Democrat Rep. James Clyburn (SC) launched a nasty attack against Clarence Thomas and suggested the conservative Supreme Court Justice is a race traitor.

Clyburn made the remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press” during an interview with host Kristen Welker.

“Do you stand by your decision to make the case for Clarence Thomas’s confirmation?” Kristen Welker asked Clyburn.

“Absolutely not. I have made mistakes in my life and that is one that I’ve made,” Clyburn said.

“I will own up to that mistake,” he said.

“I had no idea that Clarence Thomas would rebel the way he has against his own background and experiences,” Clyburn added.

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Last week, in a rare interview, conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hit back at leftists who believe black people can’t be conservative.

Clarence Thomas sat down for an interview with Senator Ted Cruz on the “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast.

Justice Thomas slammed the idea that black people cannot be conservative.

“We had this saying [that there are] only two things I have to do: stay Black and die,” Justice Thomas told Ted Cruz.

“That was a retort to people who had these sort of requirements for us, these these mandates for us because of our skin color,” he said.

“But at any rate, they think that here’s the way you’re supposed to think. Again, here’s your skin color. There’s this kind of deterministic view that you’re supposed to think this because we say so,” Thomas said.

Justice Thomas the left sees him as a “walking contradiction.”

“And I, of course, declined that invitation. And so now that means that something, that I’m a walking contradiction because I’ve deviated from their perception of what I should think,” Justice Thomas said to Ted Cruz.

Clarence Thomas was appointed to the US Supreme Court by President George H. W. Bush in 1991.