I've not paid much attention to Herman Cain, on the grounds that he's not going to be the GOP nominee anyway, so why waste your time?--and wouldn't now either, except that he hauled out Clarence Thomas' "high tech lynching" line in order to defend himself on sexual harrassment.
Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harrassment during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his appointment to the Supreme Court. Set back on his heels, he struck back by accusing the media and the Committee of conducting a "high tech lynching for uppity blacks."
It was never true. He wasn't being lynched. He was being accused of using his position in order to sexually harrass someone. The allegations were made in an FBI interview with one of his former assistants, Anita Hill, who was then a law professor at Oklahoma Uiversity. Four other witnesses were available to support Hill's subsequent testimony to the committee, but were never called.
Thomas got away with it. He, in effect, played the race card and his opposition was reduced to silence. If any one of the Committee had had the gumption to call Thomas on his accusation--they could have said, for example, "This is not a lynching. This is a hearing on your fitness for the Supreme Court, which has been called into questioned by the possibility that you have committed a serious crime"--he might well not have been confirmed.
Cain probably figures the line worked for Thomas, and maybe it will work for me. Maybe it will.
That difference continued as my wife Yukari Watanabe Scott and I checked in and explored the property. It seemed so perfect that we had to find out why. So we met with Ana Maria Nordgren and Oliver Geldner to learn more.
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