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156 - The Forbidden Island

No Dumb Questions

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The Sentinel Island Thing

CNN's John Sutter talks to Matt Lauer about the Sentinel Island thing. The island is a tiny, numerically of no consequence people group that has never really met anybody from the mainland. What would it be like to be an Indian legislator in the 1950s coming off of everything with the Indian independence movement? "I think the ethically consistent thing in their mind is probably what they did," he says.

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