Clarence Thomas Tom Smith

You can watch the 60 Minutes interview of Justice Thomas here.

Maybe someday I will write I blog post about what it was like to be in Washington during the Thomas hearings.  I worked at one of the big old liberal law firms that represented Anita Hill, and I watched every minute of the hearings.  I can hardly describe what it was like; perhaps a little like a Jew in Atlanta might have felt watching the business with Leo Frank.  I can say the spectacle figured in my decision to leave DC.  Nobody died, but it was as profoundly ugly as if someone had.  It changed my view of a lot of things.  At least I learned most white Washington liberals wouldn't piss on a black man if he were on fire.

I used to think History vindicates the Truth.  I've outgrown that.  I don't expect Justice Thomas will ever be vindicated, though I am glad to see him trying to tell his side of the story.  Maybe someday, some journalist naive enough to think his job is about the truth will write the book, and Anita Hill can go the way of Alger Hiss.  But that is too much to expect.

Comments

[krm]

Apparently diversity is only valued as to skin tone or ethnic origin. Any diversity of thought is cause for all out, ends justify the means, attack

[dearieme]

Depends on whether anyone has the equivalent of the Venona decrypts.