Behind the Bastards has some episodes on him. It’s been a while so I don’t fully recall, but my memory of it was that he was always kinda gross and misogynist, and he was also self serving in hus choices. Those choices didn’t always make him the right wing shitbag that he is now, since he originally was part of the Black Panthers.
After some time working for black Civil rights, he saw more money on the republican side and also saw hypocrisy on the democratic side. He said something to the effect of ‘They’re all racists, but at least Republicans are racist to your face/honest about it’(hey that sounds familiar…)
Again I remember money being a big part of it, so I’ve chalked him up to just being a selfish asshole who fought for causes once that would help himself and that made him look like he was on the right side of history once.
I was talking about his earlier days before being in the court, where he was inspired by Malcom X and the Black Panthers, though he seemed more interested in the hard militarized image of them:
inspired by the Black Panthers.”
“He dressed like them. He talked like them. He had a beret. He had Army fatigues and he had the Army boots,” Gordon Davis, a former classmate, recalls in the above clip.
Thomas had a poster of Malcolm X in his dorm room. He reportedly boasted that he had read all of the activist’s speeches and, at one time, could have quoted some of them by heart. Thomas was not alone in his frustration with racial injustice at the time.
“I had evolved from being hopeful to being pissed off. A lot of young people in America was pissed off,” Orion Douglass, another of Thomas’ former classmates, says in the clip. “And they weren’t seeking a reconciliation, okay? They were seeking a coup, to change the whole thing.”
Edit but you’re probably right that he never worked toward it. I kinda recall him being a lawyer for a while and thought he may have back then, but I could be remembering wrong.
He’s obsessed with the image of authority and power, the black Panthers just happened to be humbling the state of California and the federal government generally. Ie. Hes am art collector that cares about the price not the content.
Behind the Bastards has some episodes on him. It’s been a while so I don’t fully recall, but my memory of it was that he was always kinda gross and misogynist, and he was also self serving in hus choices. Those choices didn’t always make him the right wing shitbag that he is now, since he originally was part of the Black Panthers.
After some time working for black Civil rights, he saw more money on the republican side and also saw hypocrisy on the democratic side. He said something to the effect of ‘They’re all racists, but at least Republicans are racist to your face/honest about it’(hey that sounds familiar…)
Again I remember money being a big part of it, so I’ve chalked him up to just being a selfish asshole who fought for causes once that would help himself and that made him look like he was on the right side of history once.
He didn’t really ever work for civil rights, he’s been the token “good one” on the court his entire tenure.
I was talking about his earlier days before being in the court, where he was inspired by Malcom X and the Black Panthers, though he seemed more interested in the hard militarized image of them:
Edit but you’re probably right that he never worked toward it. I kinda recall him being a lawyer for a while and thought he may have back then, but I could be remembering wrong.
He’s obsessed with the image of authority and power, the black Panthers just happened to be humbling the state of California and the federal government generally. Ie. Hes am art collector that cares about the price not the content.