Anita Hill (speaks again.)

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Ms. Hill was originally put under the national spotlight during the Justice Thomas confirmation hearings.  While Justice Thomas has proven to be in the public eye quite a good justice, Ms. Hill has chosen to have a profile that is less public than she might otherwise have while taking academic jobs in U.S. Eastern schools.  I listened to a replay in California today of her recent public interview meeting with Robert Reich of the University of California and author of many books and articles geared to readers in the business world.  Ms. Hill has many revolutionary ideas despite her apparently more moderate background, training, and education.  She expressed in the interview, among other points, her ideas about equality and gender, and other rights issues with a kind of  "go out and get it" philosophy.  One should try to listen to these types of interviews as they give a perspective on the wisdom of our system in giving everyone a voice after some ups and downs, again for everybody.  Ms. Hill and Justice Thomas, in the view of people like me, were some time ago locked into a vicious mutual antagonism probably due the mistakes and missteps of other people around them who were climbing a career ladder, arrivistes, yahoos, and so forth.  That the Thomas hearings were as they were created issues for everyone in the related communities that make one want to question the morality of public hearings and the power of same to wreak havoc, probably just due to public curiosity and the need for a story, in the lives of those attending to them.