Word: brawley
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...Cosby is driven by his civil rights zeal. If an ambition to be America's most prominent black big shot is zeal for civil rights, then sure. But Cosby's moralist impulses are often a crank's misguided preachiness. In 1988 he joined the race-baiting Tawana Brawley scam. His NBC, according to associates, would have no place for a bad-attitude show such as The Simpsons...
...biggest change of our college career has been the nation's move into a world where scandal is now establishment journalism. Woody and Mia, Charles Stuart, the Jackson family, Pamela Smart, Amy Fisher, Bob Packwood, Tawana Brawley, Patty Davis, Clarence Thomas, Milli Vanilli--you name it, we've read headlines about it in the past four years...
Call it another cover-up. Love bites (hickeys) may bruise skin. But at the Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, they apparently also bruise sensibilities. So much so that the Brawley, California, health company has banned hickeys from sight. Officials say they took the action after six months of complaints from patients and staff that too many employees -- sometimes four or five a day -- were coming in with telltale marks visible on their neck. Employees who refuse to disguise evidence of their passions will be sent home and docked...
...tendency to dismiss black women's complaints as either exaggerations or outright fantasies has grown stronger since the Tawana Brawley fiasco. In that case, a 15-year-old black girl claimed that she had been abducted and raped by a mysterious gang of white men. It turned out that she had cooked up the story. Some feminists believe the doubts about black women's veracity stirred up by Brawley's lies may have led to acquittals in several rape cases in which the victim was a black woman...
...more dangerous is the way demagogues have been able to dismiss as no more than "racism" the workings of the U.S. justice system in cases like the notorious 1987 Tawana Brawley affair. The fragile mechanisms of equity that Americans have struggled hard to establish -- and must still struggle hard to improve -- are among the things most threatened by the sweeping fiats of victimology...