Clarence Thomas Sounds The Alarm -- Digby

[Ocelot II]

2. If it weren't for progressives he wouldn't have the job he has now.

Sure, GOPer Bush I appointed him, but liberals and progressives made it possible for him to get the education and the experience he needed to be even considered for the position. Without the civil rights movement so strenuously opposed by conservatives, Thomas would probably be still living on a farm in Pin Point, GA. It's strange that he left the seminary because he thought it was too racist, and became involved in the civil rights movement of the '60s, but now he's pulling up the ladder behind him. I guess he must have decided at some point that he'd be better off working for The Man and gaining the perks of being a conservative justice who likes fancy vacations.