Jackson and Sharpton: When did they get it right?

[Onlooker]

The right wing constantly brings up Tawana Brawley and now the Duke lacrosse team scandal to discredit people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. But, that's two cases in twenty years where they apparently got it wrong. I know they've fought for the rights of many others, and assume they are more often right than wrong. Does anyone know of a link or good examples of where Jackson and Sharpton stood up for a victim who turned out to be an indisputable victim?

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Try to Wikepedia them and google as well.

there is bound to be tons of info.
I know Jackson spoke once at Operah's school as a teenager and he changed her life.

[EST]

2. Both of them were decidedly against the national government's

sticking its jib into the that poor, unfortunate case in Florida concerning who had the responsibility for disconnecting her life support. They were correct then and that's just one, national case.

[Dorian Gray]

6. Really?

I thought that Jackson was on the other side of that case. I am probably misremembering, but I truly thought that he was on the other side. I even remember some wonderment on this web site because of that.

[EST]

10. Perhaps it is I who is in error...

[Dorian Gray]

11. Either way, it shouldn't matter that much

There were enough liberals who were unsure of where they stood on that issue to truly warrant calling it a Conservative v. Liberal stance. And, as I said, I could be misremembering the information. Though I found the situation to be a compelling story and proof-positive to have a living will made up, I didn't follow it strictly.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Sharpton has brought attention to numerous...

... police abuses in the NYC area: Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, and many others. Also racial abuses of blacks by whites: example:Michael Griffith. These folks are "indisputable victims".

Unfortunately, he shoots from the hip and has occasionally gotten things (real) fouled up. Eg. Tawana Brawley,( libeled an innocent man) and the famed "white interlopers in Harlem" statement that preceded an arson in which there were fatalities. Literally, an 'incendiary' remark.

[Solo_in_MD]

4. I keep being told that he jas a judgement against him pending

from the Tawana Brawley case that he has never paid. Is that true?

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Apparently, no. From wikipedia:

>>>On July 13, 1998, after an eight-month-long trial, a jury found that Sharpton, Alton H. Maddox and lawyer C. Vernon Mason had defamed Pagones. On July 29, 1998 the jury awarded Pagones $345,000 in damages. Sharpton was found liable for $65,000 of the total damages, Maddox for $95,000 and Mason for $185,000. Sharpton still refused to apologize to Pagones, and had one of his friends pay the damage amount.

Pagones went on to become an assistant state attorney general.>>>>

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Well, it was paid *for* him. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

8. You go to white racists for the truth about black civil rights figures? You're a genius.

[Annces]

9. He helped get the release of American soldiers held in Yugoslavia

""He can now add the release of three US soldiers held as prisoners-of-war in Yugoslavia to his impressive CV. ""


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