Ginny Thomas is No Beyonce
BY t. tara turk
For those of you too enraptured with TI's recent parole violation (I, for one, am devastated) to know what I'm talking about, Ginny Thomas, wife of Clarence, decided last Saturday morning (7:30am in the morning to be exact - sleep much, Ginny?) to call the Brandeis Campus office of Anita Hill, the woman who testified that Clarence Thomas showed GROSS (literally gross) sexual misconduct towards her during their working relationship, and ask Anita, a notoriously private woman who has MOVED ON as she is now a professor at Brandeis University, to consider apologizing for her testimony against Clarence...19 years later. Talk about a grudge.
The media is a buzz about why Ginny is doing this now which baffles me because it's quite simple given the fact that Ginny has been a super Tea Party Conservative Party train for the past year or so. This isn't even as deliciously bad as the Beyonce/Idris Elba/Ali Larter movie "Obsessed." You might call this one "Boring" or "Ginny, Get A Life
Already" (my Facebook friend's are saying more vulgar things that I giggle about but I won't mention them here). The real issue here is that Ginny, not very slick I might add, is trying to shield us away from her ethics issues by causing a distraction. You might call this "Quick, Go Look at The Black Woman and Not Me." Given our media tendency to follow the finger, that's exactly what we are doing. Even Stevie Wonder could see this one.
I find all of this interesting as Ntozake Shange's play gets Tyler Perry-ized in the film "for colored girls" as the play (I can't vouch for the movie yet) is all about self-love and empowerment from a black woman's perspective. Maybe we should do an intervention with Ginny Thomas so she can get herself together as she has not so difficultly shown us that the there is a hole there with her that she is either oblivious to or unaware of. Sad that in this day and age a white woman married to a black man is unable to see the damage she asks, twenty years later, another woman to apologize for telling her truth, especially when that woman is the same color as her own husband. This is not emotional for her. This is a bad game plan that violates so many people's privacy, including her own baffled family.
It was bad enough that we had to endure Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's BS confirmation where severe red flags were ignored in order to satisfy conservative and supposedly folks of color by electing his ridiculousness to our highest court. Now we have to deal with his crazy wife.
For those of you too enraptured with TI's recent parole violation (I, for one, am devastated) to know what I'm talking about, Ginny Thomas, wife of Clarence, decided last Saturday morning (7:30am in the morning to be exact - sleep much, Ginny?) to call the Brandeis Campus office of Anita Hill, the woman who testified that Clarence Thomas showed GROSS (literally gross) sexual misconduct towards her during their working relationship, and ask Anita, a notoriously private woman who has MOVED ON as she is now a professor at Brandeis University, to consider apologizing for her testimony against Clarence...19 years later. Talk about a grudge.
The media is a buzz about why Ginny is doing this now which baffles me because it's quite simple given the fact that Ginny has been a super Tea Party Conservative Party train for the past year or so. This isn't even as deliciously bad as the Beyonce/Idris Elba/Ali Larter movie "Obsessed." You might call this one "Boring" or "Ginny, Get A Life
Already" (my Facebook friend's are saying more vulgar things that I giggle about but I won't mention them here). The real issue here is that Ginny, not very slick I might add, is trying to shield us away from her ethics issues by causing a distraction. You might call this "Quick, Go Look at The Black Woman and Not Me." Given our media tendency to follow the finger, that's exactly what we are doing. Even Stevie Wonder could see this one.I find all of this interesting as Ntozake Shange's play gets Tyler Perry-ized in the film "for colored girls" as the play (I can't vouch for the movie yet) is all about self-love and empowerment from a black woman's perspective. Maybe we should do an intervention with Ginny Thomas so she can get herself together as she has not so difficultly shown us that the there is a hole there with her that she is either oblivious to or unaware of. Sad that in this day and age a white woman married to a black man is unable to see the damage she asks, twenty years later, another woman to apologize for telling her truth, especially when that woman is the same color as her own husband. This is not emotional for her. This is a bad game plan that violates so many people's privacy, including her own baffled family.
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| Mary Ann Chastain / AP File |
Jenny Sanford, the ex-wife of scandal plagued Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, should teach Ginni a thing or two about class. I wonder if there's a movie in this. A reverse "My Fair Lady" of sorts. I'd rather watch it on the screen than in the news. We are a bit busy in the news...with real issues.
T. Tara Turk's fiction has appeared in African Voices, Exit the Apple and the international anthology X24. Her plays have appeared at New Federal Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater and the Actor’s Studio. Her screenplays have been featured in such festivals as Reel Sisters, BHERC and on BETJ. Contact her at scruffdiva[at]gmail.com.
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