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Offline Ralph Wiggum

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Anita Hill's still standing 22 years later.
« on: March 17, 2014, 10:57:31 AM »
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Anita Hill's still standing 22 years later. I watched every minute of the proceedings, did you?


By Robin Abcarian
March 16, 2014, 9:00 p.m.

The new documentary about Anita Hill opens with a close-up of a telephone and a bizarre voice mail message:

"Good morning, Anita Hill. It's Ginni Thomas, and I just wanted to reach across the air waves, and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime, and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought, I certainly pray about this and hope one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. OK! Have a good day."

That obnoxious request, left on Hill's office voice mail in October 2010, is the last we hear from Ginni Thomas in "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power" by Oscar-winning director Freida Mock. The film, which opened in Los Angeles and New York on Friday, is a perfect jumping-off point for Hill's story, as it so perfectly distills the right-wing's fervent desire to rewrite the history of the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings.

It's been more than 22 years since the Senate Judiciary Committee heard a soft-spoken 35-year-old University of Oklahoma law professor recount graphic instances of sexual harassment at the hands of her former boss. Despite Ginni Thomas' prayers, Hill has never backed down from her allegations. Why would she, since she was so obviously telling the truth?

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-abcarian-anita-hill-20140317,0,5507302.story#axzz2wEKS48Bk

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6. I watched the hearings. Anita Hill was undeniably believable.


Clarence Thomas, on the other hand, was absolutely frantic in his denials. And yet there he sits, silent, on the Supreme Court, while his right-wing crazo wife continues to spew constant untruths. If a liberal jurist's spouse were engaged in the same sort of political activity as Ginni Thomas, the entire right wing noise machine would be in hysterics over it. I'm glad this new film is coming out; it's going to refresh a lot of memories as to the sort of ugly behavior that Ms. Hill was subjected to, and the courageous, principled way in which she dealt with adversity.

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7. I watched (and recorded) every minute.

As a result I can never forgive Joe Biden for allowing a public stoning of a good woman.

jftr - In graduate school I did a paper on the effectiveness of the EEOC and changes/lack of progress as a result of the commission. Fortunately I was able to speak to law professors (women) from all over the country who taught in this area. To a person they volunteered that the head of the EEOC was a serial sexual harasser which was obviously a problem. This was 5-6 years before he was nominated to the Court. So everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, knew about him.

Later I became acquainted with Anita and told her about my paper and she confirmed the fact that Clarence was a serial sexual harasser. It was another 4 years before she testified in that Senate hearing.

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8. I knew Anita Hill before the Clarence Thomas hearings

Kmew her from my university days.

Never doubted her credibility or her testimony.

Also had occasion to encounter some of her asshat former colleagues who offered contrary testimony.

Trivia buffs here might be interested to know that Anita Hill was one of Michele Bachmanm's law professors. Way back before Anita taught at OU. Her first teching gig was at the OW Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University. OW Coburn was Senator Tom Coburns father. In the mid-80s Oral Roberts gave the law school to Pat Robertson and it moved cross country and became Regent University School of Law. Small world. Context explains a lot of the hate directed toward her.

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11. Yes I did

and I will never forget Joe Biden's role in getting Clarence Thomas shoved onto the Supreme Court. The Republicans did what the Republicans do, but we should have been able to count on the Democrats to put up a fight. And some did. And some folded and one of those was Joe Biden who came to an agreement with the Republicans to NOT ALLOW THE OTHER 4 WOMEN WHO WERE READY, WILLING AND EAGER TO TESTIFY against Thomas. Thanks, Joe, you sniveling Third-Way capitulator!

Hey DUmmies, can you say Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas?  I knew you could.  So suck on it.

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Re: Anita Hill's still standing 22 years later.
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2014, 11:07:46 AM »
Yet they kneel before Bubba the rapist.
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Re: Anita Hill's still standing 22 years later.
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2014, 11:23:00 AM »
And Clarence Thomas is still on the SCOTUS.
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Re: Anita Hill's still standing 22 years later.
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2014, 11:33:01 AM »
Quote from: jukin on March 17, 2014, 11:23:00 AM
And Clarence Thomas is still on the SCOTUS.

Damn...beat me to it.
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Re: Anita Hill's still standing 22 years later.
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2014, 12:44:08 PM »
Justice Thomas was a practice run.
They learned from it.
Ask Herman Cain.

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Re: Anita Hill's still standing 22 years later.
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2014, 12:47:37 PM »
They got a crazy old dingbat and 2 lezzies on the court and they still ain't happy.
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