Posted on 09/28/2017 9:29:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
It was shocking to see University College Dublin’s Literary and Historical Society present their James Joyce award to Al Sharpton.
Al Sharpton?
Not mentioned anywhere in the citation was Sharpton’s role in the Tawana Brawley case, during which he defamed and destroyed utterly innocent men over a rape that never happened.
Nor were Sharpton’s former ties to the mob nor his role as an informer brought up, which is really no surprise.
Sharpton joined a prestigious list of other honorees that includes Nobel Prize-winners anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Irish politician John Hume and poet Seamus Heaney. I have no doubt those three great men would be disgusted at the company they are now keeping with the award. […]
Now presidents and mayors come calling. MSNBC even gave him a nightly show for a time. Now the name of Ireland’s greatest writer has been linked to this charlatan. The UCD Society that invited him should be ashamed of themselves. …
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