Word: brawley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truth of Do the Right Thing? Whose side is Lee on? Is the movie a revolutionary scream or a fatalistic shrug? Lee leaves plenty of hints -- contradictory epigrams from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, a dedication to families of blacks slain by police, graffiti proclaiming TAWANA ((Brawley)) TOLD THE TRUTH -- but no coherent clues. Lee cagily provides a litmus test for racial attitudes in 1989, but he does so by destroying the integrity of his characters, black and white. They vault from sympathetic to venomous in the wink of a whim. One minute, Sal delivers a moony monologue...
...authors in and around the courtroom, armed with notebooks and contracts. Last year's "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers for strangling Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, for example, will soon yield Wasted, a book by Linda Wolfe (The Professor and the Prostitute). The Tawana Brawley affair has inspired a team of six New York Times reporters and an editor to collaborate on a volume projected for release in late 1989. Politics and sex were the surefire ingredients of the fraud, bribery and conspiracy trial of former Miss America Bess Myerson, and, sure enough, they...
...musicians who became famous by copying his style and gyrating dance techniques. He says, "The only two people who have shown love and respect for James Brown are Little Richard and Al Sharpton," the New York City preacher who stirred up a storm over the purported rape of Tawana Brawley and is now organizing a campaign to gain Brown's early release. Complains Sharpton, who sports a Brown-style hairdo: "The country would never have done this to Elvis...
...York State Bar Association for their accusations and face possible disbarment for knowingly subverting justice. Sharpton, although a preacher and not a lawyer, has also completely lost what little credibility he had. On the Morton Downey show, he affirmed on his Bible that everything he said about the Brawley case was true...
...tragedy here is not that Tawana Brawley lied. The tragedy is that the next Black victim of a racial crime who tells the truth may not be believed. Once someone cries wolf, it is not easy to be open-minded the next time around. It is unfortunate for all New Yorkers that the memories of Sharpton, Maddox and Mason may last far longer in New York than their careers as activists...