Anita Hill to crowd at YWCA Silicon Valley: "I will not retreat now."
Source: San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CLARA — Anita Hill, whose historic testimony against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas 27 years ago transformed the women’s movement, implored a record-setting crowd on Tuesday to keep up the fight despite being “jolted back to the past, a past we all believed we as a nation had grown beyond.”
“No one imagined that a Supreme Court nomination could return so many men and women to the pain of the past,” said Hill of the recent confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault. “We could not imagine that an eloquent and thoughtful and sincere Christine Blasey Ford would speak to a group of senators whose interest was not in getting the truth, but was with getting on with their own particular agenda.”
Some 1,900 people, mostly women, packed the annual YWCA Silicon Valley luncheon at the Santa Clara Convention Center and twice gave Hill standing ovations. A choral group from Notre Dame High School in San Jose wore T-shirts that read, “I believe Anita & Christine & You.”
Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/30/anita-hill-to-crowd-at-ywca-silicon-valley-i-will-not-retreat-now/
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