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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:02:53 -0500
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- Subject: Anita Hill
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- Ah...finally something caught my attention just by the subject post
- (something to the effect of "don't do it Jesse") I thought this would
- be something light and humorous but lo and behold it was a serious
- issue re: Anita Hill. Hard to believe its been a year since that
- whole scene. I don't know what the other postings on the topic
- indicated but I can see how it would be pretty difficult to bring
- charges of sexual harrassment against Thomas when he was the head
- honcho of EEOC. That would have been like telling Rodney King to
- dial 911. I can remember a similar situation when I was in grade
- school. My dear, responsible parents had prepared me to face the
- cold cruel reality of racism and instructed me on how I was to deal
- with the situation the day someone referred to me by the age old
- racial slur applied to Blacks and known to all...I was instructed to
- "tell the teacher" even those were fighting words I was supposed to
- "tell the teacher"...well sure enough the day came...I was in the
- second grade (geez, its disgusting now that I think back on it...
- such a painful memory apparently repressed) and guess whose mouth
- those words fell out of...YOU GOT IT...the teacher...I distinctly
- remember the confusion that set in for the rest of the day and
- the upset I experienced for days before my mother finally got it
- out of me exactly what had happened...and then there was really
- hell to pay because my parents are highly educated, proactive and
- in this case REACTIVE people...but that's another posting in
- itself...The year was 1963 but when the Hill-Thomas thing broke
- I remembered it as if it were yesterday.
-
- Sybil
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