During an interview broadcast on Wednesdays edition of the Fox News Channels Ingraham Angle, Justice Clarence Thomas stated that he doesnt know what Americans can say they have in common as a country.
Host Laura Ingraham asked Thomas, Are you surprised that how things are still so rancorous in the United States today about foundational issues? Not about just foundational issues, the anthem and so forth?
He answered, No, Im not surprised. I mean, what binds us? What do we all have in common anymore? I think we have to think about that. I think this is when I was a kid, even as we had laws that held us apart, there were things that we held dear and that we all had in common. And I think we have to we always talk about E pluribus unum. Whats our unum now? We have the pluribus. Whats the unum? And I think its a great country. I think we, for whatever reasons, have made it our some people have decided that the Constitution isnt worth defending, that history isnt worth defending, that the culture and principles arent worth defending. And, certainly, if you are in my position, they have to be worth defending. Thats what keeps you going. Thats what energizes you.
I dont know what it is that we have, we can say instinctively, we have as a country in common.