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Clarence Thomas: 'I don't hire women law clerks'
Supreme Court justice says he only brings aboard 'best'
Posted: November 12, 2007
10:52 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Only 30 percent of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's law clerks are
women, but he says the relatively small representation of women in his
office has nothing to do with sexual harassment charges leveled against him
by Anita Hill during his confirmation hearings.
"I don't hire women law clerks," Thomas said. "I hire the best law clerks.
And it turns out that 30 percent of them happen to be women."
Hill almost cost Thomas his bid for the high court 16 years ago with her
accusation that he sexually harassed her on the job. She claimed her
co-worker used work situations to discuss sex.
"He spoke about acts what he had seen in pornographic films involving such
matters as women having sex with animals," Hill testified before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, "and films showing group sex or rapes scenes."
Thomas denied the charges and attributed the X-rated Democrat-led hearings
to a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks." He narrowly won confirmation by
a 52-48 Senate vote.
Now a veteran conservative member of the court, Thomas says he hires staff
based strictly on merit. He says hiring to achieve gender parity would not
be fair to his employees.
"If a woman graduates from law school and I say I'm going to hire her
because I need a woman, that seems to me dehumanizing, and the job would be
tainted," he said. "That's my attitude."
He says he learned to judge and treat people as individuals from his
grandfather, who raised him and his brother in the segregated South.
"My grandfather would say about whites, 'There's good'ns, there's bad'ns,'"
Thomas said. "And about blacks, 'There's good'ns, there's bad'ns.'"
"The difference was good and bad, not black and white," he added. "And
treating others and being treated ourselves as individuals was our goal."
Thomas made the remarks in a recent interview he granted in his chambers
with three seniors from Hillsdale College, a conservative private school in
Michigan which has paid Thomas to speak on campus in the past. The
interview, rare in both its candor and length, was published in "Imprimis,"
the college's newsletter to alumni.
Thomas recently released his long-planned memoir, "My Grandfather's Son,"
which he says he wrote without the help of a ghostwriter. Publisher
HarperCollins reportedly paid him a $1.5 million advance for the
manuscript - a sum that far exceeds his regular $203,000 annual salary on
the bench.
Thomas says he originally went into the seminary at 16, intending to be a
priest. He recounts how at a seminary reunion four years ago, a white
seminarian who was a year ahead of him in high school came up to him to
confide that he secretly looked up to him as a role model.
"Here he is, almost 60 years old, and he had tears in his eyes, and he said,
'Clarence, you taught me that someone who didn't look like me could be a
better seminarian, a better person, a better athlete than I could,'" Thomas
said. "And he said, 'From the time I left the seminary, I've always treated
people as individuals.'
"That was our goal back then," Thomas added.
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13 Nov 2007 03:40:25 AM |
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"I don't hire women law clerks," Thomas said. "I hire the best law clerks.
And it turns out that 30 percent of them happen to be women."
He is being politically correct. If he hired the best, 95% would be
male.
Hill almost cost Thomas his bid for the high court 16 years ago with her
accusation that he sexually harassed her on the job. She claimed her
And Thomas is justified in *never hiring women.
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13 Nov 2007 10:29:27 AM |
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Schizophrenic NetNut "J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> aka "Auric Hellman"
<adhellman@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
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Only 30 percent of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's law clerks are
women, but he says the relatively small representation of women in his
office has nothing to do with sexual harassment charges leveled against
him by Anita Hill during his confirmation hearings.
Keep working that Clarence Thomas troll, Auric!
"So much for the theory that Justice Thomas was just another "House
Negroe". Clarence Thomas is slowly becoming the voice and conscience of
main stream black America. Associate Justice Thomas will make an
outstanding Chief Justice."
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