I was in bed this morning and I had a WTF moment. I couldn’t believe my ears. I must have heard the news announcer wrong. No, I hadn’t. Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginny Thomas, had left a message on Anita Hill’s answering machine wanting an apology for her testimony of sexual harassment in her husband’s confirmation hearing. The audacity of her, after all the lies that were said about Anita Hill to discredit her testimony. Former Republican hit-man, David Brock, even wrote a book about Anita Hill, The Real Anita Hill, that he later confessed was a mix of fabrication and twisting of the facts; read as lies. In Blinded by the Right, the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, there is a whole chapter covering the smear campaign against Hill that was orchestrated by Republicans and the part that Brock played in it. Brock also described his realization of the wrongs that he had done to Anita Hill and in 1997 through a friend of hers delivered a written apology. Anita Hill never publicized the fact that Brock had apologized. She called Brock, left a message on his answering machine and Brock never had the guts to call her back.

So what is the motivation behind this seemingly extending of an olive branch to Anita Hill by Ginny Thomas? First off, she called when she knew that Hill would not be home at the time that she called. Second of all, did she really think that she would get an apology from Hill? If Hill was telling the truth, she would have no need to apologize and if she had lied, why would she admit that she had perjured herself. It was also Ginny Thomas that released this information to the press; it was not Hill. So was this a stunt to gain publicity during election time? It sure seems that way. And shame on you Mrs. Thomas for having the audacity to ask her for an apology, after all she has gone through to tell the truth. It should be you and your husband that should apologize to Anita Hill. But alas, you don’t even have the conscience and integrity that David Brock had, when he apologized to Anita Hill.