their character and not the impact but especially thomas is having on the court almost 25 years later. ainsley: some parallels between justice kavanaugh and justice thomas. when you talk to your friend justice thomas, is it worth it and i look at these men to be on the supreme court, what a high honor, biggest honor for their profings. but is it worth it? yes. ainsley: what does he say to that? listen, i wald a little surprised when i i was a little surprised when i saw the clip. first two years when thomas was on the court, he was still trying to figure out what happened. why did this happen to me? why was there this character assassination? and you know the thing that we forget what thomas said when he used high tech lynching, we have to remember the context in which he mentioned it in. he said this is reserved for uppity black people. uppity black men who don t know what they think. who don t know their place. who don t know what to say. this is what the he a let in academia a