Rev. Al Sharpton: The Race Hustler as Kingmaker
In the Crown Heights riots in 1991, Sharpton engaged in inflammatory antisemitic rhetoric, stating: “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.” In 1994, referring to gays, he said, “White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” (Now, of course, he says he is opposed to homophobia.) And referring to Mitt Romney and his Mormon religion, Sharpton said, only five years ago, “as for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation.”
This is the man who Milbank writes is “arguably the most prominent civil rights figure in the country…[and] a kingmaker in Democratic politics.” If Milbank is right about Sharpton — and the evidence indicates that he is — it reflects just how much the old-fashioned, centrist liberalism of the past no longer exists, and just how far to the extreme left the Democratic Party has fallen.
As for Sharpton’s role in the Trayvon Martin case, he assumes, as he did a quarter of a century ago when the Tawana Brawley case took place, that Martin was killed by Zimmerman because the man who murdered young Martin was a white racist, motivated by racist hate. Mark Hemingway points out Sharpton’s role in the Weekly Standard:
Despite scant evidence that race was a factor in Martin’s death—George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin while on a neighborhood watch patrol, is Hispanic and claims the killing was self-defense—Sharpton came to Florida to tape on location, thundering that Martin was a victim of racial injustice. Not surprisingly, Sharpton promulgated at least one glaring untruth, claiming Martin was in the morgue for three days before his parents were informed he’d been killed. “How do you leave this kid in the room like he’s a worthless piece of meat?” he railed. However, this is contradicted by the fact Martin’s parents were discussing their son’s killing on a local news broadcast the next day.
The facts don’t count with Reverend Al. They don’t have to, when a writer like Milbank has told us he has “mellowed,” and even Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises feel the need to sponsor his activism and sing his praises. With Sharpton manning the barricades and continuing to play the race card in the Trayvon Martin shooting, one has to ask: can George Zimmerman be expected to get a fair hearing by the court or a fair trial in such an atmosphere?
– the “Rev.”?
Ron, I think you misunderstand why liberals and Democrats embrace Sharpton. It’s not that they agree with his politics–it’s that he delivers an enormous gift to them: the political ghettoization of African-Americans. Black radicals like Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Ron Dellums, Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson (pere et fils) foster and perpetuate racial mistrust and alienation among Blacks, encouraging them to shun mainstream politics and interact with it only through the intermediation of the radical leaders themselves. This turns the Black population into a controllable voting bloc–a bulk political commodity whose owners, the radical Black leadership, turn around and reliably deliver it to liberal Democrats, asking only for status, respect and protection in return.
This is a great deal for the Democrats, who get millions of virtually guaranteed votes in every election. And it’s a great deal for Black radical leaders, who can cash in their liberal Democrat-endorsed status for all kinds of perks, from plum committee assignments for politicians to cable show hosting gigs and cover for dubious financial practices. The only real losers are these leaders’ African-American constituents, whose abysmally corrupt and neglectful political leadership only worsens their economic and political powerlessness–and the rest of the American people, of course, who dislike this kind of racial polarization, and only wish that the Democrats and their radical allies would stop encouraging it.
I also find it amazing and depressing that someone like Al Sharpton is embraced by the Democrats. This humorous cartoon at http://drawfortruth.com/2012/04/05/al-sharpton-got-hate/ sums him up pretty well.
If you need just one sign to prove to yourself that the world is on the cusp of the end of civilization, the fact that Al Sharpton has power and influence is it.
First, your premise is laughable at worse and feculent at best. If you studied history, you would have some understanding that what the Rev. is involved is a consequence of a culture of privilege that has only changed the laws and given them new names to continue the goals of the black codes. A country who believed and still believes as William Holcombe’s wrote in 1861 that “The Negro is not a white man with black skin, but, if not a distinct species, at least a permanent variety of the human race. He has physical, ethnological, and psychological peculiarities which differentiate him from all other races of men; and it is by these, and not by a priori theories of any kind, that his moral, social, and political status is to be determined….. The brain and nervous system of the Negro is smaller and more coarsely organized than in the other varieties of man. The brain substance is, on an average, nine cubic inches less in bulk than that of a Caucasian.”
History has never lied. Sad truth is that Black men are by law walking dead in America
People are often bemused at now the Nazis came to power in a modern country full of basically reasonable people. The fact is that they were radicalized – softened up by WW I and then made to believe that blaming equaled a solution – the final solution. This is how normal people act like they’re nuts, or stand by when other people eventually do so. No one in the world believed something like that could ever happen. Despite revisionist histories, entities like the BBC didn’t even believe initial reports out of Maidenek concentration camp, they were so horrible and unlikely.
In order to prevent such madness, a culture has to do two things. The first is recognize madness, the second is to do something about it.
Mainstreaming odious Nazis like Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton and Eric Michael Dyson is an absurdity on both counts that challenges Through the Looking Glass. The disdain and even hatred for white people by this obnoxious trio is palpable – except to people who have lost the ability to reason. Those three are the tip of the iceberg. The racist diatribes that daily appear in the black press are almost unbelievable to read in the year 2012 and in the United States of America. They say be careful what you wish for and sometimes what you are willing to put up with amounts to the same thing.
Americans have become so stupid they import Muslims to agitate and kill, and give racists TV shows and all in the name of one motto: “I am not a racialist.” I leave the multiple ironies of that remark for you to parse. There is not a single doubt in my mind a lunatic like Louis Farrakhan is a Hitler without an army and this Left and racialist community not only cozens but even admires him. The Trayon Martin case is practically a microcosm of the Sudetenland dust up. Wake up and start writing your politicians and TV stations and tell them to show the door to the Congressional Black Caucus that squats like a disgusting spider in the heart of our gov’t and rabble rousing racists who lie and distort by race 5 days a week.
That’s why having Alan West and other Black conservatives as members of that august group is a good thing.
It completely flummoxes them and leaves them no alternative but to become inclusive in an organization that had otherwise excluded opposing views.
The majority of Americans are tolerant just as the Brits pre WWII were tolerant with old Adolph.They secretly though that the Gallic French were going too far with their War Reparation demands and they were not wrong. They were willing to see the other guys point of view or at least agreeing to differ. Maybe its an Anglo Saxon thing. Muslims, Blacks, Left Wing moonbats and anarchists see this and exploit it for all its worth. Until in the end the ‘tolerant’ people have had enough injustice piled on them and they crack and respond and being warriors at heart that response does not end until the injustice is wiped off the map.
You have been warned Race Hustlers.
I don’t understand why Sharpton was crowned King of the civil rights hucksters. He’s not very articulate or smart, but there he is holding forth daily on MSNBC while he’s out there stirring up race hatred and leading the lynch mob against Zimmerman. Jesse Jackson and company must be very jealous-why isn’t he the King?
Zimmerman is probably going to be found innocent according to the Florida Stand Your Ground Law and people like Sharpton are going to be discredited like they were with Tawana Brawley. But will anyone care? Probably not. It’s truely shocking how little the truth or history seem to matter. Obama has encouraged this since he is one of the biggest perpetuators.
we’re a free country. people are allowed to demand, to want, to yearn, to be angry, and to be annoying. if you do not want to listen to it, change the channel. it works for me. when it comes to hucksters, sharpton et al are a pretty small segment of the bullsh*t population, which grows exponentially daily.
Further proof that Fox snooze is lurching left.
A question that needs answering is this “Why are ALL the racist Rabble Rousing Race Hustlers without exception BLACK.”
Sharpton is a race-baiting, professional Afro-American. His record is repulsive. If this is what Afro-Americans look for to represent them, there is no hope for them now and for generations to come.
Can George Zimmerman be expected to get a fair hearing by the court or a fair trial in such an atmosphere?
YES. This is America.
An Abbreviated Round-Up of Gross Incivility in Obamaland
We all want to be civil, right?
Just last year, with the deepest sincerity, our president implored Americans to engage in more civil discourse, to be more tolerant of disparate opinions and less confrontational, to “sharpen our instincts for empathy,” and to search our souls for answers to America’s disunity following the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords.
Either many of Barack Hussein Obama’s rabid supporters didn’t get that civility memo or they interpreted it as a veiled call to arms since they immediately ratcheted up their uncivil, vile, mean-spirited invective after the president’s Tucson speech in total disregard of his heart-felt appeal.
Almost three years later, with a national election looming, Obama’s armies have taken to even more reprehensible rhetoric and, to supplement their words, have launched an unprecedented wave of deadly violence.
Cynics like Robin Leach foolishly think the president of the United States craves that gross incivility and mindless violence serve as tools to create civil unrest and a possible race war to help pave his way to a second term. He may be right.
A few selected instances reflecting the ratcheting but precious little soul-searching:
. A tourist in Baltimore was assaulted by a black man and, adding severe insult to his injuries, he was beaten, robbed, and stripped naked on a public street by a crowd of blacks who later boasted about the crime they had committed.
. Former world heavyweight boxing champion and disgraced, convicted felon Mike Tyson weighed in on the Trayvon Martin affair by opining that “It’s a disgrace that man [George Zimmerman] hasn’t been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested–the fact that he hasn’t been shot yet is a disgrace.”
. Obama buddy, black Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree, suggested on Al Sharpton’s National Network Convention that whites would be given preference had a black killed a white man instead of the half-hispanic Zimmerman killing Trayvon Martin. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21516.)