It Wasn't Me (Featuring Ricardo..Johnson)

"It Wasn't Me: was the 2002 hit by Kingston, Jamaica reggae singer Shaggy or as his Mama named him, Orville Richard Burrell.

For those of you who may not know the song...it was, in fact, him.

Ashley Todd's, claim regarding a man who looked a lot like Shaggy, had robbed, sexually assaulted and carved a backwards "B" (presumably for Barack) on her face resonated with just about the same tenor of truth as Shaggy's claims.

It was, in fact, NOT him.

I have always felt that claiming racism in personal or professional situations was always something to be done very judiciously because every time that card was played and played wrong it hurts all of those people who are fighting when racism is, in fact, at play.

This rule should most definitely be in effect with respect to sexual assault. So, seeing Ms. Todd being carted away in cuffs yesterday delighted me.

I know many have talked about her possible mental problems and considering she worked for the national collegiate Republican Party, insanity may certainly be a resonable defense.

I, however, have a much larger beef...

John McCain and the Republicans have said the actions of a couple of knuckle heads trying to scam a few more dollars by registering such luminaries as M. Mouse of Anaheim, California and Orlando, Florida (he homestead in Florida for tax reasons) and Mr. Anthony Romo, of the Dallas Football Cowboys is nothing... N O T H I N G, in comparison to this woman's ruse.

In 1994 when Susan Smith said a Black man had carjacked her and drove away with her sons still in the car, many Black comedians joked that that was the first clue that it wasn't true because most Black Men wont drive off with their own children.

Now as a Black Father of four beautiful children for whom I drive (more than I'd like) often, I would like to say for the record that's not entirely true, but it was a good joke regarding a historically tragic event.

Ms. Todd's lie about me and all my brothers, father and sons who look like me is not nearly as horrific, but the fact that the RNC has not come out to denounce this women and her behavior with all of its inherent complications had a much greater chance at "tearing away at the great fabric of this nation" as John McCain said in the last debate than ACORN's little voter registration snafus.

This time it was not, in fact, me and the Police and at least some of the American public stopped, checked and got it right BEFORE they got the rope.

There may be Hope after all.