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On the Rev. Barber

By K.C. Johnson

Amidst the lacrosse case, more-than-occasional comparisons occurred to the Tawana Brawley rape hoax. The cases, in fact, don?t seem to me all that much alike: there was no prosecutorial misconduct in the Brawley case (if anything, there was the reverse), and there was nothing like 88 Columbia or Fordham or NYU professors taking out a full-page ad to proclaim something ?happened? to Brawley.But there is one similarity between the two cases?the eventual mainstreaming of advocates for the false accusers. In the Brawley case, of course, the highest-profile such figure was Rev. Al Sharpton, who has evolved from a charlatan to a Democratic presidential candidate (2004) to host of a talk show on which many Democratic politicians appear.In the lacrosse case, the best example of mainstreaming comes with the Rev...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 13, 2014 (boomark / email).