How the Supreme Court Got So Supreme
Notes from America with Kai Wright
The Questioning of the Revolution
"I closed out the 60s as one angry young man, waiting on the revolution that I was certain would soon come," he says. "How could a black man like his grandfather from the deep south who had survived the worst kind of bigotry possible refuse to admit that America was tainted and corrupt?" Something didn't add up for Thomas. He started to notice that the revolutionary road didn't seem to deliver for black people either. The questioning for me started in the spring of 1970 after an unauthorized demonstration in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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