Malachi Clark

Malachi Clark

AP U.S. Government

Ms. Gordon

1. When Clarence Thomas speaks on the idea of a "high-tech lynching" which is a very ill-defined term. He says this for a few reason one being the fact that playing the race card to a all white committee will make them feel uncomfortable and more likely to favor him because they don't want to look like they are racist. The idea of a "high-tech lynching" suggests that the comments made by Anita Hill are equivalent to a group of people hanging him for absolutely no reason. "High-tech lynching" is when a person makes a statement or statements that's intention is to kill someones worth and professional standing. This clearly affected the committee's findings because they no longer wanted to find anything out about him because of the fear that they would be called "racist".

I believe that the committee listened to what Dr. Hill had to say almost solely with the purpose of knocking her down and using her words against her in the hearing of Clarence Thomas. In this situation the victim was questioned more than the actual possible perpetrated of a crime. This being the case when they got to Clarence Thomas' hearing the committee tried to destroy Dr. Hill.

2. Both cases were seen as an opportunity to defame political superpowers, in the case of Anita Hill the allegations against Clarence Thomas weren't based purely on speculation and more so on what she stated to be her own personal experience. In the communism case there were more than two hundred people's careers being put at risk due to rediculus claims while in Anita Hill's case the claims she made could have and probably were true.