Sexual harassment times 2
2 major sexual harassment cases are in the media. Both involve high profile black men. One, Isiah Thomas and the Clarence Thomas. I find it interesting that Clarence Thomas would crawl out of his hole and say anything about his situation with Anita Hill. His arguments are shallow. What motivation would Anita Hill have to lie?
Anucha Brown Sanders accused Isiah Thomas of being a retard. No really. Calling her a “Bitch” then trying to explain his actions as it was a Black thing? If you read some of the stuff that came out of that trial it was sophomorish. Well, a jury just award Ms. Sanders $11 million. Hopefully, that will send a signal loud and clear to the NBA and other sports franchises around the country.
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From NYT: (op ed by Anita Hill)
ON Oct. 11, 1991, I testified about my experience as an employee of Clarence Thomas’s at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
I stand by my testimony.
Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” He may even be entitled to feel abused by the confirmation process that led to his appointment to the Supreme Court.
But I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.
In the portion of his book that addresses my role in the Senate hearings into his nomination, Justice Thomas offers a litany of unsubstantiated representations and outright smears that Republican senators made about me when I testified before the Judiciary Committee — that I was a “combative left-winger” who was “touchy” and prone to overreacting to “slights.” A number of independent authors have shown those attacks to be baseless. What’s more, their reports draw on the experiences of others who were familiar with Mr. Thomas’s behavior, and who came forward after the hearings. It’s no longer my word against his. (more…)
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From MSNBC.com:
In an end to a salacious three-week trial, a jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive who endured crude insults and unwanted advances from coach Isiah Thomas.
The jury of four women and three men found Thomas and Madison Square Garden sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders, but it decided only MSG and chairman James Dolan should pay for harassing and firing Browne Sanders from her $260,000-a-year job out of spite. (more…)
If we all carried around voice recorders.Then it wouldn’t be he said she said. We would have undisputed proof.
(Anucha Brown Sanders accused Isiah Thomas of being a retard. No really. Calling her a “Bitch” then trying to explain his actions as it was a Black thing? If you read some of the stuff that came out of that trial it was sophomorish. Well, a jury just award Ms. Sanders $11 million. Hopefully, that will send a signal loud and clear to the NBA and other sports franchises around the country.)
This should also send a message to the black community.
Isiah Thomas voiced what I notice to be greater and greater numbers of the rest of us have come to belive. Actions such as Isiah perpetrated or one trying to weasle out of their responsibilities/convictions by blaming other people. Is this a ‘Black Thing’?