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Sharpton--who is currently in the midst of a campaign for the U.S. Senate--first became a significant player in New York City race politics during the infamous Tawana Brawley trial in 1987. Brawley, a young Black woman, had been found one summer night, lying in an alley, covered with excrement. She claimed to have been kidnapped four days earlier, held captive in the woods and repeatedly raped by several white males...
...first achieved national prominence when hedefended Tawana Brawley, a Black teenager whoallegedly was kidnapped and raped by a group ofwhite men. Her accusations were neversubstantiated...
...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...
...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...