July 18, 2013
The Sun Journal
Letter to the Editor
Al Sharpton revisited
It’s interesting, if not a little sickening,
to watch the Rev. Al Sharpton address the NAACP convention the other day. A
true civil rights defender, Sharpton
never fails to inspire his audience with his fiery rhetoric. He’s come a long way from where he began
back in November of 1987.
Today’s generation know little about this man
since the incident that propelled him to center stage took place before many of
you were born; they only know the Sharpton of today.
On November 28, 1987, a fifteen-year-old African
American, Tawana Brawley
was found inside of a large trash bag outside of her family’s former apartment
in Wappingers Falls, New York, a town of about 5,000 people in Duchess County.
Ms. Brawley was in a fetal position, seemingly incoherent. Her clothing had
been torn and burned, her weave had been cut out, dog feces was smeared all
over her and racial slurs were written on her body.
The infamous case of Tawana Brawley and Al
Sharpton, now a MSNBC host , falsely accused a prosecutor, a New York police
officer and a state trooper of a racist attack and rape. The media went wild; the
cameras could not get
enough of the Rev. Al and his protégé. A
Grand Jury was convened; the time had come to punish those responsible.
Taken from the Grand Jury report:
In the decision, the grand jury noted
many problems with Brawley's story. Among these were that the rape kit results
did not indicate sexual assault. Additionally, despite her claim of having been
held captive for days, Brawley was not suffering from exposure, was
well-nourished, and appeared to have brushed her teeth recently. Despite her
clothing being charred, there were no burns on her body. Although a shoe she
was wearing was cut through, Brawley had no injuries to her foot. The racial
epithets written on her were upside down, which led to suspicion that Brawley
had written the words. Testimony from her schoolmates indicated she had
attended a local party during the time of her supposed abduction. One witness
claimed to have observed Brawley's climbing into the garbage bag. Brawley never
testified.
Even the uber liberal New York Times had this
to say: After seven months, 6,000 pages of testimony and 180 witnesses, a grand jury found Ms. Brawley’s story to be a lie.
Neither the police officer nor the district attorney accused by Ms. Brawley and
Mr. Sharpton had been involved in any way, the report concluded.
But this article is not about Tawana Brawley; it’s about a black racist who
has never been punished for his involvement in the death of one of the accused.
Maybe you knew or maybe you forgot, but a 28-year-old Fishkill
Police Officer, Harry Crist
Jr., committed suicide a week after the false charges were made against
him. The rest of the
accused were demonized in the relentless press conferences and marches by
Sharpton and others.
This is the America that rogues like Sharpton
and Holder envision; a
Nation, not of one people but a Nation divided. Was the death of Officer Harry Crist
Jr. the result of black racism? You
be the judge. But when you watch the ring master, Al Sharpton, remember this
story because it shows his true colors. The
same colors that are displayed when Eric Holder speaks or Jesse Jackson
marches; they do this to divide, not unite.
Louis Call
New Bern, NC
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