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emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
23. It's Clarence Thomas you should hold responsible for Clarence Thomas's behavior Biden managed to
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 10:04 PM
Jun 2019

get Hill a hearing against Republican resistance, voted against Thomas, twice, and was not among the members who vocally discredited her during the hearings. Biden has been on record as always championing her credibility, which yes, given her complaints fell 1O years later and that she had maintained a relationship of sorts with Thomas, were easy to discount.
Simpson, Grassley, Specter, Heflin were the ones she should have been speaking out against next to Thomas who cynically misappropriated painful Black history to his own case when he called the hearings a “high tech lynching,”thereby shutting down the white male Dems on the committee except for Joe who got in some jabs.
Edward Kennedy was all but not present.
Neatly, Republicans had handed a kind of Sophie’s choice to Dems in nominating Thomas, a hyper conservative, to fill Thurgood Marshall’s seat. Thomas became only the second Black person in
history to go on to the Supreme Court.
At the time, this hearing and its outcome was never a case of Biden vs. Hill, but deconstruction has
afforded absolute freedom with the truth to anti-Biden folks.
Get a transcript or see what you can of the hearings on YouTube. I watched them in the context of the times. No, Hill did not have a great many black people in her corner. Thomas had many more.
Biden comes away far better than other Dems and miles from the sick stuff Heflin threw Hill’s way.
Biden was not her defense attorney. Her defense of herself, her own credibility, she understood out the gate would be required. She was not very effective, which is understandable.
What is not is why she blames Biden more than those who harassed and humiliated her.

fuck him Skittles Jun 2019 #1
beat me to it... pangaia Jun 2019 #26
this has been very much overlooked by people commenting on Anita Hill Skittles Jun 2019 #34
Took the words right out of my mouth Hekate Jun 2019 #38
Pretty judgmental... JaneQPublic Jun 2019 #2
he is such a bigot Demovictory9 Jun 2019 #3
He and Trump need to gorge themselves on as much fried food Maru Kitteh Jun 2019 #4
There are folks who would like to overturn his inter-racial marriage malaise Jun 2019 #5
Another reason why Democrats must expand the court. dalton99a Jun 2019 #6
And . . . Does he think interracial marriages should be revoked as well??? MagickMuffin Jun 2019 #7
Interesting how someone who was once a victim of marriage discrimination now smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #8
Is anybody surprised by this? When someone shows you who they are, believe them Va Lefty Jun 2019 #9
This, from a man whose marriage would not have been legal not all that long ago PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #10
Right after Loving v. Virgina Clarence. bitterross Jun 2019 #11
He should have to recuse himself Buckeyeblue Jun 2019 #12
They got caught trying to get away with not paying taxes on some of her income. LuvNewcastle Jun 2019 #45
Right. And there is some sort of ethics form that he left the income off of Buckeyeblue Jun 2019 #46
Clarence Thomas is the one thing I will hold against Joe Biden forever...but I will vote for sarabelle Jun 2019 #13
It's Clarence Thomas you should hold responsible for Clarence Thomas's behavior Biden managed to emmaverybo Jun 2019 #23
whataboutism Skittles Jun 2019 #24
No actually. They were the true villains, not Biden. And yes, to this day the process is flawed. emmaverybo Jun 2019 #25
Very well said Emma ... I'm with you on this one ... mr_lebowski Jun 2019 #35
"Political minefield" for the Dems. YOU said it right! Bottom line, Biden was against Thomas, as emmaverybo Jun 2019 #36
Mostly agree. Although he could have done more, Hortensis Jun 2019 #41
Biden voted against Thomas twice. He could have subpoenaed the reluctant witness and treated her emmaverybo Jun 2019 #44
Hello black man with white wife! Loving v. Virginia? Asshole. CurtEastPoint Jun 2019 #14
Climbing up the civil rights and affirmative action ladder Zambero Jun 2019 #16
Maybe his next desent will highlight the difference between Oberfell and Loving. CincyDem Jun 2019 #15
He speaks? demosincebirth Jun 2019 #17
See how he feels wehn they go after BRown VS Board of Education. Amaryllis Jun 2019 #18
I would not defend Thomas, J. He is usually beyond a reasonable defense. TomSlick Jun 2019 #19
He's an activist judge SHRED Jun 2019 #20
This. No objectivity, no genuine respect for democracy. JudyM Jun 2019 #47
Joe Biden says LGBT+ rights will be his number one priority if he wins 2020 election Cha Jun 2019 #21
Next, maybe he'll overturn Loving v. Virginia, so the State can roust him and Ginny out of their bed StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #22
Slappy is just trying to somehow be relevant now in COLGATE4 Jun 2019 #27
Irony is dead Freethinker65 Jun 2019 #28
So he'll divorce his wife? sakabatou Jun 2019 #29
No. TruckFump Jun 2019 #31
Geeeeeeeeeeez! TruckFump Jun 2019 #30
Clarence can kiss my pasty-white bisexual ass. n/t TygrBright Jun 2019 #32
That is a classic. emmaverybo Jun 2019 #37
Perhaps start with Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific or Citizens United. MarcA Jun 2019 #33
Something is wrong with that guy. Kid Berwyn Jun 2019 #39
he's a fucking freak and orleans Jun 2019 #40
Fuck this homophobic piece of shit. The day the US invalidates Celerity Jun 2019 #42
I wonder if... Mike Nelson Jun 2019 #43
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