He mounted his own defense by charging that the committee proceedings were high-tech lynching of uppity blacks.

He described the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching for those uppity blacks who dare to deviate from the old rules."

When Thomas testified against Hill's claims before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he called the hearings, "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks," although Hill herself was black.

Here is Mr. Thomas responding by calling the hearings "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks."

"When our ancestors built this town, they were seen as uppity blacks, with the audacity to talk about incorporating their own town," Mr. Matthewson said.

When he arrives at his most famous line, calling the hearings "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks," he gestures as if hanging himself with his red paisley tie, the image of a contemporary lynched man.

Because there are white leftists enraged at the uppity blacks who'd tried to kick them out of their own movement.

From my standpoint as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves.

Dropping his usual accommodating manner, he let the fury pour out of him, calling the current inquiry "a national disgrace" and "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks."

Thomas denied her allegations categorically and denounced the hearings as a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves."