I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
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But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
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What ultimately kept me sane was that so much of what was going on was insane. What I had done was the honest, the right and the correct thing to do.
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In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
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If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
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I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
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