Opening Argument - Affirming Justice Thomas

by Stuart Taylor Jr

Sat. Oct. 13, 2007


For all the new attention focused on the tired old arguments about whether Clarence Thomas did or did not talk dirty to Anita Hill almost 25 years ago, his recently published memoir raises far more consequential issues. At the top of the list is Justice Thomas's impassioned account in My Grandfather's Son and recent media interviews of his conviction that racial affirmative-action preferences do African-Americans more harm than good.

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