sensitivity about race today among blacks and liberal whites? 

Thomas: It's the race-baiting industry. There is a lot of money being made promoting race sensitivity. 

dd: You once said that your law degree from Yale was worth 15 cents.

Thomas: That's because the white-shoe law firms thought I had got into Yale because of affirmative action. 

dd: Are you a member of the Supreme Court because of affirmative action? 

Thomas: That is a racist, derogatory, insulting and highly insensitive remark. Interview ended.