Clarence Thomas and Yale begin to repair relationship
It would hardly seem newsworthy that a Supreme Court justice was going to be the keynote speaker at a gathering of alumni of his elite law school.
Except when the justice is Clarence Thomas, and the elite law school is Yale.
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It is hard to overstate the estrangement between Thomas and Yale. In his 2007 autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son,” the justice was withering in his criticism of some of the professors and students he met in New Haven and said the law school’s affirmative action policies tainted his diploma.
“I’d learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much anyone denied it,” said Thomas, who was one of a handful of black students in his class.
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After graduation, “as a symbol of my disillusionment, I peeled a fifteen-cent price sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I’d made by going to Yale,” he wrote.
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And Thomas felt a lack of support from the school during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, when Anita Hill, Class of 1980, accused Thomas of sexually harassing her when she worked for him in the federal government.
full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clarence-thomas-and-yale-begin-to-repair-relationship/2012/05/31/gJQADKyK5U_story.html
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