Posted on 02/25/2007 4:21:09 PM PST by lightman
Ping.
"Bernhard Goetz, who shot some black youths"
Bernhard Goetz, who shot some criminal savages in self-defense.
There, that's better.
And she alluded to Sharpton having become what? A race-baiting pimp?
Two of Sharpton's associates quit, claiming the reverend had known all along that the case was a hoax. Other black leaders criticized Brawley's advisers -- Ray Innes of the Congress of Racial Equality and attorney Conrad Lynn among them. They feared the hoax and the antics of publicity hounds like Sharpton would prove detrimental to the cause of racial equality.
The Brawley case resurfaced a decade later when Steven Pagones filed a defamation suit against Maddox, Mason and Sharpton; he had already won a default judgment against Tawana in 1991. By 1997, Tawana had moved to Washington and changed her name to Maryam Muhammad. She returned to New York to speak before a rally at Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church in support of her advisers, insisting that she had told the truth about the abduction. The court found otherwise. Her advisers were ordered to pay Pagones $345,000 while Tawana had to pay $185,000.
Beat me to it. The other part they left out is that muggings basically ceased for what, about a week after Bernie asserted his right not to be beat up and robbed?
/sarc
So, should the Thurmonds demand a refund? /sarc
The story I read on this earlier led me to believe he was descended from one of Thurmans relatives.
Now they say his antecedents were merely owned by a relative of Strom Thurmond.
This is no big deal. So what?
My gut tells me this is contrived. I'm sure Al Sharpton's family must have been owned by Al Gore's great-great-great-grandfather. Just look at the similarity of the first names.
Y'know, some people just go around looking for trouble. Thurmond's alleged slave-owning ancestors are dead. Sharpton's alleged slave ancestors are dead. So what. He should get on with his life and get over it. But nooooooooo ... just more fuel for his victim-mentality poor-me, I'm-oppressed-because-my-ancestors-200-years-ago-were-oppressed, fire. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this.
Yeah, the timing is very suspicious what with this weekend being the debut of the film Amazing Grace.
Sharpscum starts feeling useless if a month goes by without his name in headlines.
Barack Obama and Vice President Cheney are cousins. I think Obama is also related to President Bush and President Truman.
ABSOLUTELY! If his ancestors were as trifling as old Al, the Thurmonds should require him to pay them for allowing them to live on their land! Has Al ever done an honest day's work?
Thanks for fixing that, re Bernard Goetz. They should'a given him a parade.
Sharpton was a marginal figure in the Democratic Party, until the Clintons sought him out.
Shapton's forebear had an honest job and supported his family. Al doesn't own the shirt on his devious back.
He's too dumb to realize it, but he's still on the "Plantation".
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