Well Good For Them

The front page of today's New York Post has an article about where Tawana Brawley is now, some 25 years after her phony claim of being raped by a bunch of white men set off one of the biggest racial confrontations of its day. Tawana, according to the Post, now lives in Virginia under an alias in order to avoid her past. Back in the days of the phony rape, Tawana was a slim and quite good looking teen. In those days, whenever she was seen in public, she was always accompanied by her "family adviser" the rather obese younger Al Sharpton. In a strange twist of fate, Tawana is now obese and in hiding, and a now thin Sharpton is a media personality on MSNBC.

What Brawley did was to tell a lie to her mother to cover up her own three day bender. She is hardly the first teen to do something like that. Her misfortune was to have that lie adopted by a race-baiter like Sharpton who used it to destroy the reputations and even the lives of some law enforcement personnel in and around Newburgh, New York. Sharpton took the lie of a teen and used it for personal gain. Tawana should have come clean sooner -- but, for all we know, she may have. Sharpton, however, should have and did know better. And he got off totally free. Even when a jury found Sharpton guilty of defamation for falsely repeating claims that Brawley had been raped by a particular assistant district attorney, Sharpton just said he had no money and failed to pay the judgment.

So where is the big Post article on Sharpton?