Michelle Malkin has a great round up of the various Thomas Interviews. I can’t wait to read his book! He has been a hero of mine for a long long time.
“I was the black pinata”
CBS 60 Minutes had Thomas on the show sunday night. For a video of part one of this excellent interview with Steve Croft Go Here.
Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO: Sowell of a Justice
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me. — Matthew 25: 35
Thomas Sowell changed a young Clarence Thomas’s life.
Or, to be more specific, a Michael Novak review of a Thomas Sowell book, that appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
“I felt like a thirsty man gulping down a glass of cool water,” Justice Thomas writes in his deeply personal memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, released today, about reading the review.
Thomas recalls that a friend who knew that Thomas felt isolated — having rejected black power (after flirting with it in college), being uncomfortable with conventional liberalism, and not quite knowing where he fit in — called the review to his attention: “Take a look at the book review in this morning’s Wall Street Journal. It’s about another black guy who thinks like you.”
Sowell Inside American Education is required reading for parents everywhere. He has been a hero of mine for years as well, and one of my favorite writers. I love these two black men for the courage they have displayed under the most unrelenting pressure possible, that has never let up even after decades of rejection from the poverty pimps. Bless you both, your legacy will stand the test of time for the next generation of young black thinkers and writers, while those who enriched themselves at the expense of the poor and ingnorant will melt away into the nothingness of historical has beens.
Jenny Hatch