Biden’s Original Sin: The Confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas
Putting a Black woman on the court doesn’t atone for what happened to Anita, nor does it solve the problem of the wife of Justice Thomas being a (Trumpy) lobbyist
A brief history lesson, since for some people, if a thing didn’t happen in the last year or two, it counts as ancient history. The Anita Hill testimony at the confirmation hearing for Justice Clarence Thomas was back in 1991, but that is not ancient history for me. Some things, if you are a woman demanding respect for women, stick with you, and what Anita said happened to her, and how her testimony was dismissed and written off, and how she was treated — that is to say mistreated — by a wall of all white male Senators has stuck with me ever since. There is no “forgive and forget” in me on this. I watched that hearing, I listened to her testimony, I remember the Long Dong Silver, and all the rest.
To be fair, it is true that then Senator Joe Biden did not vote for Clarence Thomas. However, Biden was the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, so he presided over the hearings, presided over Anita Hill’s testimony, and he neither came to her defense nor allowed further witnesses to come in. These other women could have corroborated Hill’s testimony…
