Ted Cruz: Justice Clarence Thomas Used to Be an Angry Left-Wing Radical in Law School

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CRUZ: "I‘ve known Justice Thomas for, for more than 30 years. I respect him immensely. And what I try to do in the book is three things simultaneously. Number one, tell his his personal story. He was born into abject poverty in rural Georgia, born in 1948, just a couple of years after World War II. He was born before Brown v. Board of Education, at a time of segregated schools. He faced enormous poverty. English was his second language. Actually, growing up as a kid in coastal Georgia, he spoke Geechee, which is a dialect that is common in coastal Georgia. He was raised by his grandfather, who was a strict disciplinarian. His grandfather — his own autobiography is called 'My Grandfather‘s Son,' and his grandfather and his grandmother taught him discipline and taught him hard work and turned him into the man he is. There is no justice who has gone from such abject poverty to the absolute pinnacle of American law. But secondly, when Clarence Thomas was in college and law school, he was an angry left-wing radical. And so in this book I chronicle his journey from being a left-wing radical to one of the most important conservative voices the country has ever seen.”