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 ThomasClarence Thomas' elevation to the Supreme Court. When yesterday's climactic votes ensured that Clarence Thomas had survived the Senate ordeal, his mother, Leona Williams, literally jumped for joy. She immediately called her son to give him her love. A handwritten sign that had already been erected proclaimed that Pinpoint, Georgia was the home of Judge ThomasClarence Thomas. The community gathered in front of the town's only big screen television, and applauded and sang when the victory of the native son was certain.