Clarence Thomas’s Wife Asks Anita Hill for Apology

[chrisrobin]

I never thought I would live in a country where you had to apologize for telling the truth.

Please read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us/politics/20thomas.html?_r=1&hp

Apparently, Ms. Thomas is a teabagger. Why am I not surprised?

 

[BostonPirate]

cold day in hell

When Thomas recuses himself from all the cases before them that his wife has her dirty little fingers in, it will be a concern.

 

[laikaNYC]

Anita Hill was nothing short of an opportunistic attention seeker who was willing to smear the name of a brilliant African American man just for publicity. She continues to live in shame to this day.

 

[laikaNYC]

No need to start in with the personal insults. It's quite classless. By the way, there's nothing radical about me. It's funny seeing you say that though because you just recently admitted to being a radical.

 

[BostonPirate]

No need to start in with the personal insults. It's quite classless.

you mean, classless as in a politcial hack coming to disrupt this thread?

ha

look talk to the points. You throw mud and bombs and never say what you think. Instead of being snarky just put down in writing why you think clarence thomas's wife would suddenly ask for an apology two weeks before the election.

Could it be to sew dissention within the african american community just a day after Obama called for unity within it?

see how that thinking thing works?

 

[BostonPirate]

No need to start in with the personal insults. It's quite classless. By the way, there's nothing radical about me. It's funny seeing you say that though because you just recently admitted to be a radical.

went back and edited your post again did we?

radical activist is not radical beliefs, and you are one of the most radical people I have ever known, so I don't care wwhether you approve of my gay activism. If I had not been ad activist in the 80's YOU would not have sites like this to go to.

Its time yourespect the gay people before you that made life bearable today for gay people.

 

[laikaNYC]

I asked you the other day to name just one of these proclaimed "radical beliefs" that you believe I have and you failed to do so. That's of course because I don't have any.

In the past you've also admitted to intentionally provoking police officers at gay pride parades to see if they would assault you so you could make a story of it. A truly disgusting admission of radicalism. Look at yourself in the mirror.

 

[BostonPirate]

I asked you the other day to name just one of my proclaimed "radical beliefs" and you failed to do so. That's of course because I don't have any.

In the past you've also admitted to intentionally provoking police officers at gay pride parades to see if they would assault you. A truly disgusting admission of radicalism. Look at yourself in the mirror.

you haven't asked me that at all

and what I did specifically was during the eighties.

see laika there were a lot of gay people dying of aids. The nurses refused to care for them. they would let the dying men lay in their beds full of feces and urine as their food sat outsidew their doors.

President Reagan refused to admit there was an epidemic going on and even refused to say the word AIDS.

So we did NOT wait for gay pride.

we called the press, told them we were going to be protesting and we laid in the streets and pretended to be the dead people. they had to carry our limp bodies off in front of the press and there were pictures on signs of the real thing everywhere around.

NONVIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

we blocked traffic and we stopped government in a few cases, and you know what?

we got AIDS funding and now people don't have to die from that disease

I know you think thats a horrible thing for me to have done but frankly I don't give a flying fuck.

 

[laikaNYC]

Still waiting to hear about those "radical beliefs" of mine but instead you're just rambling on with this minutiae

 

[rareboy]

^ Hardly radical.

But totally reactionary in the retrogressive meaning of the word.

 

[BostonPirate]

laika, that answer is all the proof anyone ever needed.

thanks for taking that walk with me.

now as to ms thomas's connection to the teabaggers....

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/14/nation/la-na-thomas14-2010mar14

But Thomas is no ordinary activist.

She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court.

In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative "core principles," she said.

The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources -- including corporations -- as allowed under campaign finance rules recently loosened by the Supreme Court.

so tell me laika, now that you have expounded so eloquently for a few posts on the evils of activism, tell me why ms Thomas is NOT as bad as me, and tell me why her associations and stated mission in this election , just two weeks away is not relevant to why she is making these bizarre statements twenty years later.

and NOW it matters to her? at this precise moment in time? And she is not using her husbands position on the bench to bait political gain in a dirty tricks way? even going down the path of racial dissention to carry that out?

 

[chrisrobin]

cold day in hell

When Thomas recuses himself from all the cases before them that his wife has her dirty little fingers in, it will be a concern.

Indeed.

I detect conflict of interest on Ms. Thomas's part.

 

[chrisrobin]

Anita Hill was nothing short of an opportunistic attention seeker who was willing to smear the name of a brilliant African American man just for publicity. She continues to live in shame to this day.

In your estimation, Anita Hill is a repulsive, disgusting individual but nevertheless,

1. Ms. Hill was testifying under oath. Your use of the word "smear" implies that she committed perjury.

2. I am amused by your notion that being a law professor at Brandeis University is "living in shame."

 

[jackoroe]

It does seem a bit odd that she's asking for an apology some 20 years later. In all fairness, Hill never made a criminal complaint or prevailed in any civil matter against Thomas.

If she's associated with the Tea Party group, that's fine. I'm just not seeing any connection to the election in her speaking out. Nor do I see any benefit to anybody in her doing so.

And folks, let's all address the topic and not each other, OK?

 

[jackoroe]

In your estimation, Anita Hill is a repulsive, disgusting individual but nevertheless,

1. Ms. Hill was testifying under oath. Your use of the word "smear" implies that she committed perjury.

2. I am amused by your notion that being a law professor at Brandeis University is "living in shame."

You are correct. But Justice Thomas also testified in his hearing. So shall we conclude that he perjured himself without so much as a benefit of a charge?

 

[MercuryJones]

Mrs. Teabag is feeling a little full of herself.

 

[BostonPirate]

voter supression, jack. this is happening in nevada as well. a conservative Org associated with the tea party hasa begun running ads in spanish telling hispanics to stay home and not vote.

This is just one more dirty trick to bring old woulds within the african american community back up to shave their rigid support for the president.

that is the gain she has in doing this, and since she specifically said she was going to be taking undisclosed funds during the election to accomplish vague goals in the november election, I see little other way to interpret any of this.

 

[jackoroe]

I'm not seeing how asking for an apology suppresses anybodies interest in voting. That's quite a stretch. I did see that commercial you referred to on MSNBC this morning, and I agreed with it up until the end.

 

[BostonPirate]

they are trying to dishearten the african american community. The pulitzer prize winning reporter Gene Robinson just released a book called....


Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America

“There was a time when there were agreed-upon “black leaders,” when there was a clear “black agenda,” when we could talk confidently about “the state of black America”—but not anymore.” —from Disintegration

Obama is trying so shore up african american support right now and has recently called for them to renew their energy for hsi presidency.

the call for Hill to apoligize pits one segment of the black community against the other, and that makes political hay through dirty tricks in my book.

 

[BostonPirate]

Anita Hill has responded.....

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/20/scotus.thomas.hill/index.html

"I certainly thought the call was inappropriate," Hill said in a statement to CNN issued by Brandeis. "I have no intention of apologizing because I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony."

it also reminds us of her contributions to american politics

"Although the hearings themselves had no legal significance, to many observers they symbolized a public referendum on sexual harassment and other gender inequities in late twentieth-century America," according to the broadcast museum. The incident has been credited with increasing public awareness regarding gender discrimination and motivating female voters in the 1992 elections, which saw a record 29 women elected to Congress.
"Many feminist groups refer to Anita Hill as the mother of a new wave of awareness of gender discrimination, particularly given the attacks on her credibility that she withstood from the white male senators," the museum said.
Harriett Woods, then-president of the National Women's Political Caucus, was quoted by the museum as saying, "Anita Hill focused attention on the fact that there were no women in that Senate panel making decisions about people's lives."

Anita Hill is a covenient target to stir up dissent in a wide variety of ways just prior to this ellection and Ms Thomas's stated personal agenda is to influence THIS election.