Me. the question is whether it in the gym versus the supreme court and the chief justice. the number two democrat in the senate dick durbin of illinois, speaking yesterday about the wave of recent allegations surrounding supreme court justice clarence thomas and his wife ginni. last month, the pulitzer prize winning new site propublica revealed the findings of an investigation that showed four years that thomas s had been financially benefiting from a close friendship with billionaire and republican donor harlan crow. those allegations and the upbringings of clarence and ginni thomas are the focus of a new documentary from frontline and pbs premiering tomorrow. take a look. a bombshell report glance thomas accepted millions of dollars of luxury vacations amid controversy ginni thomas, under scrutiny for her efforts to overturn the election
Instantly hit it off. what was your first impression of him? my first impression of him was actually, man, you can t judge a book by its cover. he s a hard-core rapper, but yet this guy was asking me so many great questions. it was like it reminded me of myself. the two were an unlikely pair, two sons of philadelphians with dramatically different upbringings. did you come to think that maybe there are two philadelphia s, one that you grew up in and one that he grew up in? whether that was to philadelphia s, two worlds, the way he has been treated and the way i m treated, far before any success i ve had are different ways of being treated. ruben says he had never been in trouble with the law but meek had. he told reuben he had been on probation for years. we re going to this place, and he said i m not allowed to go. and i said do you need a note from your mother? we re going an hour away. he said no, i m on probation. in november 2017, meek was
Rising, more crazy people around and crazy things. but there is a disproportionate attention being paid to the wrong people claiming to be victims. a lot of people watching that video are thinking, those poor kids. they had traumatic upbringings. in other words, immediately wanting to position them as the victims and not the woman who is being attacked by these unbearable, violent, does respectful little brats. until society, where the same in the u.k., until they get back to treating victims as victims and the criminals as criminals, that s why i quoted your speech, until you do that society gets evermore dangerous and fractured. it s really incumbent i think on leaders to say, this cannot be tolerated. and you got to get back to treating victims as victims and criminals as criminals.
If we think about the homicide numbers in england and wales, they haven t changed in a0 years. and they re about between 600 and 700 each year. that s far too many people, numerically, of course, that s 700, 600 lives lost every year, and that s terrible, but in a population of 60 million people, actually, homicide is a very rare and unusual event. and it is unusual, very unusual, for well off people to do that. so, being brought up in adverse circumstances, be it abuse or be it poverty, whatever, you re saying, is a necessary condition, on the whole. it seems to be. but, i mean, there are lots of people who have had really difficult upbringings and, as you say, they don t go on to do this. and in your book, the devil you know, which hasjust come out in paperback, you talk about cases you don t give them their real names but you read them and these people just strike you as simply being evil, regardless of what their background has done to them.
And, of course, substance abuse. but there are lots of people from comfortable, well off backgrounds, men, and they go on to commit horrific deeds? i think the trouble is that there aren t lots. i mean, for example, if we think about the homicide numbers in england and wales, they haven t changed in a0 years. and they re about between 600 and 700 each year. that s far too many people, numerically, of course, that s 700, 600 lives lost every year, and that s terrible, but in a population of 60 million people, actually, homicide is a very rare and unusual event. and it is unusual, very unusual, for well off people to do that. so, being brought up in adverse circumstances, be it abuse or be it poverty, whatever, you re saying, is a necessary condition, on the whole. it seems to be. but, i mean, there are lots of people who have had really difficult upbringings and, as you say, they don t go on to do this. and in your book, the devil you know, which hasjust come out in paperback,