Supporting Jussie Smollett & Tawana Brawley Wasn't Wrong. Discrediting Black Victims Is.
In this op-ed, Jason Nichols, a progressive political and social analyst and lecturer of African American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, calls out conservative media's comparisons of Jussie Smollett and Tawana Brawley, and explains why the Black community was right to believe their claims.
As the eyes of the nation are on Chicago and the case of Jussie Smollett, the Chicago Police Department now claims the young Empire actor spearheaded a hate crime hoax along with two other acquaintances. When the claims it was a hoax were still coming from anonymous sources, conservative media — who often decry the use of anonymous sources from the White House — wasted no time in jumping on the inconsistencies in Smollett’s story. And in a gleeful rebuke of the actor, the right-wing media has begun to invoke the name of Tawana Brawley.
more numbnuttery:
https://www.bustle.com/p/supporting...-wrong-discrediting-black-victims-is-15987443
