By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 28 at 11:24 AM Former vice president Joe Biden is under increasing pressure from women’s rights groups, prominent African American leaders and other supporters of Anita Hill to acknowledge his personal responsibility for his handling of the 1991 confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Hill, who is black, faced accusatory and deeply skeptical questioning from the all-white, all-male Judiciary Committee when she testified that Thomas had repeatedly made unwanted sexual advances toward her as her supervisor at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thomas denied the allegations.
“He said at one point, ‘If you see this happening and you stand by, you’re a coward,’” Dittmar said. “But the biggest critique of his behavior in the hearings was that the men in the room were treating Anita Hill with a high level of disrespect and scrutiny that I think many feel was undeserved and unfair, and he didn’t step in in the way people would have hoped.”
Last fall’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, during which Christine Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her decades ago, brought renewed attention to the way the Senate Judiciary Committee handles such accusations. “We’re not here to dictate how an apology works,” she said. “What we’re most concerned about is, how do we make sure things like that don’t happen again?”
If nothing else,the”Me oo” movement showed that men,especially men in power,are sexual predators who,until recently,escaped accountability. Not all men,certainly.But if there’s a woman over 45 who wasn’t a predator’s target at some time in her life,she was extraordinarily lucky.
JoeBiden is FullO'Shit why isnT th MSM reportG that this known plagiarist from law school and 1988 has already stolen BernieSanders 'existential crisis' and KamalaHarris 'inflection point'. his AccidentallyOnPurpose announcement on March16 didnT fool anyone, staceyabrams ?!
It's a big problem for me, especially the way he worded it.
The treatment of Anita Hill at the hearing, and in the press, silenced countless other women suffering sexual harassment. It made life for all women harder.
Knowing when to leave the stage would show great wisdom and grace. Thank you for your service, Joe.
How white is Uncle Joe?
No purity tests! Support who you want, but vote for whoever goes against Trump.
Compared to realDonaldTrump he’s a goddamn saint. hypocrisy
She's Not going anywhere....
Gonna put ya back in chaaaaaaains! No seriously though, white boy’s oh-TAY!!
We are 99 and 44 hundred percent there If you don't make any more dumb moves and that was one of them.
Inside war among the Dems candidates while most Americans enjoy the good economy atmosphere. 🤪🤪🤪
It's always problematic when someone on the left upholds the presumption of innocence.
Anita Hills RACIST outrage that a Black Judge with a White Wife was selected, over one with a Traditional family, is still apparent. Politically Correct, does not change FACT. Hill wanted to be the Wife of a Supreme Court Judge and was rebuffed by a White Woman, creating RAGE.
What was Biden's part in this soft coup? What did he know and when did he know it?
Don't run Joe.
Biden needs to stay home.
Did he grab her 🐱? Then apples to grenades.🙄
He will go on an apology tour.
A bit of revisionist history he's presenting of himself, isn't he?
Yes, well it is too late too be effective. The whole thing was shameful, but many American males treat women as nearly nothing, save when it serves them. PERNICIOUS PATRIARCHY NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED.
No it doesn’t.Many folk were tripping back then .Look at the list of fools!
Just run Klobuchar! Castro VP
Anita Hill has suffered at the hands of white men decisions,like millions of women before her. She just happened to be famous & known.(like Stormy Daniels and monica Lewinsky,etc). , The rest of women fighting against the abuse of men, have gone un-noticed & suffered in silence
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Joe Biden treated Anuta Hill like a vmxjgxjgxngxnvx!!
If you don't learn from your mistakes, you cannot be successful. To all of you who say they have never made a mistake I say, trumpies, sit down! I'm with Joe!!!
No one wants Joe Biden to run.
Twist: Hill joins Biden on the ticket.
If you are running on the 1980s, and 1990s, you are losing.
Biden is the ONLY VIABLE candidate to defeat trump.