Misleading header,as uaual.
It says “practically” absent in the text.
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Anita Hill, the woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment, however, is given prominent billing in the museum.That is the only context in which he appears in the museum. That does boil down to a conspicuous absence. The issue is the revolution, once again.
The new Smithsonian, which opened in September, gives Hill pride of place in an exhibit on blacks in the 1990s. The exhibit features testimonies trumpeting her courage and the surge of women’s activism that ensued, while making only peripheral reference to the nation’s second black Supreme Court justice.
There is no showcase of Thomas’s own life and career, which ran its own harsh gauntlet of racial discrimination. …