"The successful movement is always going to be ordinary people doing extraordinary things," says Kevin Alexander Gray, somewhat of an expert on social movements. A longtime civil rights organizer and resident of South Carolina, Gray has been involved in movements from the Rainbow Coalition to campaigns to organize class action suits against banks.

Gray joined us in studio to talk about his new book, Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics, the myth of post-racial America, James Brown, and why he calls Obama's administration "the Novocaine presidency."