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African American Women
In Defense of Ourselves
As women of African descent, we are deeply troubled by the recent nomination,
confirmation and seating of Clarence Thomas as an Associate Justice of the U S
Supreme Court. We know that the presence of Clarence Thomas on the Court will be
continually used to divert attention from historic struggles for social justice through
suggestions that the presence of a Black man on the Supreme Court constitutes an
assurance that the rights of African Americans will be protected. Clarence Thomas'
public record is ample evidence this will not be true. Further, the consolidation of a
conservative majority on the Supreme Court seriously endangers the rights of aJl
women, poor and working class people and the elderly. The seating of Clarence
Thomas is an affront not only to African American women and men, but to all people
concerned with social justice.
We are particularly outraged by the racist and sexist treatment of Professor Anita
Hill, an African American woman who was maligned and castigated for daring to
speak publicly of her own experience of sexual abuse. The malicious defamation of
Professor Hill insulted all women of African descent and sent a dangerous message
to any woman who might contemplate a sexual harassment complaint.
We speak here because we recognize that the media ,»rc now portraying the Black
community as prepared to tolerate both the dismantling of affirmative action and the
evil of sexual harassment in order to have any Black man on the Supreme Court. Wc
want to make clear that the media have ignored or distorted many African American
voices. We will not be silenced.
Many have eironeously portrayed the allegations against Clarence Thomas as an
issue of either gender or race. As women of African descent, we understand sexual
harassment as both. We further understand that Clarence Thomas outrageously
manipulated the legacy of lynching in order to shelter himself from Anita Hill's
allegations. To deflect attention away from the reality of sexual abuse in African
American women's lives, he trivialized and misrepresented this painful pan of
African American people's history. This country, which has a long legacy of racism
and sexism, has never taken the sexual abuse of Black women seriously. Throughout
U.S. history Black women have been sexually stereotyped as immoral, insatiable,
perverse; the initiators in all sexual contacts-abusive or otherwise. The common
assumption in legal proceedings as well as in the larger society has been that Black
women cannot be raped or otherwise sexually abused. As Anita Hill's experience
demonstrates, Black women who speak of these matters are not likely to be believed.
In 1991, we cannot tolerate this type of dismissal of any one Black woman's
experience or this attack upon our collective character without protest, outrage, and
resistance.
As women of African descent, we express our vehement opposition to the policies
represented by the placement of Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court. The Bush
administration, having obstructed the passage of civil rights legislation, impeded the
extension of unemployment compensation, cut student aid and dismantled social
welfare programs, has continually demonstrated that it is not operating in our best
interests. Nor is this appointee. We pledge ourselves to continue to speak out in
defense of one another, in defense of the African American community and against
those who are hostile to social justice no matter what color they are. Noone will speak
for us but ourselves.
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