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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Sep 6, 2020, 08:34 PM Sep 2020

Anita Hill backs Biden, despite his 'mistakes' in handled her testimony during the Clearance Thomas

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Despite her objections to how then-Sen. Joe Biden's handled her testimony during Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings nearly 30 years ago, Anita Hill says she is voting for the Democratic nominee.

"Notwithstanding all of his limitations in the past, and the mistakes that he made in the past, notwithstanding those – at this point, between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, I think Joe Biden is the person who should be elected in November," Hill told CNN.

Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 when Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court bench by President George H.W. Bush. Hill came forward with allegations that Thomas had sexually harassed her when they worked together at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and her testimony drew national attention. Thomas denied the allegations and called the hearings a "high-tech lynching."

At the hearings, Hill was grilled on uncomfortable details about her allegations by members of the all-male, all-white committee, including Biden was asked her to share "the most embarrassing of all the incidents." Republican committee members questioned her credibility and accused her of "perjury."

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Anita Hill backs Biden, despite his 'mistakes' in handled her testimony during the Clearance Thomas (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
I've always thought that Anita Hill was/is a classy lady. I'm reminded of this Alexander Pope abqtommy Sep 2020 #1
That should settle everyone's hash. 3catwoman3 Sep 2020 #2

abqtommy

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1. I've always thought that Anita Hill was/is a classy lady. I'm reminded of this Alexander Pope
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 08:47 PM
Sep 2020

quote: "To err is human, to forgive is divine."

"In the poem An Essay on Criticism, Part II , 1711. Pope explains that, while anyone can make a mistake, we should aspire to do as God does, that is, show mercy and forgive sinners."

link: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/to-err-is-human.html

Than you, Anita, for showing us the way to our better natures...

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