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While support for both Thomas and Hill was divided, on October 15, 1991, Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court, becoming the second African American in history to fill a seat on the highest court in the land.
(Archived document, may contain errors) BLACK AMERICANS SHOULD LOOK TO CONSERVATIVE POLICIES by Clarence Thomas
His time working for Monsanto and other polluting industries helped make him the fierce conservative he is today.
… You understand, I have this horrible condition. I have had it for years. I am incapable of seeing women as people. It used to be possible to get by in political life in this country with this condition. You would just move around a smoky room, speaking only to men, and you could have a nice career. But now, oh, these things, these things are everywhere. Holding elected office, performing jobs, playing soccer! You must understand my agony when I behold this. So much good meat, delicious meat, wonderful meat — It is with difficulty that I shamble into the company of people every day. It ...
Font Size Saturday's CBS Evening News devoted its “Weekend Journal” segment to, as anchor Russ Mitchell explained, “the Senate veteran who is known far and wide as 'Saint Jack.'" Bill Whitaker proceeded to relay, without any competing voices, the anti-Christian Right enmity of former moderate, at best, Missouri Republican Senator Jack Danforth who is on a crusade to rid the Republican Party of the influence of Christian conservatives. Whitaker began with a clip of Danforth declaring: "I am concerned about the Republican Party becoming, in essence, the party of the Christi...