Anita Strikes Back!

Reading Paul Schindler's blog today I discovered that Anita Hill is responding to the accusations that appear in Justice Clarence Thomas's new autobiographical memoir screed My Grandfather's Son. Schindler is the editor of Gay City News, a LGBT newspaper in New York City. On his blog he links to an op-ed published by Hill, who is now a Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies at Brandeis University, called "The Smear This Time." I agree with Schindler that by choosing this title Anita Hill (Or the Times' editors?) is referring to how she feels she was mistreated by the media during the 1991 Hill-Thomas hearings when Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush. It's Mad Professah's understanding that people who submit op-eds don't have control over what headline is put over their work when it appears in print--but maybe that's not true at the Gay City News or the New York Times.

Anyway, it's good to see Anita back in the news, and still standing by her testimony and showing why Clarence Thomas should not be on the U.S. Supreme Court.