Reply #25: You should also remember what Clarence Thomas said that pretty much caused all on the committee to

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suddenly start being afraid.

C.T. brought up racism as an issue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101201883.html

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With his Supreme Court nomination on the line in 1991 over the sexual harassment charges made by Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas famously played the highest race card in the deck of American history: the lynching of black men for real and imagined sexual offenses.

" As far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves."

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He said this in front of an old, white, male (both Democrats and Republicans) committee, with most of America and the world watching.

They couldn't respond and decided to end the hearings before outright charges of racism were leveled.