Word: brawley
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...counted on to spark empathy--for instance, his early career as a traveling Pentecostal "boy preacher," which began at age four. But when it comes to his forays into racially charged controversies, Sharpton's account is self-servingly selective. Take his rendition of the saga of Tawana Brawley, the black teenager whose sensational claims of having been raped by a gang of white men kept New York City on the edge of racial meltdown for months. Nowhere does Sharpton mention his ridiculous allegation that she had been victimized by an Irish Republican Army conspiracy organized in a suburban sheriff...
...play's plot is complex. Jane (Lucia Brawley '99) and Tarik (Aaron Mathes '98), a young Arab-American couple, return to the house where Jane grew up in order to pack up her remaining belongings before her move to New York, where she is going to be a professional dancer. As soon as Tarik leaves Jane's room, the ghost of Deedee (Melissa Gibson '99), Jane's best friend from high school who died seven years earlier, appears and demands that Jane paint a portrait...
...other hand, Lucia Brawley's Jane was pleasant to watch. Well cast as a beautiful, sweet dancer, Brawley was the most able of the cast to hold the stage. Unfortunately she was forced to say some of the most ridiculous lines of the play, mostly concerning the plight of the Arab-American woman. Sometimes one wondered whether or not Shamieh was making fun of Jane: "I'm neither Arab nor American. I'm myself...
Realizing that he cannot win the Senate primary by attacking the white majority of New York State, Sharpton has more recently tried to distance himself from his past. At Harvard, he spoke of race relations in conciliatory tones and concentrated on other issues. "Brawley was '87 and this is '94," he told The New York Times two weeks...
...Brawley case was no minor instance of misconduct; it was a deliberately fabricated hoax and an obstruction of justice. Seven years is not enough time to forget...