What Is Your Responsibility as a Lawyer?

You were the first tenured African American professor at University of Oklahoma College of Law. When Clarence Thomas was nominated for Supreme Court, you received a call about your experience working with him. You felt it was both a professional duty as a lawyer and an ethical responsibility to come forward in the most effective way possible. Your worry was, am I going to be heard? Will I have a fair opportunity to say what happened to me without being accused of doing something wrong myself by even coming forward?