That Coke Can Is Back...Maureen Dowd

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/opinion/sunday/that-coke-can-is-back.html?ref=opinion

That Coke Can Is Back


Maureen Dowd FEB. 27, 2016

HOLLYWOOD — THEY were dramas that drilled into the most sensitive parts of the national psyche, searing and dividing us with lurid sexual images and racial grievances as old as the nation.

They both started out as narratives about the mistreatment of women but were swiftly twisted into parables about the mistreatment of black men.

Anita Hill went to the Senate in 1991 to testify about creepy sexual overtures by her former boss, Clarence Thomas, but Thomas made it to the Supreme Court by cowing the Democratic senators who were supposed to protect Hill. Thomas claimed that he, not she, was the victim. The senators were stunned and silenced when Thomas accused them of a “high-tech lynching.”

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I am sure there is a point to this convoluted article but beats me what it is.

[mountaineer]

I am sure there is a point to this convoluted article but beats me what it is.

That may be said of just about everything she writes.