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...half a dozen specialists for various complaints, the difficulties constitute a diabolical maze. Nor do many doctors reach out to make things easier. Most AIDS caseworkers with deaf clients can name one who was simply handed a piece of paper saying, "You have AIDS," with no follow- up. Quanquilla Mason, a deaf and blind New Yorker who has since died, remembered going into emergency surgery. "I was afraid," recalled Mason, "and the surgeon wasn't making any effort to explain to me what he was doing, and I was asking, 'Please let my interpreter come, please let her come explain...
Cutting-edge typographers in California produced a typeface dubbed Manson. For $95, art directors can set their serial-killer Zeitgeist essays in Manson Regular, Manson Alternate or Manson Bold (all officially redubbed Mason after criticism...
Sharpton and two attorneys, Alton H. Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason, took up the case. They did not let Brawley speak to a grand jury or with New York Attorney General Robert Abrams. When Brawley's mother was subpoenaed, Sharpton advised her not to testify and took her to a church for sanctuary...
Having paralyzed the justice system by silencing all of the witnesses, Sharpton, Maddox and Mason subsequently publicized a series of outlandish conspiracy theories, implicating the Ku Klux Klan, the Irish Republican Army, the Mafia and elected officials of Duchess County, NY in the crime. They viciously slandered public officials--including Attorney General Abrams, whom they branded a sexual pervert and compared to Adolf Hitler...
...that blacks have," says Jonathan Kaufman, author of Broken Alliance, a book about black-Jewish relations. "Jews still remain the one group that's willing to vote for a black candidate." And although the press dwells on alleged black anti- Semitism, Roger Wilkins, a professor of history at George Mason University, observes, "Black people didn't create the law firms and banking firms that wouldn't hire Jews. The Wasps did that...