WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Justice Thomas’s wife has called Ms. Hill, seeking an apology.
In a voice mail message left at 7:31 a.m. on Oct. 9, a Saturday, Virginia Thomas asked her husband’s former aide-turned-adversary to make amends. Ms. Hill played the recording, from her voice mail at Brandeis University, for The New York Times.
“Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” it said. “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”
Ms. Thomas went on: “So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. O.K., have a good day.”
Ms. Hill, in an interview, said she had kept the message for nearly a week trying to decide whether the caller really was Ms. Thomas or a prankster. Unsure, she said, she decided to turn it over to the Brandeis campus police with a request to convey it the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“I thought it was certainly inappropriate,” Ms. Hill said. “It came in at 7:30 a.m. on my office phone from somebody I didn’t know, and she is asking for an apology. It was not invited. There was no background for it.”
In a statement conveyed through a publicist, Ms. Thomas confirmed leaving the message, which she portrayed as a peacemaking gesture. She did not explain its timing.
“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago,” she said. “That offer still stands. I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”
In response to Ms. Thomas’s statement, Ms. Hill said that she had testified truthfully about her experiences with the future Justice Thomas and that she had nothing to apologize for.
This heffa here!
She actually had the GALL to call Ms. Hill TWENTY years later after this incident to demand an apology? Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit! Not only did Ginni had the nerve to call her, she called her at HER JOB!
At her JOB!
If you're looking for a sure fire way to get that azz beat, call a sista's job starting some mess. I wonder what lead to this phone call? A fight in which Anita's name was brought up was probably the reason. I mean really, talk about not letting it go!
What on earth possessed Ginni to call her and at 7:30 in the morning at that! Has she been thinking all these years that Anita was lying? Even though Anita took a polygraph test and PASSED.
I briefly remember Anita sitting before the panel testifying what happened and the insults she took to her character during this and she never broke a sweat. She was called a liar, said she was romantically obsessed with Clarence Thomas and was even called a lesbian! o.O During the testifying, it was ol Long dong silver who looked like he was ready to throw up at any minute.
How is she offering an olive branch by demanding an apology? That doesn't sound right. So if I beat somebody up, I can demand an apology disguised as an attempt to make peace. "Hey, maybe you should apologize for bleeding all over my hands while I was kicking your ass!"
Then again I'm not surprised. Ol Ginni is a known tea party supporter and we all know how mentally unhinged some of that fringe can be.
The Sit down hoe award for 2010 goes to Ginni Thomas. Let it go chick, just let it go!
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