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Becoming Justice Thomas | 4. A National Disgrace

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The Lynching of Senator Thomas Jefferson

The way Thomas said it, Anita Hill seemed almost incidental. That night, he turned his anger toward the proceedings themselves. This is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks, who in any way, dain to think for themselves and have different ideas. And it is a message that unless you cow-town to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.

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