[laplata]

Because Progressives are very totalitarian and Clarence Thomas and other Blacks are not supposed to walk away from the Plantation and be free.

[glennaro]

Because of his deeply held conservative principles, the Left does not consider Clarence Thomas to be an "authentic black" ... like, say, obama.

He does not fit their caricature of how a negro should think and act, you see. (Nah -- they're not racist!)