Black people put Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court and he repaid them with 'scorn': Joy Reid

MSNBC host Joy Reid said on Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "has been on a mission to dismantle every institutional attempt" to help anyone who has been disadvantaged by society.

Reid, who appeared on "All in with Chris Hayes", added that Thomas appears to operate from a "kind of rage, a cold rage," against the second half of the 20th century.

Thomas and Justice Alito reportedly feel this time period distorts "their image of America, as this country that is noble, and has always been noble, and whose slave-holding founders were noble, and really hated slavery, and were just so in pain from the fact that they had to own all these people, and that their wealth was derived from owning these people, but really they were good hearted."

What she found fascinating, according to her interview, is that Thomas didn't even speak English until 7 years old.

"He was so afraid to speak in front of white people," she said. "But he almost never spoke at all."

Reid noted that Thomas was "assisted by a white patron, really, his whole life."

"And to your very point, he seems to deeply resent all of the assistance he got. And he wants to make sure that nobody like him ever gets that kind of help again because it helps his self image so that he can like to himself and for himself, and maybe hate himself a little less for having gotten help all along his path to the Supreme Court."

Reid noted that "it was the polling that showed that about seven in ten black people supported his ascension to the seat once held by the great Thurgood Marshall. And he is not his equal."

"It was only black people support in those polls that got wavering democrats to vote for him. And he has repaid black people with scorn ever since."

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