Am I missing something here?
… Sally Yates, a United States attorney, stepped carefully last week when she brought a 54-page indictment against Tyrone Brooks, a state representative from Atlanta who got his start as a street soldier for Dr. King.
"This is a disappointing day," her statement began. "Representative Brooks has done much good in his life, both as a state legislator and civil rights leader."
The New York Times article (see below), by propaganda operative Kim Severson, provides no evidence of Rep. Brooks having done any good, as opposed to … having been a civil rights leader.
The indictment says Mr. Brooks created a personal bank account to divert about $300,000 in donations to the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, of which he has been president since 1993. The money was supposed to finance voter registration drives, programs to fight child hunger and rehabilitate felons and other community efforts.
The government also claims Mr. Brooks used for his personal expenses nearly $800,000 that was donated to Universal Humanities, a charity he formed in 1990. Its purpose, at least on paper, was to help teach literacy and mentor the underprivileged.
Black men like Tyrone Brooks do not give money to blacks, do not teach illiterate blacks how to read and write, and do not mentor blacks, aside from future "civil rights leaders." It is typically nice white ladies like my Aunt Marsi, who teach illiterate blacks how to read and write.
Aunt Marsi has lived in and around Atlanta for over 50 years. She spent much of her adult life working as a literacy volunteer. Volunteer, as in unpaid. We live in a world in which blacks like Tyrone Brooks take the credit for the work of whites like my Aunt Marsi, while doing nothing, and making small fortunes, and reaping the praise of other racist blacks, who would never dream of publicly praising Aunt Marsi or other white literacy volunteers like her.
Tyrone Brooks has spent his life extorting a fortune out of white organizations like Coca-Cola and the Teamsters Union. Said organizations did not for one minute believe that their contributions were going to help teach literacy to blacks; they were whitemail, to ensure that Brooks did not scream racism.
"Civil rights leader" is a euphemism for "racist black thief."
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Civil Rights Firebrand's Fraud Case in Georgia Now Has Others Treading Softly
Raymond McCrea Jones for The New York Times
State Representative Tyrone Brooks, left, on Thursday. He pleaded not guilty this week.
By KIM SEVERSON
Published: May 23, 2013
New York Times
MARIETTA, Ga. — In the state where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and a legacy of lynching still informs politics, it is never easy to suggest that a leader of the civil rights movement might be a thief.
[Why not? If, as she later says, "the last public lynching" was in 1946, Severson is being deeply dishonest, when she asserts that "a legacy of lynching still informs politics."
What she is doing is framing the article within the racial socialist universe of discourse. Translation: Sixty-seven years after the last white-on-black lynching, blacks are still using "lynching" to politically whitemail whites.
Actually, there have been no lack of lynchings in recent years in Georgia, but they're the "wrong kind," and as such, Kim Severson would never count them. For instance, in March 2005, black supremacist Brian Nichols lynched four whites in Atlanta.]
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The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a Democratic presidential candidate, with State Representative Tyrone Brooks in Atlanta in 1984.
That is why Sally Yates, a United States attorney, stepped carefully last week when she brought a 54-page indictment against Tyrone Brooks, a state representative from Atlanta who got his start as a street soldier for Dr. King.
"This is a disappointing day," her statement began. "Representative Brooks has done much good in his life, both as a state legislator and civil rights leader."
She did not send United States marshals to arrest Mr. Brooks, 67. Instead, he was allowed to show up in court on his own this week when he pleaded not guilty to 30 counts of mail, wire and tax fraud.
In a scheme that the federal government says stretches back to the mid-1990s, Mr. Brooks is accused of using a fake charity and a secret bank account to siphon about a million dollars in donations from corporations like Coca-Cola, organizations like the Teamsters and individual donors.
With it, the government asserts, he paid for his cable television service, home repairs, dry cleaning, shoes and a host of other personal expenses, including cash gifts to his family.
The money was supposed to help support two organizations dedicated to furthering the cause of African-Americans.
The indictment says Mr. Brooks created a personal bank account to divert about $300,000 in donations to the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, of which he has been president since 1993. The money was supposed to finance voter registration drives, programs to fight child hunger and rehabilitate felons and other community efforts.
The government also claims Mr. Brooks used for his personal expenses nearly $800,000 that was donated to Universal Humanities, a charity he formed in 1990. Its purpose, at least on paper, was to help teach literacy and mentor the underprivileged.
The group exists in name only, according to the indictment. There are no offices, staff or evidence of actual programming. The board lists a number of individuals, some of whom had no idea they were on it.
The chairwoman is listed as Emma Gresham, 88, who had been a teacher and, for 17 years, the mayor of Keysville, Ga., a town near Augusta with fewer than 200 people, the majority of them African-American.
Reached at her home, Ms. Gresham could not recall the organization but said she had done literacy work for Mr. Brooks.
[Investigate her, too!]
He has long been a hero in Keysville, where a street is named after him. In the 1980s, he helped get Ms. Gresham elected mayor in a town that was all but dying. It had no running water and a high level of illiteracy. [It still has a high level of illteracy.]
There had not been a mayor in 50 years. After a legal fight led by Mr. Brooks, Ms. Gresham became the first black to hold the office and greatly improved daily life for residents. "Tyrone taught us how to march," she said. [Translation: 'Tyrone taught us how to shake down white folks.']
Mr. Brooks said he began the Universal Humanities charity to teach people in Keysville to read. [LOL.]
In 1961, Mr. Brooks was 15. Caught up in the urgency of the civil rights movement, he walked into the offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and volunteered. Six years later, Dr. King hired him.
Mr. Brooks claims to have been arrested over civil disobedience and other acts of protest 66 times.
At the urging of civil rights leaders, he became a state lawmaker in 1980. There he met Roy Barnes, a fellow Democrat who would later become governor. The two worked closely to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state flag, which had incorporated the design in 1956. The move contributed in part to the governor's defeat in 2002. [Good!] Mr. Barnes, a lawyer, is representing Mr. Brooks free of charge.
At a news conference in Mr. Barnes's office here on Thursday, he said Mr. Brooks was guilty only of bad bookkeeping. With Mr. Brooks silently standing at his side, Mr. Barnes explained that the lawmaker had worked for the two charitable groups without fee. [Only a defense attorney could turn the truth upside down like that. Brooks takes every dime that flows into his scams, but Barnes calls that working "without fee."] The donated money he used for personal expenses was essentially in lieu of a salary. [In other words, Barnes is saying that Brooks did take a "fee."]
"His life is about serving, not amassing great wealth," Mr. Barnes said. "If his life had been about wealth, he could afford to pay me." [Of course, he could afford to pay you!]
Mr. Barnes has also helped Mr. Brooks with one of his most enduring passions: solving what is widely considered to be the last public lynching in Georgia.
It happened in the summer of 1946 near Moore's Ford Bridge, about an hour's drive northeast of Atlanta in what was then the heart of cotton country. [Ah, yes, we must always use ancient white-on-black lynchings to distract the public from the daily black-on-white lynchings.]
More than a dozen men hauled two black couples from their car, dragged them down a bank and shot them. One of the slain men had just returned from service in World War II, and the murders contributed to President Harry S. Truman's order to desegregate the military.
The lynching was investigated by the F.B.I. but remains unsolved. In 2001, Mr. Barnes, then governor, ordered the case reopened. Each year since 2005, Mr. Brooks has led a dramatic re-enactment of the lynching. He plans to do so again in July. [Apparently, we need whites to re-enact black-on-white lynchings.]
On the steps of the federal courthouse in Atlanta on Wednesday, local leaders of the N.A.A.C.P. gathered to suggest that the indictment might be linked to Mr. Brooks's work on the case as well as his long history of political action in Georgia. [That sort of shameless racist bull is par for the course form the NAACP.]
Edward O. DuBose, president of the state chapter, would not comment on whether he thought Mr. Brooks had indeed misappropriated money that might have otherwise helped the disadvantaged. The court, Mr. DuBose said, would decide Mr. Brooks's guilt or innocence. [Yes, why let the truth get in the way of your lies, Mr. DuBose.]
But Mr. DuBose and others said federal money might be better spent further investigating the lynching as well as financing the 2008 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
"We're concerned that our tax money and resources are being used to target one man," Mr. DuBose said. [In other words, law enforcement resources should only be spent investigating whites, and never investigating back criminals.]
Mr. Brooks continues to have support in other African-American circles here, although the fiery rhetoric that came forth when news of the federal investigation leaked this year has been tamped down. [In other words, they've resigned themselves to his guilt, and are cutting their losses.]
"Tyrone walks tall and has a lot of respect," the Rev. Tim McDonald III said. "We're walking carefully, of course, and a little bit quieter. But what we call the street committee is still behind Tyrone." ["The street committee"? Sounds like a lynch mob to me.]
A version of this article appeared in print on May 24, 2013, on page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: Civil Rights Firebrand's Fraud Case in Georgia Now Has Others Treading Softly.
1 comment:
Clarence Thomas told the people investigating him for the Supreme Court that they were trying to lynch him.
Blacks use the race card to explain why they have done their dirty deed, then blacks play the crazy card as to why they shouldn't go to their second home,prison, and now we have the lynch card being played by blacks.
The deck is stacked.
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