Anita Hill received a voicemail message from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Virginia. Hill received the message early in the morning on the answering machine at the campus office at Brandeis of Hill, who is a professor there.
The message directed her to say sorry for the sexual harassment allegations that she had made at Thomas’ confirmation hearings to get a place on the high court bench in 1991. This case had been reopened by Virginia, the wife of then Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 19 years after the confirmation hearings. However, Anita Hill had refused to apologize as she believes she has spoken the truth and so there is no scope of saying sorry to Clarence on this issue.
Virginia, a conservative power broker in Washington DC had attracted controversy for the anonymous funding of her campaign of supporting the right wing. She said it was inappropriate of Hill to charge Clarence of sexual harassment, it being a very aggressive and strong term instead of saying sexually harassing someone. So she asked Hill to apologize to her husband.
Initially, Hill thought the message to be a prank call from a drunken college goer. She submitted it to the authorities who investigated it for a week. Then it was confirmed by the Thomas’ spokesperson to the New York Times to be authentic. Hill said the content of the voice mail was very offensive and its delivery was classified as “inappropriate” by her.
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