When Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas, a US Supreme Court nominee, of lurid sexual harassment during her October 11, 1991 testimony, the Senate Judiciary Committee (all men) believed Clarence Thomas. Outraged voters elected women like California Senator Diane Feinstein, who now sits on the Judiciary committee. All women Senators and members of Congress, whether Democrat or Republican, need to join Hawaiian senator Mazie Hirono and demand a FBI investigation. They must denounce and seek the arrest of those making death threats against Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape. Christine Blasey Ford is Anita Hill on steroids because in 2018 we add social media to the mix.
If I took a poll of women in my diverse social media network from all over the world, you can bet 4 out of 6 have experienced some type of sexual assault (rape, attempted rape) and/or sexual harassment. Most girls and women never report it to authorities because they are raped all over again by the judicial system: parading their consensual sexual history, attacking their credibility and protecting the predatory perpetrator. Even some family members and friends don’t believe the female victim. Well, after hearing and seeing the evidence, I believe Ms. Hill and I believe Ms. Ford. She told her husband, her therapist and others about “prep school” Kavanaugh attempting to rape her at the house party years before he was nominated for the US Supreme Court. A successful woman with a husband and children would not risk death threats and menacing Republican Senators promising to send her to prison for perjury, unless she was telling the truth. Ms. Ford seeks justice.
Social justice may seem like just an imaginary ideal, but we have to keep struggling to make equal rights and justice a reality. That’s why all the original songs on my new album, which drops October 2018, have social justice themes: sexism, racism, fascism, classism, environmentalism… and magnificent music played by phenomenal musicians. I hope my songs inspire people and someday, one day, we will live in a world with “liberty and justice for all.”
One Love…
Aria