Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Oct 15 2003
A Definite Maybe
Twelve years ago today Clarence Thomas was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. We know what he's been doing since then. But what became of Anita Hill, who accused Thomas of sexual harrassment in the workplace? A lot of people would say that she lost her battle. But Anita Hill is doing something really important now. She's been with Brandeis University since 1997--writing and teaching. Clarence Thomas has tremendous influence these days in his position. He is assured a place in history textbooks. But writers and teachers create subtle, unrelenting changes in society that work from the inside out. Clarence Thomas's postion is a relatively cloistered one in many ways. Anita Hill's life work is to reach young minds precisely when they are poised on the edge of choosing their own life work in society.
Did Professor Hill lose her case against Judge Thomas back in 1991? We may have to wait for a generation or two of her students to graduate before we know the real answer to that question.
posted at: 09:58 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
Twelve years ago today Clarence Thomas was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. We know what he's been doing since then. But what became of Anita Hill, who accused Thomas of sexual harrassment in the workplace? A lot of people would say that she lost her battle. But Anita Hill is doing something really important now. She's been with Brandeis University since 1997--writing and teaching. Clarence Thomas has tremendous influence these days in his position. He is assured a place in history textbooks. But writers and teachers create subtle, unrelenting changes in society that work from the inside out. Clarence Thomas's postion is a relatively cloistered one in many ways. Anita Hill's life work is to reach young minds precisely when they are poised on the edge of choosing their own life work in society.
Did Professor Hill lose her case against Judge Thomas back in 1991? We may have to wait for a generation or two of her students to graduate before we know the real answer to that question.
posted at: 09:58 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
