If there’s one thing that leftists love doing, it’s trashing blacks that refuse to toe the Democratic Party line. The party that claims to be the defender of all things relating to minorities and disadvantaged is also the one least tolerant of the ones that don’t buy into their beliefs.
Countless black politicians and commentators have received racial hatred for being conservative, and for some reason, no matter how transparent the double standard, they still manage to get away with it. One of the most infamous cases of all concerns Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a stark defender of the Constitution and intellectual giant. During his appointment hearings in 1991, he was slandered by the Left in attempt to prevent his ascension to the Supreme Court. Amongst the mud-slingers was none other than the venerable Joe Biden, and recently he admitted that he should have done more for the accuser his party trotted out against Thomas.
As reported at the New York Post, while giving n interview with Teen Vogue of all places, Biden brought up the controversial Thomas hearings, saying that he “owed Anita Hill an apology” for the attacks she suffered after she accused Thomas of sexual harassment.
“I believed Anita Hill. I voted against Clarence Thomas,” Biden told Teen Vogue.
“And my one regret is that I wasn’t able to tone down the attacks on her by some of my Republican friends. I mean, they really went after her. As much as I tried to intervene, I did not have the power to gavel them out of order.” That’s rich, Joe, despite the stunning lack of evidence backing her claims, you were and are perfectly fine with the abuse and character assassination that Thomas has suffered.
Hill had accused Thomas of sexually harassing her while he was her boss at the EEOC and the civil rights division of the Department of Education. Republicans stood by Thomas, who was nominated and appointed to the Supreme Court under President George H.W. Bush.
“I wish I had been able to do more for Anita Hill,” Biden told the magazine. “I owe her an apology.” Joe apparently felt bad enough to apologize to Hill. However, she refused to accept his apology.
“I still don’t think it takes ownership of his role in what happened,” Hill told the Washington Post last month, recalling the grilling she took from an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee.
“And he also doesn’t understand that it wasn’t just that I felt it was not fair. It was that women were looking to the Senate Judiciary Committee and his leadership to really open the way to have these kinds of hearings. They should have been using best practices to show leadership on this issue on behalf of women’s equality. And they did just the opposite.”
It seems that the idea that we’re just supposed to believe any and all claims of a sexual nature brought against men was prevalent nearly thirty years ago as well. It’s a real shame no one seems to care about the impact these unprovable and unfalsifiable claims have on the accused. Sure, some are guilty, but pretending that every allegation is Gospel truth is beyond dangerous.
The standard is set, where we’re supposed to cast aside anyone that’s accused, is not sustainable in the long run, and in the end, will have the opposite effect the “women’s rights” brigade wants it to have on the issue of sexual harassment.
Source: New York Post