Bashing Al Sharpton (Was: Re: Chomsky News Network)

[Brad DeLong]

>Patricia J. Williams discusses the Tawana Brawley
>affair in her book, The Alchemy of Race and Rights,
>published by Harvard University Press. In 1987
>Brawley, a 15-year-old black girl who lived in
>Wappingers Falls, New York, alleged that she had been
>abducted and sexually assaulted by white racist lawmen
>after being discovered in a  vacant lot with cigarette
>burns and dog feces on her body. Following public
>uproar, a grand jury concluded that Ms. Brawley's
>account was a hoax, and that she had faked the rape to
>escape punishment for being out late that night. This
>resulted in uproar of a different sort.
>
>"No matter who did it to her---and even if she did it
>to herself. Her condition was clearly the expression
>of some crime against her, some tremendous violence,
>some great violation that challenges comprehension.
>And it is this much that I grieve about. The rest of
>the story is lost, or irrelevant in the worst of all
>possible ways."
>http://tinyurl.com/9w0
>
>=====
>Kevin Dean

Do you genuinely not know the role played by Sharpton in the Brawley 
case? Or are you just trying to distract attention from it?

Brad DeLong