American society is more "conscious" of race than it was in the segregated south and during the early period of the civil rights struggle, U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas told a college audience on Tuesday, Yahoo News reported.
Thomas told students at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla., that he was saddened that America was more race conscious than it was in that earlier era.
He spoke of growing up as a Catholic and African American in Savannah, Ga., "the first black kid" to attend his all white school. "Rarely did the issue of race come up," Thomas said.
"Now, name a day it doesn't come up.
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