Clarence Thomas

Thank you, Mr. Thomas I am glad you took the time to share with us, my original opinion of you has been validated, a man of principles. I am a 56 year old African American Male who grew up under similar circumstances in the sixties. Thank you for sharing. Shaka Jones Lake Jackson, TX.

Clarence Thomas is neo conservative right wing hack who has no reason sitting on the highest court in the land. His nomination was a revenge nomination to challenge the left to try to derail the nomination of a person of colour and he almost did himself in. That fight was the single biggest cause for the polarisation in America today. Forget Red vs. Blue state, this was a cynical case of exploitation. His behaviour and arrogance around the Anita Hill affair was despicable. He has made a mockery of justice always following a political line with every decision when the highest court in the land is a place where justice is supposed to be blind to politics. His appointment was justifiably abhorred by people of reason and time has born out that he will go down as the least creative and thoughtful member of that august body in years.

...and I'm a 50 year old mixed race American living abroad for 10-years in large part due to his role in the (s)election of a like-minded Republican through the court's despicable process which handed W an election without counting votes on party lines. Yeah, we should all feel very proud of Mr. Thomas for that! Can you imagine if the Presidency were a lifetime appointment for an under-60 W six years ago where we'd be?

What a revisonist! This interview did not help him.

I am amazed that Thomas did an interview for anyone. Thomas surfaced after he thought America had forgotten the case with Anita Hill. Thomas is invisible in the Black community. We think he is a joke. An interview about what? 60 minutes ran out of people to interview.. Thomas represent nothing; especially in the Black community. Isn't it time for him to retire?

His answers to Kroft's questions - which were mostly fairly milquetoast stuff - were fairly weak and really shed little light on Thomas's ideology. And yes, Thomas does have one. The hardest part to watch was how he enjoys driving his gargantuan motorhome through middle America, away from the "elites" and being around the regular folks, presumably his kind of people. Gosh, one would get the impression that he's almost a visitor to the Beltway area and probably has no friends or colleagues there. That came off as about as authentic as Dubya clearing brush or GHWB taking his groceries through the checkout lane at the grocery store. Not terribly credible! The irony is that Thomas more often than not pleases many of the direct descendants of the very people who would've sought his demise had he, as he described it, "looked a white woman in the eye" - let alone marry one! And, connected to that, it's rather shoddy journalism to portray his opponents on racial issues as being confined to chanting demonstrators and Al Sharpton. Thomas has many opponents regarding his views on affirmative action (and other race issues), including many thoughtful, calm, constitutional scholars, black and white, who've never held a megaphone in their lives.

Away from politics, Clarence Thomas struck me as a highly principled man. A tour through his humble begining and later his exalted office showed that he would do unto others the same good that he received within the context of his current environment. As an African, I learnt a lot from his honest responses and determination to stick to the truth the way he perceived it. It is natural for anyone in his position to face strong opposition from the public. But in life, you must learn to do your best and leave the rest to posterity. Wish him many glorious years ahead.

Amazing the amount of ideological radicalism present here, but thats what you get when you ask the average blogger for his opinion. I may not agree with Mr. Thomas' viewpoints on this issue or that, but I do realize that he is a man with principals and values, and he is applying those principals and values to both his life AND work. Too many of us say one thing and do another. Weather it be the civil rights activist who fights for equality and then demands special treatment, or the public figure claiming moral and principled leadership, and then has one affair after another, or a closet full of illegitimate children... I fo

I find it funny that when a conservative black, whether it is Condalezza Rice, Colin Powell, or Clarence Thomas, is appointed to a top office in the country, they somehow become not part of the "Black community" and instead become a target to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and other of like mind, yet for Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, it's all in his past and doesn't count because he is a Democrat liberal...

A Professional Black woman charged you with harassment with a great deal of credibility. That plus your extreme right wing ideology is why you had a tough time at conformation. It was nothing to do with race. You area Supreme Court Justice for life, quit whining like a little vindictive spoiled brat!