Clarence Thomas: Morals and Leadership
             Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, an extremely controversial African-American justice of ten years, is frequently criticized as an inconsistent judge, but one cannot blame any shortcoming due to his chain of reason on decayed ethics. Justice Thomas holds an exceedingly lengthy history of contradicting opinions and unpopular outlooks that discredit him among the public. He has been accused of only one moral fault, which was never proven and, in fact, was doubted by the majority of the populace. Any moral inadequacy that the justice may boast only adds to the citizens' mistrust. Although Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may be an inadequate justice, his personality and principles make him so, not any immorality that he may possess.
             Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 in Pinpoint, Georgia, a coastal area named for the plantation that had previously been on the land. His mother Leola cared for him and his siblings for a while after his father M. C. Thomas left. Their house burned down and Leola married a man who didn't want to raise her children so she sent her two boys to live with her parents, Mr. And Mrs. Myers Anderson, and her daughter to live with her Aunt Annie in Pin Point. Myers Anderson had a profound effect on young Clarence's life. Anderson owned his own fuel oil business during a time that segregation kept African-Americans who were not self-motivated from doing any job unless it was menial work. Thomas attended a strict, all-black, Catholic grammar school where the white nuns were often targets of the Ku Klux Klan. After two years in a segregated high school, Clarence's grandfather insisted that he transfer to a previously all-white boarding school. On completion of high school, Thomas en!
             tered a seminary to study for priesthood ("Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Justice" 1). One of only four black students in the seminary, Thomas...