Under the category of “What Was She Thinking?” — Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, would be justified in kicking herself and her husband about right now. It was a foolish move indeed on her part to call her husband’s sexual harrassment accuser Anita Hill earlier this week and leave a message that she still wanted an apology from Hill after nearly 20 years. (Oh, wouldn’t you have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Hill listened to THAT message.)
Now, Clarence Thomas’ former lover of five years (1981-1986), a retired judge herself, has come forward with information that corroborates a lot of what Hill testified were Thomas’ patterns of sexual harassment. Testimony that has dogged Hill since and brought skepticism to her honesty and sanity.
Lillian McEwan has never publicly spoken about her sexual relationship with Justice Thomas even though she’s been approached by reporters over the last two decades since the hearings in 1991. She and Thomas dated when both were single. Vice President Joe Biden, leading the 1991 Senate investigation into the Hill accusations at the time, never asked her to testify as he was focusing only on women with whom Thomas had a professional relationship.
McEwen has maintained good relations with Thomas over the years. Now retired from being an administrative judge and law professor, she’s shopping her memoir. When Virgina Thomas made her monstrous gaffe of asking for an apology, it got McEwen to thinking and she decided to come out about Thomas in hopes it will help her land a publisher. And, we know said publisher is going to want her to totally rewrite that memoir. The manuscript does, however, talk in detail about her Katie-bar-the-door sex life with Thomas.
In a Washington Post story, McEwen states that when watching the Anita Hill testimony that the scenarios she talked about to all too familiar to her. “He was always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they could be potential partners,” McEwen said matter-of-factly. “It was a hobby of his.” She adds, “He was obsessed with porn. He would talk about what he had seen in magazines and films, if there was something worth noting.” She states that he was also obsessed with large breasts and that Thomas even told her about an incident in which he asked one of his females colleagues what size her breasts were.
At the time of the hearings, Clarence Thomas called the investigation a “high-class lynching.” The fact that he was confirmed to the Supreme Court is
what I call another result of blinded political correctness of lawmakers too gun-shy to be the ones too vote down a black nominee for Thurgood Marshall’s seat on the bench.
So one day after the Juan Williams firing debacle from NPR, another one of our sad results of political correctness rears its ugly head again. Political correctness has got us by the throat and as Juan Williams says “distorts reality.”
Anita Hill surely knew that eventually the truth would set her free. Welcome to freedom Ms. Hill.
Cracker Jax 