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My Grandfather's Son is the title of the just-published memoir by Clarence Thomas. On this first Monday in October, the Justice's book tour brought him to ABC where Supreme Court correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg (subscription required) handled the q-&-a. She called him "a complex and compelling man" registering a range of emotions from sadness to anger to tenderness to humor: "He has got this big booming laugh that is always at the ready." Even 16 years after his successful confirmation to the Court, he called his Senate hearings "the most inhumane thing that has ever happened to me" and accused the Democrats who opposed him of "pernicious bigotry." Crawford Greenburg asked him about the "stereotype" that Thomas is "a puppet of conservative white Justice Antonin Scalia." Thomas paraphrased the accusation: "I could not be doing this myself. He must be doing it for me--because I am black. That is obvious. Again I go back to my point. Who are the real bigots?"
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