And, a reporter asked, what would she say to Anita Hill if she had the chance?; "I'd tell her to pray," she replied. "She needs God bad. I won't say nothing bad about her because she's a mother-child, too. But, whoever put her up to it, I just pray she'll get her life straightened out."; In Thomas' birthplace, the hometown crowd has made no attempt to disguise where its heart lies. A handwritten sign on the main thoroughfare announces: "Pinpoint Georgia, the home of Judge Clarence Thomas."; Not surprisingly, no one here seemed to believe Hill's allegation that Thomas had sexually harassed her between 1981 and 1983 while she worked for him.; From a roof, a sign announced: "We believe Clarence."; Much of the community gathered before the only big-screen television available, at the home of Abraham Famble, deacon of the Sweet Fields of Eden Baptist Church, as the time for the Senate vote neared.; Williams prayed silently in the kitchen, asking God to watch over her son as she rubbed her hands nervously. The crowd joined her in the 23rd Psalm : "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death . . ."; As the tally reached a majority for Thomas, a cry of joy and applause rang out.; "Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal," Famble said.
The town of Pinpoint , Georgia celebrated Clarence Thomas ' election to the Supreme Court . When yesterday 's climactic votes showed that Thomas had survived the Senate ordeal , his wife , Leona Williams , literally jumped for joy . She immediately called her daddy to give him her love . A handwritten sign that had already been erected proclaimed that day , Georgia was the birthplace of Judge Clarence Thomas . The community gathered in front of the nation 's only big screen television , and applauded and sang when the birth of the native son was certain .