Conservatives: George Takei worse than KKK for calling Clarence Thomas a ‘clown in blackface’
Conservatives are livid over recent comments by George Takei, claiming the former Star Trek actor and gays rights activist is racist — with some even comparing him to a Ku Klux Klan member.
Takei defended himself from the attacks on Thursday, insisting he wasn’t racist for calling Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas “a clown in blackface.” On his Facebook page, Takei wrote that “blackface” was “traditional theater lingo” that was a part of the “racist history in this country.”
“I feel Justice Thomas has abdicated and abandoned his African American heritage by claiming slavery did not strip dignity from human beings. He made a similar remark about the Japanese American internment, of which I am a survivor. A sitting Justice of the Supreme Court ought to know better,” he former actor added.
The conservative media watchdog NewsBusters reported Thursday that Takei had “unleashed a racist rant” against the Supreme Court justice over his dissent in the case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Thomas had written that governments could not strip humans beings of their inherent dignity. “Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved,” he wrote.
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