When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
Clarence ThomasDifferences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesnโt look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, Iโd still be in Savannah.
Clarence ThomasIt really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
Clarence ThomasUnfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.
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