- Anita Hill responds
But isn't this where we left off 16 years ago when Hill and now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had different recollections of their time together at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission? In his new book, Thomas calls Hill "my most traitorous adversary." On "60 Minutes," he said, "She was not the demure, religious, conservative person that they portrayed." But wait a second, didn't Hill go back to Oklahoma to teach at Oral Roberts University, which isn't exactly a hotbed of radicalism. "I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me," she said in a NYT op-ed this morning (it should sound very familiar):
In 1981, when Mr. Thomas approached me about working for him, I was an associate in good standing at a Washington law firm. In 1991, the partner in charge of associate development informed Mr. Thomas’s mentor, Senator John Danforth of Missouri, that any assertions to the contrary were untrue. Yet, Mr. Thomas insists that I was “asked to leave” the firm. It’s worth noting, too, that Mr. Thomas hired me not once, but twice while he was in the Reagan administration — first at the Department of Education and then at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. After two years of working directly for him, I left Washington and returned home to Oklahoma to begin my teaching career.
This morning on "Good Morning America" Robin Roberts asked why she didn't come forth sooner. "It is amazing how much we tolerate in the workplace," she said weakly. After all these years why answer with abstraction instead of specificity? Why not just say that I needed the job or the money or whatever? It's one of the mysteries of the story. By the way, Hill now teaches at Brandeis.
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