A few quotes from a great book that a highly recommend,
Supreme Discomfort.
"One bitter lesson Thomas has taken from his experience is that racism is a sad, immutable fact. The sooner black people realize that and gird themselves for that reality, he says, the better off they will be."
"Ketanji Brown Jackson remembers sitting across from Thomas at lunch with a quizzical expression on her face. She and Wu were in the same class of Breyer clerks. Jackson, who is black, said Thomas "spoke the language," meaning he reminded her of the black men she knew. "But I just sat there the whole time thinking, 'I don't understand you. You sound like my parents. You sound like people I grew up with.' But the lessons he tended to draw from the experiences of the segregated South seemed to be different than those of everybody I know."
And for my JBO brethren:
"He remembers Thomas being all fired up about seeing the film. "My favorite movie of all time is
Deep Throat," Thomas told Johnson, "I've seen that motherfukker six times."
"As a young federal bureaucrat in Washington, Thomas rented adult videos from Graffiti, a store off Dupont Circle. It was there that Fred Cooke, the former D.C. corporation counsel, saw him at the checkout line during the late 1980's with a copy of
The Adventures of Bad Mama Jama, a triple-X-rated flick featuring the sexual exploits of a hugely overweight black woman with abnormally large breasts."