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.
Pinpoint, Georgia, the home town of Clarence Thomas, made no secret of its pride in its favorite son. Its citizens, including his mother, Leola Williams, were anxiously awaiting the results of the U.S. Senate vote on 16 October 1991 for U.S. Supreme Court justice. When the confirmation came, it brought joyful and prayerful exclamations from his mother and the townspeople. A reporter asked about the sexual harrassment charge brought against her son by Anita Hill in 1981-1983. His mother responded with a prayer and the comment that Hill was "put up to it" by someone else.