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1. I heard the museum even has the original coke can that had the pubic hair on it.

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2. Some context:

   New Smithsonian hails accuser Anita Hill, barely mentions Clarence Thomas (or Thurgood Marshall)
   Circa | 10/03/2016 | Raffi Williams

   The new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture treats conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas like a mere footnote while heralding the woman who accused him of sexual harassment, Anita Hill. Twenty-five years ago, Thomas became the second black Supreme Court Justice when he succeeded Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice. Neither man’s accomplishments as jurists on the high court get as much attention as Hill, though Marshall’s work on a landmark case as a lawyer is recognized.

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   Smithsonian on Why Clarence Thomas is Not in New African American Museum: We Cannot Tell Every Story
   CNSnews | 10/18/2016 | Penny Starr

   The new Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s tagline is “powerful moments in African American history, culture, and community.” However, the museum – with a $540 million price tag funded 50 percent by U.S. taxpayers and with a collection of more than 36,000 artifacts and 100,000 people represented – doesn’t include many prominent blacks, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Edward Brooke, a Republican who became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote in 1966. After touring the new museum and exploring the website, which contains information on all the exhibitions in it, CNSNews.com asked the Smithsonian why Thomas, Brooke and eight other prominent men and women are not included in the museum. CNSNews.com asked: “Many prominent African Americans are not included in the museum, most notably Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas … Can [the institute say] why Thomas and the others listed below are not a part of the museum exhibits?”

   Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian, replied:

   “There are many compelling personal stories about African Americans who have become successful in various fields, and, obviously, Associate Justice Thomas is one of them,” St. Thomas said in an email. “However, we cannot tell every story in our inaugural exhibitions.”

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3. The museum no doubt praises Bill Clinton.

   Does it give as much space to these women who accused Bill Clinton of rape as it does to Anita Hill?
   After all, he was a president, not just a Supreme Court judge.

   Eileen Wellstone
   Dolly Kyle Browning
   Sally Purdue
   Susie Whitacre
   Connie Hamzy
   Juanita Broaddrick
   Sandra Allen James
   Kathleen Willey
   Christy Zercher
   Lencola Sullivan
   Elizabeth Ward
   Paula Jones
   Gennifer Flowers
   Regina Hopper
   Marsha Scott
   Monica Lewinsky

   (And those are only the ones who dared come forward, knowing the Clintons’ tendency to have accusers — well — disappear.)

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   • HA!! Bimbo eruptions…that’s all.

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