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"The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" Winston-Salem Chronicle By SHERIDAN HILL Chronide Staff Writer : Hearings a cruel joke ?v.-.v SsMs: ADER'S POLL THE THOMAS CONFIRMATION HEARINGS LOCAL FEELINGS PARALLEL NATION Ch rondo read an shara opinion* similar to tha rast of tha not on, according to our poll. 0< tha 134 paopia survayad. 52 pareant did not baliava Anita Hilt was saxually harassad by Claranca Thomas Nationally. 58 parcant did not baliava Anita HHt was saxualty ha/assad by Claranc* Thomas Chronic!* raadars wara mora indinad to support Thomas' i ! confirmation, with 60 parcant agraaing that ha is worthy of bamg a Suprama Court judga. wMa natonaHy only 45 parcant agraad In national survayi, thara was a tittla ditfaranca in rasponsi I batwaan blacks and whitas or man and woman. Whda tha sa*ual harassmant issua hit a raw narva in tha country, it aiao showad that i woman do not nacassarrty sida with woman just bacpusa thay ara i woman. Tha most obvious diffarancas in opinion wara batwaan political parti as, with Republican mora indinad to baliava Judga Thomas than Damocrats S. Havo you or anyoite you know, ever felt sexually haranvcd M work? 69% When m man tolls o &ox Joke, do you think wonwt ard aomotlmeu uncomfortable but do not say *0? 69% : "My feelings are that the proceedings were a circus, " muses Angela Carmon, assistant city attorney. "I hate that it reached the point it did. The end result is they don't know any more thai) they knew in the beginning." In a 52-48 vote, the Senate confirmed Judge Clarence Thomas as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Eleven Democrats joined 41 Republicans in the vote, which was heavily lob bied from President Bush through telephone calls and telegrams. Democrat Terry Sanford opposed the nomination, and Republican Jesse Helms favored it. Democrats have not had a nominee to the Supreme Court in 24 years. Allegations of sexual harassment from Judge Thomas' former co-worker, Professor Anita Hill, and the ensuing televised hearings dredged up a legacy of racial brutality and sexual harassment. Three days of dramatic, credible tes .timony from both sides brought to the forefront the worst kind of stereotypes about black men and disturbed the nation's conscience. HARASSMENT CHARGES Professor Hill's charges were backed up by four witnesses who said that she had told them of harassment by her boss. A former Winston Salem Chronicle employee, Angela Wright, also testified through a telephoned statement. riScTlhlftlfie Ciaiencf Thomas that 1 know is quite capabte of doing just what Anita Hill alleges," Wright said. The committee also released an interview with Rose L. Jourdain, a speechwriter for ?? Thomas from 1983 to 1985 and a friend of Wright's, who said Wright told her at the time of her increasing uncase at Thomas' comments. She said Wright told her Thomas made comments about "her figure, her body, her breasts, her legs-" Wright was director of public affairs for the Please see page A2 Anita Hill gets a hug from her moth er, Erma, after making opening com ments to the Senate last Friday. Sexual harassment spotlighted By SHERIDAN HILL Chronicle Staff Writer Whether she is a liar or a victim, unbalanced or lion-hearted, Anita Hill has succeeded in bringing to the nation's eyes the issue of sexual harassment This week, women of all ages and back being sexually harassed at work. "We used to take bets on how long he would be in the office before he men tioned sex," said one woman, speaking of her supervisor. "It was usually about five minutes." "My phone is coming off the hook, says Marian Ackerman, executive direc tor for the local Council on the Status of Women. "We've had more calls in the past week than we've had in a year. In 1981, the council conducted a needs assessment in Forsyth County to determine the incidence of sexual harass ment. Hour long interviews were con ducted face-to-face with 1,000 women, 45% of whom attended that they had experienced sexual hara job from their supervisor. "There seems to be a repressed out rage," said Ackerman, "and now that someone stood up and said something, other women are standing up and saying, this happened to me. Sexual harassment does happen with regularity in Winston Salem." Ackerman notes that Anita Hill fits the classic pattern of a victim of sexual abuse, despite her Yale law school train ing. "Typically, the woman feels demor alized and does not tell anyone," said Ackerman. Dr. Deborah Winfrey, associate pro fessor and director of institutional effec tiveness at Winston-Salem State Univer sity, points out that we, as a society, tend to blame victims. "How do you proVe someone said something dirty to you? They don't usu ally say it in front of other people. It becomes t^er word against his. We don't know who' is right or wrong, but we as groups don't identify with the victim. It Please see page A6 Teachers try to bring black history into focus , By JESSICA SAUNDERS Associated Press Writer The assignment was to read the autobiography of Malcolm X, and Willis Jackson was worried about his gifted students' reaction. Jackson, a history teacher at Ram sey High School in Birmingham, said some of his white students told him "their parents were asking why they had to read this*". ~ ~ It was not an unusual reaction. About 40 percent of the students in the gifted program are black and Jackson says the white students are "very con scious*4 of affirmative qction. "It has come out of the scoring on tests," including how some black stu dents are able to win full college schol arships despite having lower test scores than some white classmates, he said. In addition to ^alcolm X, Jackson's students study Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Dis obedience." His students use a 42-chap ter college textbook "that does a pretty good job of deahog with, the. United States as a nation of immigrants," Jack son said. , ? ^ . - "I try in all courses to make sure there's a real emphasis on diversity," he said. In teaching black history, "I have yet to have a black parent object to the (reading assignments), saying I didn't do this enough. I have yet to have a white parent say I'm doing it too much, although some of the white students say that." Jacqueline Matte, who teaches post World War II Alabama history at pre dominantly white Mountain Brook Junior High School, uses speakers, videotapes ~a"nd writing assignments to make black history come alive in her classroom. "We don't just deal with Martin Luther King," she said. Matte's students keep civil rights journals in which they respond to videos such as "Eyes on the Prize" and "King: Montgomery to Memphis." They inter view their parents about their recollec tions of desegregation and also interview a black person at least a generation older than themselves. ? . ? Speakers have included Jefferson County Sheriff Mel Bailey, who is white, and a black teacher, who described scg^ rcgation for the mostly white class. Among 220 students in a reccnt 9th gradevonc was black. "Ttrcy feet strodced- by srrmr oih the materials," Matte said. "They knew noth ing of the separate facilities. They knew nothing about people going to that Please see page A2 f OR HOMF fJF I IVf RY CAI I ? /? Wi?4 Angela Wright Anita Hill Clarence Thomas Confronting; As many as 90% of women will w|p| away from a dirty joke they find offensive, according to studies from the Council on the Status of Women. In the informal Chronicle poll conducted this week, 69% of respondents said they did not know anyone who had ever been se*;uaiiy -SiSi^swd- Imt- 1 cent agreed that whetfttten |elt dirty joJcfpp women are offended but do not say so. HOWS A MAN TO KNOW? Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act provides that workers cannot be treated differ ently because of race,,gcx, cotor, religion, or J? irationai origin . But like racism, sexual -effecftvti harassment can be difficult to determine. Perhaps women and men don't urider stand each other as well as they thought. How's a man to know if he's sexually harass ment responsibility of defining ?iaf makes them uncomfortable. i \ | - 1 ; *-?: m m ''Svf ?** m' Friday morning I don't mind telling yon that this past Friday morning, I cried hard teirs. It was the only fMagU ?ij i ,11, to be. I wanted to be akmeaolcouldfeel the pain of a brother and a sister who had somehow found themselves pitted against each other in the mouth of the lion's 4>n? V- !>;?i % Perhaps ft was fee overwhelming symbolism ^ : |?t many of us associate with that dayofth* , week that led me to think of die Bible verse that ^SpttiksoTtfiere being no redemption without the J shedding of blood. ' *? ??: Perhaps it was my recalidfthe childhood | images of die pain and suffering associated with { v my own understandinfrtny own soul's saEvadoB^ ? die miracle and the tragedy of Good Friday ? that made me hurt so much. 3pas prepared for the blood that would flow that Friday morning but I was not prepared for the pain -- for the anguish ? .Last Friday morning, I heard black fbQa an | around this world mourning as if the only two children they ever had werebeing snatched away from dieir very arms while they sat there, power less todo anything about it . Wc mourned not just for Judge Thomas and Prof. Anita Hill but we mourned for all that we ever knew about who we are and where we came ~ fin mm IrniTMfifif fitft -terrift U*?t frrriTi urn