WACO, Texas (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says “elites in the North” have said far worse about him than any prejudice he encountered growing up as an African-American in the segregated South.
Thomas told an audience Thursday at McLennan Community College in Waco that he was never called a racial slur at his Georgia high school where he was the only black student.
The conservative jurist, appointed to the court in 1991, told a panel that circumstances such as poverty and lack of education are difficult to overcome. But that those circumstances “know no race … know no geography.”
The Waco Tribune-Herald reported that Thomas later joked that people can identify themselves as a progressive if they read a “Stop” sign and believe the message applies whenever they want.
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Information from: Waco Tribune-Herald, https://www.wacotrib.com
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