Justice Clarence Thomas: Obama Was Elected Because He’s ‘Approved’ By ‘Elites And The Media’

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued, in an interview aired by C-SPAN, that President Obama was elected because he had the approval of “elites and the media.” Those who don’t fit the “prescribed” mold of “what to expect from a black person,” he said, are torn apart by the media.

Thomas said he did expect that the country would have a black president during his lifetime. “I always knew is that it would have to be a black president who was approved by the elites and the media because anybody they didn’t agree with, they would take apart,” he contended when speaking at a panel at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh last month.

“You pick your person,” he added. “Any black person who says something that is not the prescribed things that they expect from a black person will be picked apart.”

“There is a price to pay,” Thomas said, noting that he’d assumed a black president would be one the media agreed with.

Thomas said he met the president once in passing, when he visited the Supreme Court, but hasn’t spoken with him at length.

“I don’t do a lot of Washington and I’m not into politics, so I mean there’s not that many occasions,” he said. “I shook hands with him at the inauguration, very polite, but I’ve had no in-depth conversation.”

The clip below, via C-SPAN:

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