George Takei calls Clarence Thomas a "Clown in Blackface"

[hunter]

69. I hate guns and automobiles too, but you know that...

...even though I have some natural and practiced talents with both.

I've never been in a situation where me holding a gun would improve the outcome. And I've been in some very rough situations.

Guns are tools that escalate the ugly. Always better to use your brain to talk people down, or at the very least, if you are able to run away, be wearing shoes you can run in.

From middle school until I quit high school the bullies called me "queerbait" and frequently beat me bloody.

I grew up in a town that was affluent and white, and kept that way by racists. The police considered harassment of the "others," the non-white people, the LGBT people, to be a sport. Real estate agents and lenders were cold to the "others," even after that sort of discrimination was made illegal.

My hometown is still a little creepy. I wonder about those who stayed... none of my family did, nor my wife's family.

My parents are artists and really couldn't be too picky about where they lived, they followed the paying jobs. These days they are retired and live in a wild place, drinking and bathing in the water that falls on their roof, gardening, and buying much of their food from local farmers.

I haven't lived in "white, straight, "good" Christian community my adult life and I won't ever go back.

If you think Mr. Takei is racist, just say so.