So, apparently, does Congressman Tom Delay because he is sponsoring a moment of silence on the floor of the House to protest the decision of Evergreen College in Washington to invite Mumia to give a commencement address by satellite from death row. The truth is this is really, really, really important. In 1987, during the Tawana Brawley hoax, the Reverend Al Sharpton dismissed objections that he was a craven liar and con man by saying we are trying to build a movement here. For about a week, this ugly hate crime was pinned on white racists. It turned out black students did it to hilight racism on campus.
Similar crimes are increasingly frequent on college campuses.
Gay groups fake gay-bashing incidents. Black groups write racist graffiti. Remember, we re building a movement and calling attention to serious problems in our society. The mere fact that the evidence of the problem they are calling peoples attention to is very often a staged fraud is irrelevant. I first noticed this in a book I reviewed a long time ago written by a national campus agitator named Paul Rogat Loeb.