Posted on 05/19/2011 6:50:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Al Sharpton may have mellowed - but he still won't apologize for the Tawana Brawley debacle.
A quarter-century later after he whipped up racial tensions over the incendiary case, Sharpton still stands by a story that the courts of law and public opinion long ago ruled a hoax.
Pressed on CBS' "60 Minutes" to explain why he never apologized for accusations that proved false, Sharpton said, "I don't know that."
"I have thought about that a million times," Sharpton said. "I just don't believe they treated that case fair."
Back in 1987, 15-year-old Brawley claimed she had been abducted and raped for four days by a group of white men, at least one a cop. She was found in a garbage bag, covered in feces and charcoal-scrawled racial epithets.
Sharpton, a brash young activist and minister, took over publicity for Brawley and made inflammatory accusations of a massive cover up, naming an assistant district attorney as one of the rapists.
The case fell apart when the grand jury refused to indict, citing no physical evidence of rape and witnesses who saw Brawley when she was supposed to have been held captive.
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All this shows is Sharpton still is a low rent act.
Yet here he is forced to talk about it some 25 years later. LOL
I don’t understand why this slob is taken seriously by every news outlet, including Fox.
Sharpton can’t stand that Hussein Obama has grabbed the title of the most prominent anti-Semite in America.
All this shows is Sharpton still is a low rent act.
And Pete Rose didn’t bet on baseball.
The constants in this world: the sun rises in the east, sets in the west and Al Sharpton will always be filth.
What he should do is PAY UP!
Good “Rev’’. And as someone who was working in NY at the time you and Alton Maddox and C.Vernon Mason were doing your best to advance race relations and defend Ms. Brawleys honor I won’t apologize when I call you my favorite race-mongering ,white-hating knuckle-dragging porch-monkey. Sound about right “Rev’’?
You mean epitaph ?
On the other hand, Tawana Brawley is an epithet. Or should be.
Turds do not apologize for being turds.
it, is whatnot...
Why would he? He has zero integrity and he’s been dining out on Tawana Brawley for more than 20 years.
Crown Heights!
Freddies Fashion Mart!
A few of Al's other episodes (where people died because of his racists rants) that he doesn't feel the need to apologize for.
Sharpton, a brash young activist and minister,
They left out the most important description, “racist”
Absolutely correct.
What difference does it make whether or not this piece of dung apologises.
We all know what he is. Th only people who follow him are the totally ignorant. Admittedly that’s a lot of black people and it might be taken as racist, but it is fact.
It takes an ignorant imbecile to fall for Al Sharpton’s schtick.
The ignorant have kept Al In $1,000 dollars suits and high priced hotel rooms for along time.
I think Fox News needs to apologize to us for having this POS on their programing constantly! And I’m sure he’s getting paid a bunch!
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