Justice Clarence Thomas says blacks didn’t think about race in the 1950s South.

[CherokeeDem]

28. I grew up in South Carolina....

and I have no clue what this idiot is talking about. I was born in Aiken, and we used to go to Augusta, GA on Saturday mornings. My mother loved to shop at the department stores, and we would have breakfast at the dime store. It was a treat for me. I could get a coke and doughnut on Saturday mornings. We went in the front door and ate at the front counter. The blacks entered from a side door in the back and ate at a separate counter. I'm sure they didn't think about race...

There is an old pillar that sits on 5th Street in Augusta... it's reported to be from an old market that was destroyed, but someone put one of the pillars back up. Legend has it is a pillar where slaves were tied to be sold. I remember asking my father what it was and told me that story. I didn't want to walk past it after that. But I'm sure the blacks walking the streets of Augusta didn't think about race as they walked past that stone pillar.

My mother hired a woman to make slipcovers for a couch during the summer when I was about five or six. The woman was really nice, and I liked her and when it came time for lunch, I wanted her to eat with my mom and me. She refused, said it wouldn't be right. My mom told her we would be happy to have her join us... but she sat on the back steps eating her lunch from a brown paper bag, sitting there in there in her nicely pressed print dress. I bet she didn't think about race when she thought it wasn't right to eat with the white folk.

I have been appalled by Clarence Thomas since he was appointed to the Supreme Court. At one time, I actually believe that the people who served on the Supreme Court were intelligent, honorable people who would uphold the Constitution and protect the people. I was wrong. That ended when this ignorant excuse for a man became a justice of the Supreme Court.

A sad day, indeed...