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That is, anyone except Brawley's advisors, the Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyers Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason. Their grandstand tactics have brought the case national notoriety, are costing New York taxpayers more than $500,000 and have strained race relations in the state to the breaking point...
...suffer the effects of a judicial system that never seemed to defend their rights anyway. The confused and frightened 15-year old girl who cried wolf may have set back race relations in the state by several years, but most New Yorkers prefer to place the blame on Sharpton, Maddox and Mason--who knowingly defended the false accusations--rather than on Brawley...
...people should listen to. What the Brawley case shows is that the Black community must rely on its responsible leaders, who may not shout themselves onto the evening news every night but who are willing to work within the system to achieve change. If demagogues and self-promoters like Sharpton, Maddox and Mason are allowed to speak for all the Blacks in New York, the progress made by Blacks during the past few years in obtaining justice in the courts will be lost...
...Sharpton, a loud, overweight minister with a rock-star hair-do, has long been a Black activist from the pulpit and in front of the television cameras but has never been accepted or respected by well-known Black political activists in New York. Maddox and Mason are lawyers who have always been willing to take on extremely controversial cases in attempts to underlines the judicial system...
Cries of whites-only justice echo as well in New York City. "No justice! No peace!" bellows the Rev. Al Sharpton at innumerable demonstrations on behalf of Tawana Brawley, the black teenager from Wappingers Falls, N.Y., who says she was abducted and raped by six white men. For more than eight months, Sharpton and Activist Attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox Jr. have waged guerrilla warfare against the state officials looking into the case and effectively prevented any significant investigation of the charges. The trio's wild claims and controversial tactics have alienated many blacks as well as whites...