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Calling Al Sharpton's Bluff

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Old news, but goes to show what a hypocrite Al Sharpton is.

WASHINGTON -- Al Sharpton dared Steven Pagones to "sue us." What happened next offers a lesson to anyone who lets their mouth write checks that their evidence can't cash.

At least Tawana has somebody that believes her Sharpton's challenge came in the midst of the notorious Tawana Brawley affair a decade ago. A 15-year-old black girl in upstate New York claimed a gang of white men, including Pagones, a local prosecutor, raped her, scrawled racial epithets on her torso and left her in a rubbish bag with dog excrement.

The case quickly turned into one of the most explosive and divisive racial eruptions of our time. A grand jury in 1988 concluded Brawley's claims were a hoax, concocted to account for her whereabouts to a hot-tempered stepfather. The jury specifically exonerated Pagones. Yet, Sharpton refused to back down.

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