The Washington Post on Wednesday completely sanitized a racist remark liberal activist George Takei made against Clarence Thomas. The 600 word article spun, "George Takei has responded to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the case that made marriage equality universal."
Yet writer Soraya Nadia McDonald never mentioned that the Star Trek actor snarled that the African American justice is a "clown in black face." Instead, McDonald focused on a less-incendiary op-ed by Takei for MSNBC.com.
The journalist delicately explained, "The former Star Trek star refuted Thomas’s dissent with an account of his personal experience, having endured life in an internment camp as a child."
There was no mention of these comments: "[Thomas] is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court. He gets me that angry. He doesn't belong there... This man does not belong on the Supreme Court. He is an embarrassment. He is a disgrace to America."
