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Al Sharpton: The Democrat’s David Duke [Jeff Jacoby 2003, countering Lott smear]
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/index.php?news=2411 [linked from Newsbuster]

1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child. Sharpton rails against the “diamond merchants” [aka Jews]. Hundreds riot and surround rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, stabbing him to death.

1995: Sharpton whips up mob over a rent increase [note that the Jewish owner was forced into raising rent]. Infamous “White Interloper” speech. Protesters burst in and shoot four employees point-blank and set store on fire. Seven employees die in fire.

[For the record, trimmed down and largely rephrased]