Bush nominated Thomas to fill the spot left open by Justice Thurgood Marshall’s death.
Hill leans into the microphone and delivers her opening remarks regarding alleged sexual harassment by Thomas. In front of her, a group of men (all white), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sit huddled together. Hill is seated by herself at a rectangular table covered in a dark green tablecloth.
Camera shutters open and close in rapid succession as flash bulbs dance across Hill’s face. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Hill worked with Thomas for two years, first at the DOE and then with the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Civil Rights. Less than a year later Hill took a position working with Clarence Thomas in the U.S. Hill earned her Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1980. Anita Hill is a professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. The year is 1991 and a 35-year-old law professor settles into a leather backed swivel chair. West took part, with 20 other faculty from all three UW campuses, in “ 2020: The Course,” an online learning summation of a year sure to be remembered for historic upheaval and change. Professor Carolyn West from “ Escape the Cape” Ironically when I decided to hang up the superwoman cape I became more productive.” “I find the whole notion of being a superhero oppressive. West is that much more impressive because she chose to act armed only with a courage that wobbled at times but never faltered.
Superheroes have the benefit of being able to fall back on their powers, to rely on their superhuman abilities to defeat the villain. This doesn’t mean she’s not extraordinary and that she isn’t a hero.
Indeed, she has no super powers as defined by the genre. West doesn’t wear a cape and doesn’t possess laser vision or super speed. To my knowledge no one has an enchanted hammer or a shield made of indestructible metal to protect us against things like sexual harassment. A nihilistic evildoer in clown make up is wreaking havoc in your city? Warm up the bat signal.īut what about those emergencies that don’t include a spaceship, glowing orb or costumed villainy? Some days it feels like a thousand small fires have combined and now the entire world is ablaze. A purple-skinned rock enthusiast plans to wipe out half of all life in the universe with the snap of his massive fingers? Assemble the Avengers.
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