"Forget The KKK, Modern-Day Liberals Are The Biggest Impediment": Clarence Thomas Reflects On Biden Experience

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says that modern day liberals posed the biggest impediment to his career, as opposed to what he was taught to believe.

"I felt as though in my life I had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic toward me. We were told that, 'Oh, it's gonna be the bigot in the pickup truck; it's gonna be the Klansmen; it's gonna be the rural sheriff," Thomas says in a forthcoming documentary, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words."

"But it turned out that through all of that, ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern day liberal," he added. "They were the ones who would discount all those things because they have one issue or because they have the power to caricature you," according to ABC News.

Thomas has joined public criticism of former Vice President and 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden, whose handling of Thomas's 1991 Supreme Court hearings when he was a Senator has fallen under harsh scrutiny.

Thomas sat for more than 22 hours of interviews over a six-month period in 2018, according to the film's publicist. Manifold has advertised the movie as a chance to "tell the Clarence Thomas story truly and fully, without cover-ups or distortions."

The movie also casts a spotlight on Biden, who has faced renewed criticism from his fellow Democrats for his treatment of Anita Hill, an African-American law professor who had accused Thomas of sexual harassment and testified publicly before the committee during the 1991 hearings. Biden called Hill to apologize earlier this year for his handling of the case. -ABC News

Thomas was eventually confirmed in the Senate by a slim margin of 52 to 48 on Oct. 15, 1991.

"Most of my opponents on the judiciary committee cared about only one thing," Thomas says in the film. "How would I rule on abortion rights. You really didn't matter and your life didn't matter. What mattered is what they wanted and what they wanted was this particular issue."

The documentary is set for theatrical release in early 2020 and will air on PBS next spring.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/forget-kkk-modern-day-liberals-are-biggest-impediment-clarence-thomas-reflects-biden

Will be seeing that one. I