"It doesn’t matter whether the crime occurred or not," argued Stanley Diamond in The Nation, since it represents "what actually happens to too many black women."
Doh! There goes that "strategic" notion of "truth" again.
That said, the long profile in The Nation <URL: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010416&s=sherman > a few yrs. ago, made me rethink my pov on the Rev. Al.