The new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture barely mentions hard-line conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas but has plenty of space for the woman who accused him of sexual harassment at his 1991 Senate confirmation, Anita Hill. The disparagement of Thomas is particularly egregious because October is the 25th anniversary of Thomas sitting on the court.
Thomas, only the second black person to sit on the court, (after Justice Thurgood Marshall), has a storied history; he grew up dirt-poor in segregated deep south of coastal Georgia and was mocked by other blacks for his Geechee heritage. Sent to live with his grandparents at age seven, his grandfather inculcated values of hard work and , perseverance, telling Thomas, “Old Man Can’t is dead. I helped bury him.”
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