The actor Jussie Smollett has taken a page right from the racist playbook of Al Sharpton. He unfortunately has fueled the fire of racial divide in this country by accessing the will of Democrats to prosecute someone before trial.
His claims of an attack by people wearing M.A.G.A. hats is what now appears to be some sort of sick twisted publicity stunt. The so called assailants have been picked up by police and admit that Smollett orchestrated the whole thing.
Al Sharpton launched his career back in the eighties by representing a black woman found naked along the highway in Dutchess County N.Y. late at night, who claimed she had been assaulted by the police. Dutchess County police officers were placed on administrative leave, and there was a concerted attempt by Sharpton and other black leaders to discredit the police as well as the department. Racial tensions in the area grew to a fever pitch, just as the reaction to Smollett’s little stunt is doing. As it turns out the Tawana Brawley was in fact lying both to Sharpton and investigators. In fact the incident was a result of a domestic dispute between Brawley and her family. Both Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley were sued for defamation of character by one of the alleged accused attackers, Steven Pagones, the New York prosecutor. Pagones won his suit against Sharpton and Brawley.
People who perpetuate these kinds of fabrications need to be severely punished. The swift judgmental responses by Liberals eager to indict those accused need to cool their jets and wait for real evidence to emerge before stirring the racial tensions in this country any further. The remarks made by Pelosi and other Congressional leaders on Twitter need to be retracted with apologies to those at whom the remarks were made.