Posted on 10/09/2007 8:34:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
All that many people know about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the accusations against him by Anita Hill during his confirmation hearings in 1991.
However, such subsequent events as the "rape" accusations against Duke University students last year and, before that, a similar hoax in the Tawana Brawley case, have belatedly demonstrated how mindless it is to automatically accept accusations, as many in the media did with Anita Hill.
Now, with the recent publication of Justice Thomas' memoir, "My Grandfather's Son," Anita Hill has surfaced again in the media to repeat her accusations.
The time is long overdue to take a hard look at hard facts, so that we can put those accusations in the garbage can, where they belong.
The first of these hard facts is that, contrary to what has been repeated so often in the media, it was not just a question of what "he said" versus what "she said."
A whole phalanx of female witnesses who had worked with both Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill came out in support of him at his confirmation hearings.
One of those witnesses went out of her way to point out that the image that Anita Hill projected on television bore no resemblance to the behavior and attitudes of either Anita Hill or Clarence Thomas that she had seen with her own eyes.
On the other side, one witness backed up Anita Hill's story by saying that she had been told the same things by Anita Hill when they both lived in Washington.
But then the fact came out that this star witness had left Washington before Anita Hill went to work for Clarence Thomas, so there was no way that her corroboration could be true.
There were ways in which different versions of events by Hill....
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Two of America’s greatest minds. Clarence Thomas & Thomas Sowell.
Thanks for posting, jazusamo.
This knowledge sure would have saved us a lot of time and anguish. I’m glad of the outcome.
“Two of America’s greatest minds. Clarence Thomas & Thomas Sowell.”
B T T T
Agreed....I’m really happy to see Dr. Sowell point out the defense of Justice Thomas like he did.
I wonder if that Dowd loony-tune from NYT read this article.
Hah! I doubt she reads Dr. Sowell, he makes too much sense and she is a whack job.
Think about it: The accusations referred to things that were supposed to have happened when only two people were present.
If the accusations were true, Clarence Thomas would automatically know who originated them. Anita Hill's request for anonymity made sense only if the charges were false.
Absolutely wonderful column. Thanks for posting it.
Granted, I'm basically teetering on the edge of exhaustion, but this is one of the more profound sentences I have read in quite a while.
If the accusations were true, Clarence Thomas would automatically know who originated them. Anita Hill's request for anonymity made sense only if the charges were false.
I confess that I didn't remember that particular piece of logic, but I think I was aware of it at the time - possibly because Sowell pointed it out, or otherwise. 'Course back then, we didn't have Sowell columns on the Internet; we didn't even have the Internet!To be subjected to the Anita Hill hoax must have been most excruciating - no less so than the Twana Brawley hoax or the Crystal Magnum/Mike Nifong hoax. And like Anita Hill, Al Sharpton came to prominence promoting a hoax (Brawley, in his case) and is still an eminence in the Democratic Party. How long 'til we hear that Nifong is prospering as a Democrat opposition researcher or something? He sounds like (shudder) just Hillary's kind of person.
“Two of America’s greatest minds. Clarence Thomas & Thomas Sowell.”
Preach It Bump! :)
Hopefully he’ll be doing the reasearch from inside a prison, in between visits from his numerous boyfriends.
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