What do black people think about Clarence Thomas?

By most social standards, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would be considered a model African-American. ... In this place where a mother who worked as a maid for $10 a week raised him early on in a run-down shanty with no bathroom or electricity, people feel no connection with Thomas. read more

Unqualified, sell-out and an embarrassment coming off of Thurgood Marshall's tenure on the Court as the first African-American judge. To me, Thomas has done nothing to distinugush himself. read more

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Capitol Hill in 2007 in Washington. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This question originally appeared on Quora, the best answer to any question. read more

In 2002, Thomas told the Washington Post: “[I] can’t think of any good the NAACP ever did. Civil rights leaders, in general, just bitch, bitch, bitch, moan and moan, whine and whine.” In short – Clarence Thomas has never forgiven his fellow blacks for the way they treated him as a youth. read more