Planet EgoMania Celebrates Black History Month

just lookin' outta the window...watchin' the asphalt grow..

Being a ethnically diverse Princess I decided to celebrate black history month. Each week I will feature a well known afriKan AmeriKan on this page. This weeks profile AA's are:
Al Sharpton & Tawana Brawley

so dair I be..and deese guys jump me....

Back in 1987 black teenager Tawana Brawley claimed that six white law enforcement officers abducted and raped her. Those claims and others that her attackers had scrawled racial insults on her body and smeared her with feces were declared a hoax long ago by a grand jury that also exonerated the man at the center of the accusations, then-assistant district attorney Steven Pagones.

Pagones was named as one of the attackers by Miss Brawley's advisers: Maddox, the Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyer C. Vernon Mason.
While Miss Brawley refused to speak with authorities or the media, her advisers, key figures in the 1987 prosecution of a white gang that killed a black youth in Brooklyn, soon were making wild claims.

Jury selection was supposed to have started for the Pagones’ defamation lawsuit, seeking more than $150 million from Miss Brawley’s three advisers.

Maddox accused then-state Attorney General Robert Abrams of masturbating over photos of Miss Brawley. Sharpton compared Abrams, a Jew, to Adolf Hitler. All three linked then-Gov. Mario Cuomo to organized crime and the Ku Klux Klan.
But the grand jury within a year announced the story was a hoax and specifically cleared a Fishkill police officer and Pagones.

Sharpton has said the advisers could argue that Pagones’ position as a public figure invalidates his defamation claims.
For Sharpton, the case is his latest stint in the public spotlight. Earlier this year, he was a Democratic candidate for mayor of New York.

I hope you enjoyed this weeks great AfriKan Amerikan...come back for next weeks honored black ameriKan!

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