A nation of Tawana Brawleys

Back in the late '80s, a young, sweat-suited Al Sharpton jumped to the defense of a black teenage girl named Tawana Brawley, who claimed she had been gang raped by a group of white police officers. As we saw in most TV interviews during his failed run for President in 2004, he's yet to live down this decision to this day.

I was reminded of this fact the other day, when I read somewhere that usual suspects Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte had jumped to the defense of crazed black Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, not so much because they were convinced she was in the right, but because they were "here to support our sister," or something to that effect.

Also, I couldn't help but notice the similarity between many black folks' response to the Cynthia McKinney incident and the case of the "stripper" who was allegedly raped by a lacrosse team at Duke University. Legions of you d-bags jumped all over me because I merely suggested that this broad was a ho by trade and hoes do have a tendency to get raped on the job.

How does the black community really stand to benefit from jumping to defense of the likes of cop-beater Cynthia McKinney and the ho that got it tag-team-style in North Carolina? Furthermore, black women are always going on about how worthless black men are just because we can't find a job. They shouldn't act surprised when we choose to look the other way in situations like these.