The
Smithsonian Institution last month opened a wing devoted to
African-American history. African-Americans who leaned conservative were
excluded. No where was the exclusion of conservatives more revealing than
in the Anita Hill Exhibit . Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual
harassment during his Senate confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court. Hill got her own exhibit while Thomas was
censored right out.
While
sexual harassment charges might be used as the excuse to censor out a
conservative African-American, what about all of the others in history who were
censored out, too?
Here is an
an article Clarence Thomas Is Conspicuously Absent In The New Black
History Smithsonian by Kevin Daley
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