Biden’s Ridiculous Anita Hill Apology Tour
By Jonathan S. Tobin
March 28, 2019 4:50 PM
Remorse for doing his job in 1991 is neither necessary nor likely to get him off the hook for being an old white male politician.
After 27 years, Anita Hill is still waiting for a personal apology from Joe Biden. Apparently, the former vice president has yet to reach out for a private tête-à -tête with the law professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings. But while Biden hasn’t been able to pick up the phone to talk to her about events from the fall of 1991, he understands that his connection to the Thomas hearings is a distinct liability in the 2020 Democratic presidential race.
That’s why he used an event hosted by his personal foundation, the Biden Courage Awards — honoring students who have fought sexual violence on college campuses — to send a very public apology to Hill. In his speech at the awards ceremony held in New York, the man who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee during the dramatic confrontation between Hill and Thomas, denounced the proceedings over which he presided as a vestige of “white man’s culture†that had to change.
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