Your post delineates a lot of what was shown in the documentary folk really need to watch to see who homeboy was, and became, and why, Professor: https://medium.com/@scpheonix/clarence-and-ginni-you-gotta-watch-this-on-pbs-fam-c5fbd4380dc

And it's certainly not lost on me when Jim Crow Joe headed the committee that confirmed his ass -- that he fell back on the "high-tech lynching" excuse as the reason for those who wanted to thwart his appointment. I'm so damned sick of ALL their asses!