After 20 Minute Speech, Booker Walks out of Hearing Room: ‘I Cannot Participate ... in this Dark Moment’

‘I cannot sit here’

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BOOKER: “Sir, I will stop with this. I will stop with this, with respect for the committee and respect for you. I cannot sit here, I cannot participate in what I know that history is going to look back as a dark moment again, and the same would look back at the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas trials. I cannot participate in that. I conclude my remarks, sir, we should not brush aside her comments. We should not belittle her testimony. We should listen to her. We should listen to women, and we should thoroughly investigate this before moving forward to do, and any of the thing, is to diminish the truth, diminish the issue of sexual harassment in this country, and to again relegate ourselves to what I believe is a dark, dark element of our society. With that, sir, I will leave.”

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