Film Summary Of Anita Hill

Anita is a documentary that follows Anita Hill through the 1991 senate hearings against Clarence Thomas. The documentary opens with voicemail left by Thomas’ wife in 2010, nineteen years after the hearings, asking an apology for the “accusations” that Hill made of Thomas’ conduct all those years ago. But what exactly were the “accusations” laid against Thomas? It all started during the vetting process of supreme court justices Clarence Thomas. During the Vetting process of supreme court justices, the FBI run background checks and contact people the nominee have worked with in the past to get an idea in their character. Hill was contacted during this time because she had worked with Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The senate called asking about Hill
On Friday October 11th, the hearing of Thomas Clarence commenced. During the hearing the senate members berated Hill with a series of questions about the explicit details of the sexual harassment Hill endured, looking for any misstep to completely dismiss the case. Hill described the hearing as “awful” because she not only had to relive the situation, but Hill was also embarrassed to have to talk about such private things in front of basically the entire country. After Hill had fully testified she pulled her witnesses to support her claims and speak about her behavior during her time at EEOC. In the end, the accusations against Thomas were dropped because Thomas’ turned the hearing into a case about his victimization by the senate because he was an African American man. It was easier for the senate to negate the accusations than continue to fight them. Following the hearing Hill received a mixture of support and hate form random American citizens across the U.S. Hill described receiving death threats, bombs threats at the school she worked at, and many ill-word letters calling Hill a