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Of course it did not occur. But there was a direct benefit from Justice Clarence Thomas' Senate torture chamber treatment. It gave birth to a phrase that has been used in the media ever since Thomas himself described the confirmation proceedings as an "electronic lynching". When he used the "lynch" word, most black Americans understood perfectly what he meant. Many Americans began to understand that perhaps these liberals and women's rights groups that were so determined to "electronically lynch" him were going overboard in their fervent misguided demonizing zeal.

After that point America began to listen carefully to the confirmation hearing testimony and examined the real reason for the tirades. It soon became clear...His only major faux pas was that he was a dreaded "Conservative Black."

He was not shy about saying who he was. Justice Thomas' confirmation crucifixion was actually the beginning of a new conservative movement in urban America. This new movement helped hundreds of Americans and soon thousands to come to understand that liberals and liberal organizations in America could no longer think that they could speak for all black people. Liberal organizations like the National Organization of Women could no longer bully women conservatives into believing that their interests were the interests of all women.

Now, with another key seat up for grabs on the U.S. Supreme Court, another President Bush has made a selection that will rile up the liberals and they will try to recruit the minority community leaders to just come along and say what they are told to say and to believe what they are told to believe.

But this time there will be no electronic lynching going on in the Senate confirmation hearing. There are thousands of urban men and women who are conservative, and who know the truth and can weigh and evaluate as well as discern the liberal hysteria sell job being sold as fact. The liberals' sharpened knives will not work on this nominee She is not going to be a push over. President Bush described her as "a pit bull in size 6 shoes."

She's tough and if minorities feel that she is oblivious to the concerns and challenges that exist within urban communities, they should look at the facts. According to a recent USA Today article Miers supported a plan to increase minority representation on Dallas City Council. John Wiley Price, an African-American activist and member of the Dallas County Commissioners Court, recalled that Miers, while on the Council, was a firm supporter of a federal judge's plan to redistrict council elections to increase minority representation.

But she did not stop there. Miers pressed for minority inclusion in the Texas State Bar. In fact in 1992 she advocated for more representation of women and minorities.

I think Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson will be hard pressed to marginalize Miers as uncaring of minorities when they are faced with the fact that she started a program to raise funds for minority students and also worked to help the poor obtain legal services. Does that sound uncaring? It is exactly the type of community service and diversity that liberals like Rev. Jackson has been clamoring about. As a matter of fact, Miers helped launch a Free Legal Services Program that began as three clinics and have now grown to nine clinics.

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