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I watched 60 minutes the other night and was so moved by Clarence Thomas. CBS was fair. I’m still stunned about that.

But, I digress. I couldn’t help thinking of this election when he stated his principals in making decisions.

“After this whole horrible experience, you won,” Kroft says.

“Won what?” Thomas asks. “What was the game? There was no game, Steve. This wasn’t about winning anything, this wasn’t a football game. This was about our country. This was about a process. This was about our courts. This was about our Constitution. Who won?”

“Well, I mean, you know it’s about a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States,” Kroft says.

“So what?” Thomas asks.

“They don’t come open, they come open that…,” Kroft says.

“That’s not a holy grail for me Steve,” Thomas says.

Was it worth it in the end?

“I think it was always worth it to stand on principle. No matter what the ultimate goal is. Wrong is wrong even if it was over a penny,” Thomas says.

“This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace,” he said during the hearing. “It is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.”

“Why did you use that language? Why a high tech lynching?” Kroft asks.

“If someone just wantonly tries to destroy you, if somebody comes in and drags you out of your house and beats the hell out of you. What is it?” the justice replies.

“What do you want people to think about these allegations? What is important…,” Kroft asks.

“I think most well-meaning people understand it for what it was. It was a weapon to destroy me, clear and simple,” Thomas says.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904827/posts

>I watched 60 minutes the other night and was so moved by Clarence Thomas. CBS was fair. I’m still stunned about that.<

Thanks for your post, AuntB.

I remember watching the wrenching Clarence Thomas hearings. We were visiting relatives in Green Valley, AZ at the time, and we were all appalled at the terrible display of leftist attack on this fine gentleman. I will certainly go out and buy Thomas’s book, “My Grandfather’s Son”. I’ve heard it is a winner.