Film Review: ‘Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words’

townhall.com ^ | 11/16/2019 | Sarah Lee

[rktman]

There’s a moment in the new Clarence Thomas documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” following the harrowing confirmation hearing that saw the gentle man, loving husband, and legal genius from Pin Point, Ga., accused of sexual harassment and smeared as a lecherous monster, that sticks with you long after the 2-hour film ends.

It’s the look Thomas has on his face at his swearing-in ceremony. He’s not elated by the prospect of joining the Supreme Court. He looks tired and maybe more than a little concerned for his safety.

And it’s an indictment of the people — one of the most prominent in the person of then-Senator Joe Biden who came across as something of a grand inquisitor — who put Thomas through what he called at the time a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.”

[rktman]

So, does the AA community consider him a sell out? Pretty sad the way conservative African Americans are vilified by the left constantly. Basically, if you don't fall in line, you're scum. Read Justice Thomas' book 'My Grandfathers Son' years ago. Good read. At least for me it was. As for the hateful demo-commies, screw them.

[Spacetrucker]

The great Clarence Thomas, like so many cut from his cloth, are just not black enough for the race-baiting, poverty pimp pandering class. In their minds the world would be a much more hospitable place if he and his ilk would just kowtow to their single-minded dictates.

[cyclotic]

I was unemployed during the hearings and had the time to watch nearly all of them. Like Andrew Breightbart, the Clarence Thomas lynching greatly informed my conservatism and was responsible for my belief that active democrats are evil. Even more so now.

PBS huh? Might have to lower my standards to watch it.

[rktman]

Not sure if I have access to it.

[rawcatslyentist]

Black enough? The only thing Jug Ears did was tell em to kill whitey. Real helpful.

[NobleFree]

I wasn’t going to let what little my family and I had cobbled together to be so wantonly smashed. My enemies wanted nothing more than for me to go quietly. I, on the other hand, owed it to my family and the memory of my grandparents and forebears not to self-destruct but to confront them with the truth.

Justice Thomas is a brilliant and courageous man - a far better civil servant than most of us deserve.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Biden distinguished himself as an enemy of decency during the Thomas confirmation process.

[personalaccts]

I geared up reading that book

[rktman]

👍🎬

[Jacquerie]

I can’t say that I’ve read more than a few of Clarence Thomas’ dissenting opinons. But of those I’ve read, every one is a scholarly trip along the way of our Constitution and colonial history.

May God Bless Clarence Thomas. May God damn to hell Leftist barbarians.

[Spacetrucker]

Amen. Meeting Clarence Thomas is on my bucket list. Was going to be Antonin Scalia and him but that’s no longer an option.

[happytrumper]

“Biden distinguished himself as an enemy of decency during the Thomas confirmation process.’

He sure did — his filthy mind showed itself. Kerry was a part of that.