• Wappingers Falls during the Tawana Brawley incident. Sharpton levied false accusations of rape against several people, one of whom committed suicide and another who successefully sued Sharpton & Co. for defamation. Perhaps the most public low point in Sharpton's career came in 1987 when he aligned himself with Tawana Brawley, a black teenager who accused six New York City police officers of kidnapping and raping her. A judge later ruled that Brawley fabricated the story and ordered Sharpton to pay $65,000 in damages after he accused an assistant district attorney of having a hand in the abduction. The stigma of the Brawley case has stuck with Sharpton
  
• Sharpton’s own comment about throwing out the “white interloper” (the exact racist phrase Sharpton used) as one of Sharpton’s people burned down a Jewish-owned store in Harlem (Freddy’s)
  
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  http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/collab/CivRts/BrawleyRslt.htm
  “A few days after Brawley was found, Harry Crist, Jr., a part time policeman who fit the description of Brawley committed suicide. Alton H Maddox and Rev Al Sharpton advised Brawley on what steps she should take in getting the guilty people in trouble. They told her what to tell the media and how to act in public”
  
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  http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/steven_a_pagones/index.html?offset=60&;
  “Cornelia and Harry Crist Sr still mourn death of son, Harry Crist Jr, former Fishkill, NY, police officer who committed suicide after he was named by advisers of Tawana Brawley as one of white attackers who allegedly raped her in 1986; Brawley’s advisers have also suggested that he may have been murdered as part of coverup;”
  
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  Sharpton's critics have accused him of using anti-white, anti-Jewish rhetoric that has led to people losing their lives -- on two occasions, protests led by Sharpton have escalated into fatal riots -- and have incited bad relations between the city's blacks and the police department. Some department officials have called Sharpton a troublemaker who politicizes race.
  
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  Rev. Al Sharpton  's blog where everything that is in disagreement with Sharpton is flagged offensive   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-al-sharpton/democrats-its-time-to-s_b_34530.html

• The news that the Rev. Jesse Jackson fathered a child out of wedlock with an aide, Karin Stanford, and used money from his nonprofit Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to pay the woman $40,000 in "moving expenses," broke in the National Enquirer and reintroduced the nation to the politics of sex. Jackson responded by issuing a statement saying, in part, "I fully accept responsibility and I am truly sorry for my actions." He also said that he would step away from public life "to revive my spirit and reconnect with my family  http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/19/jackson/index.html
  
•  News-Gazette of Champaign, Ill., where the University of Illinois is located, reported that former classmates of Jackson's said he left the school because he was caught plagiarizing. A part-time secretary in the physical education department re- called that Jackson had asked her to type an article from Time magazine for him and put his name on it. She recalled being interrogated about the matter by two football coaches. Jackson dismissed this as "rumor and innuendo." He obtained a letter from the president of the university saying that his "permanent academic record    http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1988/04b.html
  
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  Barbara Reynolds, a black journalist who once idolized Jesse Jackson, followed him for five years to collect information for her book. She has emerged as one of his strongest critics. She says, "I think Jesse is very much a creation of the media. He's a TV-made Madison Avenue production." One of the things that anger her is Jackson's success in creating the myth that he was so close to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that he was the last person to speak to him and that he cradled the mortally wounded King in his arms on the balcony of the Memphis motel where King was shot.
  This angered nearly all members of King's staff and his widow, Coretta Scott King. It appeared that Jesse Jackson was trying to create the impression in the public mind that he was closer to Dr. King at the time of his death than anyone else on his staff. King's aides knew that this was untrue. Others were physically closer to Dr. King at the time he was shot. The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy says he was at King's side from the time he was shot until he was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital. He said of Jesse Jackson, "I am sure that he would not say to me that he ever came near Dr. King after Doc was shot." Abernathy has also disclosed that Dr. King was not overly fond of the young and brash Jesse Jackson. He has said that five days before the assassinated, King had been angered by Jackson's con- duct, and he had said, "Jesse, it may be that you will carve your own individual niche in society. But don't you bother me." (New York Times Magazine, 11/29/87, p. 36)      http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1988/04b.html
  
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  Beginning in 1978, under the Carter Administration, the federal government provided $4.9 million to Jackson's PUSH-EXCEL, a unit of Operation PUSH. The money was supposed to go for a campaign to persuade minority students to avoid such problems as drugs and teen-age pregnancy and to do their homework. But a 1983 federal audit questioned or disallowed an amazingly high $2.1 million in expenditures. The contested amount was later reduced. Jackson's organization owes the Education Department $850,000, the Labor Department $557,000, and the Commerce Department $38,647. The Education and Commerce Departments have asked the Justice Department to try to get the money back.   http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1988/04b.html

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SirDiscipliner69

nappy-headed hos"

Any truth to the rumours regarding the following or is it racially motivated hate propaganda?
It bothers Me that these exist but are they true???

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Sirdiscipliner69

“A few days after Brawley was found, Harry Crist, Jr., a part time policeman who fit the description of Brawley committed suicide. Alton H Maddox and Rev Al Sharpton advised Brawley on what steps she should take in getting the guilty people in trouble. They told her what to tell the media and how to act in public”

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ORIGINAL: BOUNTYHUNTER

I agree with you Katy, you don"t hear a damm thing when those ambulances chasers sharpton and jackson spout off.NOT a word is said from those liberal ass white asses and the flame fanning blacks,Remember the tawamy  deal with sharpton? and jesses showing up where ever a camera is set up..WE as white folks need to take our place and protect our selfs and raise hell when theses rappers put out something about the white and women,,WE can bring changes just as much as al and jessie can...bounty ...edited to add, I think the let the boat sail too early by firing DOM IMUS,his program would have made a great platfore to deal with things like this..bh

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

Isn't it interesting that two of the biggest media whores, Sharpton and Jackson, hide behind the title Reverend?  Both men have an enormous amount of racist trash talk to apologize for but don't hold your breath.  Remember Tawana Brawley, the Duke LaCross players, Crown Heights?  There is a lot more.  The hypocrisy makes your blood boil.  What I don't understand is the absence of credible leaders for the Black community in this country?  Fine, Bill Cosby speaks out as much as he can but he has received an ENORMOUS amount of criticism from the Black community for what he has said.  Where is the next Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? 

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ORIGINAL: BOUNTYHUNTER

I agree with you Katy, you don"t hear a damm thing when those ambulances chasers sharpton and jackson spout off.NOT a word is said from those liberal ass white asses and the flame fanning blacks,Remember the tawamy  deal with sharpton? and jesses showing up where ever a camera is set up..WE as white folks need to take our place and protect our selfs and raise hell when theses rappers put out something about the white and women,,WE can bring changes just as much as al and jessie can...bounty ...edited to add, I think the let the boat sail too early by firing DOM IMUS,his program would have made a great platfore to deal with things like this..bh

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Yes they can be hypocrites

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

Isn't it interesting that two of the biggest media whores, Sharpton and Jackson, hide behind the title Reverend?  Both men have an enormous amount of racist trash talk to apologize for but don't hold your breath.  Remember Tawana Brawley, the Duke LaCross players, Crown Heights?  There is a lot more.  The hypocrisy makes your blood boil.  What I don't understand is the absence of credible leaders for the Black community in this country?  Fine, Bill Cosby speaks out as much as he can but he has received an ENORMOUS amount of criticism from the Black community for what he has said.  Where is the next Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?