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Part One: The Clarence Thomas Story

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Black Man's History

Lik boy a and his first trip to washington, d c, the very first time he ever goes is a march on the pentagon against the vietnom war. He organizes a free breakfast program for kids in wooester patterned off what the black panthers had done. The last protest he ever goes to turns into a mass of street ba brawl,. Two thousand cops assault three thousand protesters demanding the release of black panther co founder bobby seal and a prominent leading panther, eric huggins. Years later, thomas would insist, quote, i was never a liberal. I was a radical.

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