Clarence Thomas

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Since Clarence Thomas is back in the news, due to his wife asking for an apology from Anita Hill, I figured I would go over this story again. I was in high school when all this stuff originally went on. I didn't pay much attention to any of it. I knew sexual harassment had become quite the topic of discussion during the 90's. That was about all I knew concerning any of this.


Later on, I would slowly learn more about this issue and found it shocking that people were angry about Justice Thomas, even though there was really nothing other than a "she said, he said" allegation. It surprised me that things had even gone as far as they did.

I tend to agree with Laura, who actually worked for Thomas.



No one really knows for sure what happened here, to be fair, but Anita Hill did lie about her previous employment history. She was fired from her previous job and, during the Senate hearing, she said she was not.

According to Clarence Thomas, he hired Anita Hill at the urging of a friend because an official of the law firm at which she worked had advised her to leave. 


According to Ms. Hill — both then and now — she was not "asked to leave" the law firm but was "in good standing" at the time. 


This too was not just a question of "he said" and "she said." An affidavit sworn by a former partner in that law firm supported Clarence Thomas' version. That was ignored by most of the media.

It's also true that democrats had absolutely no problems with SEVERAL allegations that were made about Clinton. In his case, it wasn't just one woman making claims of sexual harassment. It's interesting that sexual allegations only matter when there is a conservative involved.

Also from the article:

In another instance, there was already hard evidence but it too was ignored. Clarence Thomas said that Anita Hill had initiated a number of phone calls to him, over the years, after she had left the agency where they both worked. She said otherwise. But a phone log from the agency showed that he was right.

Does this mean she lied about everything? I don't know but, no other allegations have ever been made about Thomas, and there were no other witnesses to anything that Anita Hill was accusing him of doing.

I believe Justice Thomas, not just because of ideological reasons but, because I believe he's proven himself to be a great man of integrity.