Sat mute for years, finally asked a question during oral argument, then sat mute for more years, and asked one more question.

"Most qualified nominee for s sct" said daddy Bush.

Shows contempt Bush dynasty has for law in general and the legal profession in particular.

To Bushes, lawyers & judges are just part of the hired help, a few rungs above their gardeners, maids and cooks. Servants.

Thomas is right: he is a product of affirmative action. And Yale helped him get his job with that idiot Danforth, failed Episcopal priest & ex senator, when he was AG of MO. Danforth bore white man's burden and pushed Clarence into every position he had after that.

Clarence, you should get down on your hands and knees and thank Eli Yale and all the other alumni who were so generous as to give you a chance.

Because you are in fact second rate, or third rate, intellectually (though a first rate boot licker for the right wingers who sponsored you in Warshington).

And had you gone to Georgia State Law School rather than Yale, you'd probably be fixing someone's DUI at the courthouse in some small county seat in Georgia.

That's because the ass-hole missed the whole idea of constitutional government. He's so busy kissing Scalia's butt he wouln't know how much his law degree is worth.

CLARENCE IS FEELING O.J. GUILT, HE'S A CROOK AND HE FEELS THAT EMPTINESS THAT O.J. FEELS AND HE WANTS TO BE EXPOSED.HE WANTS TO TELL THE WHOLE WORLD THAT HE'S A BUSH BITCH LIKE CONDIMENTS AND RICE AND WHORE HEY GONZALEZ
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE STATE." -- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye: the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.­"
Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” -Sinclair Lewis

Judging from the commentary posted here it is safe to say that the posters are white.

THis anger is something that is particular to some black Americans especially the ones of the older generation who came up through Jim Crow and prior to the Civil Rights movement.

I've met some of them. I met an older black visual artist who I thought would be a good mentor, very smart and talented and so very angry. Not toxic anger (it didn't spill over into how he treated others) but held in anger that could really harm him and filtered his current experience.

I met another older very prominent successful modern artist (wealthy, published, widely exhibited,­critiqued, etc) married to a black woman from a prominent african american family. Same problem.In one exchange the woman shared how she had spent most of her 30's (a decade!)angry about race, her treatment by whites in America and the many doors closed in her face.They have all made it: successful careers, wealth and prominence.

My initial response as a young black female artist was why focus on the past? you've "done it". Enjoy. (how naive)

THere is a reason why black artists and others fled to Paris and other European countries during Jim Crow. The scars of this period are deep and have created a pathology in many african americans. The wounds continue to be passed on.

If the Holocasut can elicit so much sympathy why not the systemic oppression of an entire group over several hundred years here on American soil?

This is not in defense of Thomas who I completely dislike as SC Justice. But he falls into this group of "the oppressed" that becomes "the oppressor" .

It is impossible for whites to acknowledge the pathology created by this history. It is impossible to imagine how one would handle it if the tables were reversed.

15 cents?
reading his decisions he's got change coming.
pathetic loser.

That's about 10 cents more than Thomas himself is worth. And the nickel is plugged.

What a dope. He has never shown any intelligence or awareness of himself or of his petty, little life. I doubt that he had the intelligence to write even one word of this unfortunate (for him) biography.
Just seeing how unappreciative he is of what he has been given, makes me join him in despising affirmative action. Because had Yale not given him a break, simply because he is African-American, he’d be holding down some menial job someplace. But the Republicans know how to take advantage of class traitors. The Democrats would never have appointed such a dummy to such a high position.

Wow, if your law degree is worth 15 cents, just image what a MBA from Harvard is worth. I guess I will have to ask old man Bush that question since he bought one for his retarded child.

Everybody has got it wrong. HE is only worth about .15 cents and that's in today's figures.

This man complains about the liberals. And that the republicans are the saviors.

Remember this...the democrats campaigned and passed the laws to get the blacks in this country equal rights.

The democrats marched with the black people to show their support.

The democrats went to bat for the black people to find the ones who killed them during the sixties.

This man couldn't make it with the democrats, after all they are tried to do for the blacks in this country, so he joined the republicans. And the reason he joined the republicans to get political favors. One he would never have succeeded in doing, become a judge on the supreme if he had have been a "token black", which his record shows.

Really truly courageous black men are those like Marshall who this piece of shit Thomas couldn't even compare to that man's sweat.

Thomas: "My Yale Law Degree Is Worth '15 Cents'".
What makes him think, he, is worth much more?

Jeez, Thomas actually thought a degree from Yale would be worth something? He doesn't get the point of the University. At Yale, it's not about what you learn, but whom you know ... or whom you are related to.

He should just be happy he's employed in a job that is far more stable than any job available in a Communist Country. Being a Supreme Court Justice is better than Welfare ever was.

Yale should take the degree back.

thomas is the first of the Justices the Democrats should impeach when they have the numbers.
thomas is seriously deranged..­....think about it, he's still grousing about being rejected by Anita Hill.
If you and I harbored such abberant thoughts, we surly wouldn't want anybody to know.

Why is he so bitter? Sounds like he has more issues than National Geographic. His law degree is only worth the work he put into getting it.

He is a sick and angry man. Does anybody else feel that he is psychologically unfit to hold the position he has - a position that impacts the life of everybody in this country?? My God help us -- two sociopaths at the wheel of fate of America - Bush and Thomas! Is there any wonder the country is going down the toilet?