African American Museum Quiet About Clarence Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black member of the current Supreme Court, is largely ignored by the recently-opened National Museum of African American History and Culture. The museum’s one reference to Thomas is “a shocking slight that the museum must redress,” Mark Paoletta, a lawyer who was a member of President George H. W. Bush’s White House Counsel, writes in The Hill. The absence is especially glaring, Paoletta writes, because this year marks Thomas’ 25^th on the Court. “In that time, Justice Thomas has established a reputation as quite simply one of the most important legal thinkers of his generation. Justice Thomas’ story of his rise from poverty to the Supreme Court should be known by all Americans.”