Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00396)

"Steve Stubbs " wrote:
> > Al Sharpton has been successfully sued for libel.
> 
> I never heard that. By whom? You are of coursde aware that his
> followers dismiss all his critics as racists, one and all.

When Steve Pagones, a Dutchess County prosecutor, was getting too close
to the truth in the Tawana Brawley case, Sharpton stated that Pagones
was one of the men who raped Tawana Brawley. He won $65,000 in a libel
suit against Sharpton. The point here being that Sharpton has been known
to make wild accusations, without any basis (he also accused noted New
York State Atttorney General Robert Abrams of masturbating on pictures
of Tawana Brawley, narrowly missed jail time for inciting a crowd
against a clothing store which ended up with the store being firebombed
and burnt to the ground, and, of course, defines a "racist" as anybody
who does not agree with him.

Of course, people like Jackson, Sharpton, and Farrakhan are the ones
whom the press chooses to call "black leaders", ignoring good, honest,
and potentially more effective leaders like, say, Tony Brown (gives much
the same message as Farrakhan, but minus the racism and anti-Semitism,
although he is a bit out there in his anti-Masonry). 

Bart Lidofsky