Hannity To Justice Thomas: Your ‘Left-Wing’ Critics Are ‘Racist’

In his new book, My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas writes that he had grown up in the South fearing the Ku Klux Klan’s lynch mobs, but that in the end, liberals were more ferocious:

I’d grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult, I was starting to wonder if I’d been afraid of the wrong white people all along. My worst fears had come to pass not in Georgia, but in Washington, D.C., where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Last night on Fox News, host Sean Hannity asked Thomas about these “left-wing zealots” and charged that all the Justice’s critics are “racist.” Watch it:

Thomas never disagrees with Hannity. He simply says he hasn’t been able to figure out any other reason people are criticizing and “trying to destroy” him. The opposition to Thomas isn’t based on the color of his skin, but on his radical conservative ideologies.

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Transcript:

HANNITY: When your father threw you out of the house, the first place you went to work, they had Ku Klux Klan written on the bathroom stalls.

THOMAS: But those people — but remember what I also said, they sat along the edges and never said a word.

HANNITY: But to say — but to have that background and to live through that experience, and then say, I grew up fearing the lynch mobs of the Klan as an adult, I was starting to wonder if I’d been afraid the wrong people all along, in describing those that systematically went about destroying you. And you listed one — Confederate flag issues, financial issues, they were looking to take you down.

THOMAS: To destroy. But see…

HANNITY: To destroy you.

THOMAS: … what you contrast that with, the people that we would all sneer at who sat along the edges of the bathroom at the Union camp (ph) who did nothing, never said a word.

HANNITY: Right.

THOMAS: Never tried to harm me or any — I’m not saying they — I’m not defending them. But I’m just simply saying that they were the people that we would all just simply say, These are racists. But what of the people who were trying to destroy me?

HANNITY: Yes.

THOMAS: That’s the point that I was trying to make with that paragraph, what are they?

HANNITY: They’re racist.

THOMAS: Well, I mean, so if you say, for example, that people shouldn’t say that, you know, I’m sitting there thinking about this, Why are they doing this?