That is true. Can't argue with that. But never can I remember it being 98%... Expecially to a guy that could give a shit less about them.
On November 28, 1987,
Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old black girl, was found smeared with
feces, lying in a garbage bag, her clothing torn and burned and with various slurs and epithets written on her body in charcoal. Brawley claimed she had been assaulted and
raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in the town of
Wappingers Falls, New York.
Attorneys
Alton H. Maddox and
C. Vernon Mason joined Sharpton in support of Brawley. A
grand jury was convened; after seven months of examining police and medical records, the jury determined that Brawley had fabricated her story. Sharpton, Maddox, and Mason accused the
Dutchess County prosecutor,
Steven Pagones, of racism and of being one of the perpetrators of the alleged abduction and rape. The three were successfully sued for slander and ordered to pay $345,000 in damages, the jury finding Sharpton liable for making seven defamatory statements about Pagones, Maddox for two, and Mason for one.
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I'm sure some of you remember that. And he didn't get elected?! That is obviously white people suppressing the black man. He later stated he still believed to this day that the grand jury was wrong. Why no appeal? I'm no lawyer but if he thought his client was right, why not try harder to prove it? Because he was in it for the fame. He wanted to see his name in the papers. He was an activist, right? That's exactly what he wanted.