Prometheus 6

Just read it. 

Malcolm X was right about field Negroes and house Negroes. But what he didn't explain is that house Negroes wasn't just people who served massa. They were also on slave hunting teams. White overseers would use them to track down runaways. The Emerge cover depicted Thomas as a lawn jockey, because slave owners would use lawn jockeys to signal if slaves had escaped. The article wasn't much nicer. How hated is Thomas? When he tried to speak before a junior high school, half the parents wanted to retract the initiation. To a sitting Supreme Court justice. Many didn't let their kids go.

Keep in mind, this is in middle class, suburban Maryland, home of DC's professional class. Yet the reaction was nearly uniform.