1991 “This is a circus, it’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” “I will not provide the rope for my own lynching or for further humiliation.” With those declarations, Clarence Thomas would help shape the narrative of discourse on sexual violence and Black women for the next twenty years. Thomas’ rhetoric brought with it recollections of an historical legacy that no one wanted to take part in-- the so[...]