Actor and activist George Takei has apologized for calling US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “a clown in blackface” in response to Thomas’ dissent to the Court’s ruling on marriage equality in Obergefell v Hodges. Thomas wrote in his dissent that the US government could not bestow therefore could not take away the dignity of slaves or Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
A visibly angry Takei who was incarcerated as a boy in a Japanese American internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas, told an Arizona reporter that Thomas did not belong in the Supreme Court, calling him “an embarrassment” and “a disgrace to America.”
At first, Takei stood by his comments, but then quickly apologized for his words.
