It would be another three months before Anita Hill burst onto the nation's front pages, but Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court was already highly controversial. In this session we learn how a black conservative looks to one black liberal: "We shall see what Clarence Thomas's qualifications are. But where a nominee has set his face against all that black Americans have struggled for for 100 years, he cannot expect them to embrace him. He may go to the Court, but if so, he should go without our imprimatur." ... WFB: "You seem to be saying that the Supreme Court ought to reflect the racial and ethnic composition of America, but it seems to me that in an ideal Platonic sense that ought to be absolutely irrelevant." EHN: "Verboten, indeed. ... What kind of silly-looking court would it be that touched base with the great diversity of our population?"