Mrs Clarence Thomas asks Anita Hill Why she did what she did

“Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” it said. “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”

Mrs Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas’ white wife is reaching out to his Black victim to revictimize her by asking her why she did what she did? What is wrong with this woman? Doesn’t she have any sensitivity to the case of sexual abuse and to deny that her husband did what he did is terrible.  I find this preposterous and racist to booth.  What gives her the right to make such a request.  I think it is an insult to Anita and she is not serious about mending fences.

As for her husband Clarence Thomas, I think Anita should forgive him for his self-hatred. It is not his fault. The system taught him to hate himself and anything that reminds him he is black why else would he tell the world he is not into black women, does not find them attractive but finds white women attractive. Let them just keep to themselves and leave Anita to get on with her life. If Clarence is feeling his mortality and wants her forgiveness let him be man enough to do so instead of hiding behind his woman’s skirt.

“I thought it was certainly inappropriate,” Ms. Hill said. “It came in at 7:30 a.m. on my office phone from somebody I didn’t know, and she is asking for an apology. It was not invited. There was no background for it.”

Anita Hill Asked to Apologize by Justice Thomas’s Wife – NYTimes.com

A Raisin in the Sun- Soul-pepper Theatre

You have to see this –  

Years and years ago (like 1951) African American poet Langston Hughes asked a point-blank question: What happens to a dream deferred? While flashbacks from grade nine English class prompt us along to subsequent questions- does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?– director Weyni Mengesha stops here, taking the audience through a spectacularly contrived mulling-over of this notion on stage at the opening night of  Soulpepper’s A Raisin in the Sun.

Inspired by Hughes’ poem, Harlem, American playwright Lorraine Hansberry sets the broken promise that is an unfulfilled dream in Chicago (South Side), where the dreamers are shoeboxed-up in a tiny – yet charming- apartment where rooms are separated by curtains and the family room couch converts to a bed at night. This is the dwelling for the Youngers- where Mama Lena is queen and her son, Walter Lee, along with his wife, Ruth, their son, Travis, and Walter’s sister Benny (Beneatha), conduct themselves under her “tyranny.” 

The play opens with Ruth (a ravishing Abena Malika) cooking eggs for  Walter (Charles Officer), weighed-down by the ball and chain of a deadend job as a chauffer and an insatiable itch to dig his family out of poverty and buy his wife some pearls. Bahia Watson flits across the stage as his headstrong and flamboyant  sister, Benny, who dreams of becoming a doctor and not needing a man, toying with suitors and her family’s patience along the way.

Throughout the show, the feeling of dreams being swallowed up by reality is unshakeable.  Maybe because the small fortune Lena (Alison Sealy-Smith) comes into -insurance money from her husband’s death-  can’t satisfy them all: investments for Walter, med school funds for Mizz Independent, and the chance at a real home for Ruth and Travis. But the frustration of the Youngers’ collective failed dreams is aggravated by the distinctive intolerant racial climate of 1960s America. Their attempt to purchase a house in an all-white neighbourhood stirs backlash within the community (“That’s the way the crackers crumble,” notes Ruth.)

The show captures the lifespan of a dream, from hope to heartache to that bottom-of-the-barrel darkness that comes right before our deepest yearnings crossover to reality. And we get to be a part of that magic, witnessing the triumphs over financial woes, racial barriers, their limits, themselves, which only strengthen an unrelenting Daydream Believer and his Homemaking Queen.

The Deets: A Raisin in the Sun. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Distillery District. Oct. 19-Nov. 13. For tickets, call 416.866.8666

Entertainer’s pet dog help him through the dark times

Eighties pop icon Rick Springfield talks to  Chatelaine Magazine about his bout with depression and how his dogs helped him through the dark times. He said hugging his dog felt like hugging God.  God is in every detail on the planet or in the universe isn’t that so.  Remember his popular hit “Jessie’s girl”.  Check out the article

Rick Springfield late, late at night Chatelaine.com