separatism was everything he believed in, including not interracial marriage. clearest thomas s early years are fascinating in the sense that you watch the trajectory coming out of the rejection. each time he s rejected by a different group, he seeking, home he follows the politics of whatever the group is that s going to support him. so that by the time he s in reagan s washington post, he joins the republican revolution with reagan because it 1% of the film says the line was short of four black people over there than it is with the democratic party. so clarence notice that. and began to adapt and adopt the politics of reagan. so he could support it from the background. that was really, prevalent, the ticket to move up and raise enough eyebrows and enough attention for himself to become potentially a nominee for the united states supreme court in a republican administration. coming up next, school districts across the country are experiencing the highest