Herman Cain speaking in front of a group of supporters in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was asked a question about Anita Hill. His immediate response, in a joking manner, was, “Is she going to endorse me?”
Anita Hill is the law professor who made headlines across the nation during the 1991 Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas after she made allegations Thomas had sexually harassed her when he was her boss at the EEOC and the Department of Education. The allegations were uncovered by the FBI but never brought ion the hearings until they were leaked.
Herman Cain has spent the entire week fending off allegations that he sexually harassed or sexually assaulted four, and possibly more, women. At Wednesday night’s GOP debate, the Republican audience booed when the topic was broached by a moderator.
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According to Hill, during her two years of employment as Thomas’s assistant, Thomas had asked her out socially many times, and after she refused, he used work situations to discuss sexual subjects. “He spoke about … such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes” she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described “his own sexual prowess” and the details of his anatomy. Hill also recounted an instance in which Thomas examined a can of Coke on his desk and asked, “Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?”
Hill agreed to take a polygraph test which found that her statements were true; Thomas declined the test. He made a vehement and complete denial, adding that he was being subjected to a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks” by white liberals who were seeking to block a black conservative from taking a seat on the Supreme Court. After extensive debate, the U.S. Senate confirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52–48; the narrowest margin since the 19th century.