| David A. Rochefort, Roger W. Cobb - 1994 - 232 sidor
...my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in anyway deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to...committee of the US Senate rather than hung from a tree. (Reuters 1991: 14) As Thomas returned for six hours of grilling by the committee on October 12,... | |
| Abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - 1995 - 512 sidor
...have different ideas, and it is a message that, unless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what wilt happen to you, you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured...committee of the US Senate, rather than hung from a tree. In answering a question posed by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah concerning stereotypes,... | |
| Geneva Smitherman - 1995 - 284 sidor
...who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. . . . You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the US Senate, rather than hung from a tree. I am struck by many things this weekend, but for me, and perhaps many other people, this is the... | |
| Daniel Dervin - 1996 - 372 sidor
...accompanied by a reversal in which the alleged perpetrator became the newly designated victim: "[I] will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the US Senate." 24 Bizarre as this sounds, the reversal-fantasy is essential because it reinforces the means by which... | |
| Sanford Schram, Philip T. Neisser - 1997 - 284 sidor
...1994). For him, the process had become "a high-tech lynching for uppity-blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to...committee of the US Senate, rather than hung from a tree" (US Senate Judiciary Committee, 1991: 157-58). Despite the dubious historical accuracy of the... | |
| Jane Flax - 1999 - 198 sidor
...themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and that unless you kow-tow to an older order, this is what will happen to you, you will be...committee of the US Senate, rather than hung from a tree (Committee 4:157-158). This statement was remarkable for several reasons. Most of the ways in... | |
| David M. Friedman - 2008 - 376 sidor
...themselves . . . and it is a message that unless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the US Senate, rather than hung from a tree." This image of Clarence Thomas, his teeth clenched in anger and his thick wrestler's body encased... | |
| Jonathan Markovitz - 2004 - 268 sidor
...think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas," claiming diat the hearings were "a message that, unless you kow-tow to an old order,...lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of die US Senate, rather than hung from a tree."2 When asked to elaborate, Thomas drew attention to a... | |
| Charles J. Ogletree - 2004 - 412 sidor
...themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order . . . you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the US Senate rather than hung from a tree."1 I was particularly disappointed that Thomas attacked the committee members directly and that... | |
| Jürgen Bröhmer - 2004 - 460 sidor
...themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that, unless you kow-tow to an old order, that is what will happen to you, you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a Committee of the United States Senate, rather than hung from a tree", Nominations of Judge Clarence Thomas, Senate Judieiary... | |
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