Thomas Sowell walked into the Bork confirmation hearings in September 1987 wearing a gray suit and a red tie, sat down in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and did what very few people in that room could anticipate. He decided not to play along.
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The chairman leading the hearing was Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Biden tried to portray Judge Robert Bork as a man opposed to civil rights, and he pressed Sowell — a Black economist — to help prove that. Biden asked him if there were “enough” qualified Black students to occupy spots at places like MIT and Harvard. It was a loaded question dressed up to look like a factual one. Sowell didn’t flinch.
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