Shortly after listening to this, I had the occasion to visit the Pin Point Heritage Museum. Clarence Thomas is from a small (like one street) waterfront neighborhood on the outskirts of Savannah, GA. It used to be a fishing community before the surrounding area was turned into expensive real estate and golf clubs, minus a few areas.
The museum is a defunct oyster factory. You certainly learn that Clarence Thomas came from here, but in the half hour documentary where various local residents are interviewed, their names are not shown until the end. So Justice Thomas is actually in it talking about the local culture, but I could tell whether it was him or his brother or something until the credits came on. The museum treats him as just one of the guys.
I didn’t get any real answer on what the locals thought of his politics, but the museum itself was deeply conservative, with everything being about religion and respecting your elders and hard work and literally conserving the local culture and history. The surrounding neighborhood is focused around the church at the end of the block. One of the houses had a Lion of Judah flag on it, but other than that I didn’t get a lot of strong political signals (i.e. no “BLM”, no “in this house we believe”, no “MAGA”, etc.).
The Supreme Court is more of a typical hangout for me than a coastal island in Georgia, but having been to both, it’s really hard for someone inside the beltway to fathom what’s going on in the Lowcountry. I certainly did not get the sense that Justice Thomas was anything other than true to his roots.
Shortly after listening to this, I had the occasion to visit the Pin Point Heritage Museum. Clarence Thomas is from a small (like one street) waterfront neighborhood on the outskirts of Savannah, GA. It used to be a fishing community before the surrounding area was turned into expensive real estate and golf clubs, minus a few areas.
The museum is a defunct oyster factory. You certainly learn that Clarence Thomas came from here, but in the half hour documentary where various local residents are interviewed, their names are not shown until the end. So Justice Thomas is actually in it talking about the local culture, but I could tell whether it was him or his brother or something until the credits came on. The museum treats him as just one of the guys.
I didn’t get any real answer on what the locals thought of his politics, but the museum itself was deeply conservative, with everything being about religion and respecting your elders and hard work and literally conserving the local culture and history. The surrounding neighborhood is focused around the church at the end of the block. One of the houses had a Lion of Judah flag on it, but other than that I didn’t get a lot of strong political signals (i.e. no “BLM”, no “in this house we believe”, no “MAGA”, etc.).
The Supreme Court is more of a typical hangout for me than a coastal island in Georgia, but having been to both, it’s really hard for someone inside the beltway to fathom what’s going on in the Lowcountry. I certainly did not get the sense that Justice Thomas was anything other than true to his roots.