MSNBC host Tiffany Cross went on a vulgar tirade against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, on her weekend program.
Cross unleashed on Mr. and Mrs. Thomas during a Saturday segment of her program The Cross Connection, which began with her going after conservative TV personality Megyn Kelly. Kelly had called Cross a “dumb***” and “the most racist person on television” this week after Cross described the NFL’s response to Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion as an example of the league’s “complete disregard for black bodies and black life.” Cross used the issue to segue to the Thomas duo.
“Yeah, it must be deja vu. Either that, or I’m catching body No. 2,” Cross said of Kelly. “Which brings me to another problematic white woman who warrants some attention this week: Clarence Thomas. On this very day in 1991, ‘Justice Pubic Hair on my Coke Can’ was confirmed to the Supreme Court, and even though we collectively knew how bad it was then, we didn’t know just how problematic Tom would be until now.”
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The “pubic hair” nickname was a reference to Anita Hill, the woman who upended Thomas’s 1991 Senate confirmation process with sexual harassment allegations, which she documented in widely televised hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hill testified at the hearings, which were led by then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Joe Biden, that while working for Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he asked her who had put pubic hair on his Coca-Cola.
“Tom,” which Cross called the Supreme Court justice, is short for the term “Uncle Tom,” or a black man who is excessively obedient to white people.
Taking aim at Thomas’s legal career and education, Cross continued: “Now, the man who succeeded Thurgood Marshall — becoming the second black justice and yet not representing the interests of black men at all — will certainly end up with an equally consequential legacy. For example, after benefiting from affirmative action, he was one of the 12 black students entering Yale Law School in 1971, Justice Clayton Bigsby later firmly opposed it. And of course, there is Commander Waterford’s staunch stance against abortion rights.”
Clayton Bigsby was an iconic character from comedian Dave Chappelle’s sketch comedy program Chappelle’s Show. Bigsby, a blind black man, believes he is white and identifies as a white supremacist. Commander Waterford is one of the main antagonists in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a fictional dystopian novel about the overthrow of the U.S. government and the sexual enslavement of the nation’s fertile women.
While Cross said there “are many, many problems with Thomas,” she argued that the biggest is “his insurrectionist-sympathizing, Jordan Peel Get Out-inspired wife.”
“Sadly we won’t get to see the Real Housewives of Insurrection’s testimony before the January 6th committee, because they reportedly reached an agreement with her to not videotape,” she continued, going on to note the conservative activist’s efforts to help overturn the 2020 presidential election with those in former President Donald Trump’s orbit, including then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, as well as GOP state lawmakers.
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Cross then explained that she wanted to mark the anniversary of Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation by sharing the “important reminder that two problematic people were apparently confirmed to lifetime appointments that day.”
Throwing in one last nickname, she called on Thomas and his wife to “get out” and take Kelly, “the thirsty raisin in the potato salad,” with them.
“Because you all seem to be cut from the same cloth,” she concluded.
