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The story of young, brilliant African-American Anita Hill who accuses the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwan | dG1fM3JUS0tHMjhreXM
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00:00Who here knows about Anita Hill?
00:19The sexual harassment storm around Clarence Thomas is intensifying.
00:23I trust that the Senate will confirm this able man promptly.
00:28I knew what I had to do.
00:30I'm going to tell what happened to me.
00:31She had no idea that she was walking into the political lion's den.
00:37You swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?
00:40I do.
00:41I can only imagine how difficult it must have been with her testifying.
00:45It was unusual in how graphic the details were.
00:48He measured his penis in terms of length.
00:52And strange.
00:53The name that was referred to was Long Dong Silver.
00:57I think they were trying to trip her up.
00:59I was on trial.
01:02I've got statements from people that know her saying watch out for this woman.
01:06The issue became my character.
01:08It didn't occur to her that an opposition campaign would be waged.
01:12Bomb threats to my house, sexual violence.
01:15Why would someone make up this story?
01:17This wasn't about the truth. They were humiliating her.
01:20This earring, this is a high tech lynching for uppity black.
01:24They didn't want to appear to be going after a black man who said I didn't do it.
01:28These conversations, did he say I have great physical capability and attributes?
01:34Or was he more graphic?
01:35He was much more graphic.
01:37There were a lot of facts that they didn't want the public to know.
01:41This is an important issue and the dialogue should not stop here.
01:45To any victim of sexual harassment, the message is nobody's going to take you seriously.
01:51Not even the United States Senate.
01:54You are not drawing a conclusion that Judge Thomas sexually harassed you.
02:00Yes I am drawing that conclusion.
02:02So then I don't understand.
02:07Well let me try to explain again.