>>>>>I should also mention that I thought Anita Hill was far more believable than Thomas.
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>>>>Me too.
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>>>>There is a strange thing with women in the U.S. though. Most often, a woman's greatest critics are other women.
>>>
>>>Such is the world. We expect women to bring change, to bring a different way of thinking and doing things in politics (and elsewhere). But for a woman to climb up the ladder, she first has to master the masculine art of climbing... and lose much of her feminine mind along the way, replacing it with climber's skills. Women in the audience are the first to notice what's wrong.
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>>>Eventually they may build sufficient critical mass to change the rules of the game so even normal people can be in politics. I do hope so, or else entropy.
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>>Women movement is no different when it comes to being with their own kind. Women's movement is for liberal women only. If your outside of their fense, they have no mercy. Same with blacks. If you're black and run with the Republican crowd, you're an uncle tom or worse.
>
>Colin Powell is an 'uncle tom?'

According to some...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/12/183155/559
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/harrBy.htm
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-2-2003-42448.asp

Don't forget "house slave" and "Aunt Jemimia"...
http://www.10news.com/news/3932222/detail.html
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20579/

Now if Powell endorses Obama I'm sure he'll be welcomed back into the fold after breaking his chains to "Massah Bush".