Clarence Thomas’s first public scandal got here in 1980, when he was a no-name aide to a GOP senator and complained to a journalist that his sister simply waited by the mailbox for her welfare test
Clarence Thomas in 1992.Larry Downing/Sygma/Sygma through Getty Photographs In 1980, 32-year-old Clarence Thomas was a no-name aide to a Republican senator. At a convention for Black conservatives, he complained to a journalist about his sister being on welfare. The journalist, Juan Williams, wrote a column about it that caught the eye of Reagan’s staff. Lengthy … Read more