America's #1 Crusader for Justice - Al Sharpton

[phillybear 366]

Sigh. I'm pissed tonight. Copied and pasted....

 

The Crimes of Reverend Al Sharpton

 

TAX EVASION: In a 1988 interview, Sharpton said he saw no reason why blacks should pay taxes. “If we do not have a justice system that protects us, what are we paying for?” Sharpton has faced multiple charges—and one conviction—of tax evasion.

 

TAWANA BRAWLY: 1987. Al Sharpton, during the infamous Tawana Brawley case, falsely accused a former assistant district attorney of ****** and sodomizing Ms. Brawley. Young Tawana stated that white racists abducted, *****, and sodomized her, scrawling the initials “KKK” on her in human feces. A grand jury later found the entire incident a complete hoax. Most likely, Ms. Brawley, afraid of punishment for staying out too late, fabricated the entire story. This did not stop Reverend Al Sharpton, who accused Pagones an assistant district attorney, of the crime. “We stated openly that Steven Pagones did it. If we’re lying, sue us, so we can go into court with you and prove you did it. Sue us—sue us right now.”

 

Pagones did. After receiving death threats, and threats against his child, Pagones sued Sharpton and two others for defamation. A jury unanimously concluded that Sharpton defamed Pagones, ordering Sharpton to pay $65,000 to Pagones. The Reverend promptly announced his intention not to pay. A couple years later, Sharpton’s buddies passed the hat and paid off Sharpton’s debt, which totaled $87,000 with interest and penalties. To this day, never having paid one penny of his own to Pagones, Sharpton refuses to apologize, “I did what I believed….They are asking me to grovel. They want black children to say they forced a black man coming out of the hard-core ghetto to his knees….Once you begin bending, it’s ‘did you bend today?’ or ‘I missed the apology, say it again.’ Once you start compromising, you lose respect for yourself.”

 

CENTRAL PARK JOGGER: In 1989 “the jogger,” a young white woman, was monstrously ***** and nearly beaten to death in Central Park. Sharpton insisted—despite the defendants’ confessions—that her black attackers were innocent, modern-day Scottsboro Boys trapped in “a fit of racial hysteria.” Sharpton charged that the jogger’s boyfriend did it, and organized protests outside the courthouse, chanting, “The boyfriend did it!” and denouncing the victim as “######!” He brought Tawana Brawley to the trial, to show her “white justice” and arranged for her to meet the attackers. Sharpton appealed for a psychiatrist to examine the victim, generously saying, “It doesn’t even have to be a black psychiatrist….We’re not endorsing the damage to the girl—if there was this damage.” (While it doesn’t excuse his calling the victim a “######” and denigrating any damage to her, or his accusations against the boyfriend, the convictions of the accused were eventually vacated, despite their taped confessions, after another man—whose DNA matched—confessed to the **** in 2002.)

 

CROWN HEIGHTS/ “DIAMOND MERCHANTS”: In 1991, Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old black child was killed in a traffic accident in Crown Heights (in Brooklyn), when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton turned it into a racial incident. Sharpton led 400 protesters through the Jewish section of Crown Heights, with one protester holding a sign that read, “The White Man Is the Devil.” There were four nights of rock- and bottle-throwing, and a young Talmudic scholar was surrounded by a mob shouting, “Kill the Jew” and stabbed to death. A hundred others were injured. Sharpton said, “The world will tell us that [Gavin Cato] was killed by accident….What type of city do we have that would allow politics to rise above the blood of innocent babies?…Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights….All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise. Pay for your deeds.” Later Sharpton said, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

 

ARAFAT: When Sharpton announced a 2001 trip to the Middle East, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach helped plan his itinerary. Sharpton, according to the Rabbi, promised not to meet with Yassir Arafat, yet only days later, Jewish New Yorkers opened the morning paper to see a smiling Arafat and Sharpton, meeting and shaking hands in Israel. Furious, Rabbi Boteach said, “Prior to our recent trip to Israel, U.S. black leader Reverend Al Sharpton and I discussed several times that there were to be no meetings with Arab or Palestinian leaders, not because I wished to set preconditions for our travel, but because the express objective of our mission was to show solidarity with Israeli victims of terror. The idea was to provide a magnanimous gesture of friendship and solidarity with the Jewish nation that would hopefully have strong reverberations for the relationship of the Jewish and black communities back home.”

 

FREDDY’S FASHION MART/”WHITE INTERLOPER”: 1995. A Jewish store owner in Harlem was accused of driving a black record store owner out of business, when the United House of Prayer, one of the largest black landlords on 125th Street, raised the rent on the Fashion Mart owned by a Jew, Freddy Harari, who then raised the rent on his subtenant, Sikhulu Shange, who ran a record store. At one of many rallies meant to scare the Jewish owner away, Sharpton said, “…There is a systematic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear…that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Following a demonstration three months later, one of the protestors, a black man, stormed Freddy’s Fashion Mart with a pistol, screaming, “It’s on now! All blacks out!” In addition to shooting, he set fire to the building, eventually killing himself and seven others. Initially, Sharpton denied having spoken at any rallies. When tapes surfaced, he said, “What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?” Eventually, he apologized—but only for saying “white,” not “interloper.”

 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: During the “Million Man March” in Washington, civil rights “activist” Al Sharpton thundered, “O.J. is home, but Mumia Abu Jamal ain’t home. And we won’t stop till all of our people that need a chance in an awkward and unbalanced criminal justice system can come home.”

 

OUT OF THE KING MOVEMENT: Although he was 14 when Martin Luther King was assassinated, Sharpton claims he “came out of the King movement.” Sharpton once explained, “I was on some show this week, and people said, ‘Why don’t you just let it go? Why don’t y’all just get over it?’ Get over what? Get over Dr. King dying? Get over Medger Evers dying? Get over Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner dying? Get over those four girls in Birmingham dying? We are never gonna get over it, and we are never gonna let you forget it!”

 

FBI TAPES/COCAINE: In 2002, HBO aired a 19-year-old FBI surveillance of Sharpton with self-described mobster Michael Franzese and an undercover FBI agent posing as a Latin American businessman. The three were discussing promoting boxing matches and musical events. HBO’s “Real Sports” got a hold of a hidden camera video that shows undercover agent Victor Quintana posing as a drug dealer trying to convince Sharpton to play a middleman in a big cocaine buy.

 

Sharpton asks the undercover agent, “What kind of time limit are we dealing with?”

 

“Coke?” the agent asks.

 

“Yeah.” Sharpton says.

 

The phony drug dealer says, “Could be about the same time we have 4 million coming to us.”

 

Sharpton: “End of April?”

 

“End of April. Six weeks from now. Is that a good time you think?” the agent asks.

 

“Probably,” Sharpton replies.

 

Later on, the undercover agent offers Sharpton a finder's fee for help with the drug deal and says to Sharpton, “I can get pure coke for about $35,000 a kilo ... Every kilogram we bring in, $3,500 to you. How does that sound?” Sharpton nods in response.

 

The deal never went down, and Sharpton has said he was just playing along because he was scared of the would-be kingpin. “And I'm in his office. I don't know whether this man is armed. I don't know what's going on. So I kind of say, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ to get out of there,” Sharpton claimed the tape was leaked by law enforcement officials to disrupt his 2004 presidential run, and he sued HBO, its parent company AOL Time Warner, and several individuals who worked on the story. No charges were ever brought against Sharpton because of the tape, which was allegedly made to get Sharpton to act as an informant for the feds into an investigation into corruption by Don King and the boxing industry. The HBO report featured former Mafia captain Michael Franzese saying that the FBI was on the right track when it targeted Sharpton in a sting back in 1983 to try and root out corruption in boxing.

 

Sharpton admitted in 1988 that he informed for the government in order “to get rid of drugs and election fraud” in black neighborhoods. He denied informing on civil rights leaders and organized crime figures.

 

FBI TAPES/DONATIONS: After Sharpton’s name surfaced on wiretaps in an unrelated Philadelphia City Hall corruption case, the FBI launched a probe into Sharpton’s fund-raising for his failed 2004 presidential run. The FBI secretly videotaped Sharpton on May 9, 2003, pocketing campaign donations from two “shady fund-raisers” in a NY City hotel room, and then demanding $25,000 more. The two fund-raisers were La-Van Hawkins and the late Ronald White. Hawkins is currently on trial in Philadelphia on corruption charges. White was going to be indicted, but died before charges were brought. A later wiretap recorded Hawkins telling White that they had raised more than $140,000 for Sharpton the previous quarter, but Hawkins was concerned that Sharpton had only reported about $50,000 to the Federal Election Commission, as required by law. Sharpton said the allegations were a “politically motivated smokescreen” to hide the fact the Justice Department is out to get him. He ripped the probe and the secret videotaping, saying, “Can you imagine what would happen if it was a white presidential candidate?”

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Yer a racist and should be fired from whatever job you hold

[Angry White Male 0]

Yer a racist and should be fired from whatever job you hold

You have got to be kidding.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

I was thinking today that the crap that Falwell is getting today pales in comparison to what will happen when Sharpton dies. I know that I will raise a glass when that racist kicks off.

[remote controller 143]

Sharpton is a pussbag on a crack whores a$$

[lechuza 0]

sharpton hopefully will burn in hell

[remote controller 143]

sharpton hopefully will burn in hell

No worries there

[Lionsjunkie 1]

Got this SOB in my death pool...die already you racist scumbag

[redtodd 7]

He is a promoter of racism.

[lechuza 0]

He is a promoter of racism.

 

of course thats how he makes his money

[Big Blue 06 195]

There are few people I hate more than Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. They will get theirs in the long run.

[Mack 1 6]

Brotha Al is a true demagogue whose role is to place issues affecting Blacks into the public consciousness. Both he and Jesse have untraditional ways of accomplishing that goal, but the mere fact that a thread is started about one or the other every week on this board shows me that his "schtick" is working.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

Brotha Al is a true demagogue whose role is to place issues affecting Blacks into the public consciousness. Both he and Jesse have untraditional ways of accomplishing that goal, but the mere fact that a thread is started about one or the other every week on this board shows me that his "schtick" is working.

I am sure that people felt the same way about Hitler putting issues into the public consciousness

 

There are positive outcomes of debate and dialogue and there are negative outcomes. Sharpton and Jackson have taken things to the point that whenever they speak, I know that I am probably going to be disagree with everything that they said. That polarization of views is unhealthy for race relations.

 

They are not doing their "schtick" to promote Black awareness. They (Sharpton more than Jackson) are doing it to promote racial divide and to make money off of that divide.

[Franknbeans 46]

I am sure that people felt the same way about Hitler putting issues into the public consciousness

 

There are positive outcomes of debate and dialogue and there are negative outcomes. Sharpton and Jackson have taken things to the point that whenever they speak, I know that I am probably going to be disagree with everything that they said. That polarization of views is unhealthy for race relations.

 

They are not doing their "schtick" to promote Black awareness. They (Sharpton more than Jackson) are doing it to promote racial divide and to make money off of that divide.

Seriously, how do Al and Jesse make money? Do they get paid to make appearances? It seems like the biggest scam going.

[Mack 1 6]

I am sure that people felt the same way about Hitler putting issues into the public consciousness

Sharpton and Jesse both have their detractors, but comparing them to a race-cleansing murderer????

 

Your extreme hyperbole is duly noted.

[Toro 1]

Brotha Al is a true demagogue whose role is to place issues affecting Blacks into the public consciousness. Both he and Jesse have untraditional ways of accomplishing that goal, but the mere fact that a thread is started about one or the other every week on this board shows me that his "schtick" is working.

 

His "schtick" is basically alienating what goodwill the average white person does have toward the struggles of the african american community.

[Mack 1 6]

His "schtick" is basically alienating what goodwill the average white person does have toward the struggles of the african american community.

I personally don't think he cares about that. His in-your-face approach and unpopular stance (at least as far as some white folks are concerned) on certain issues is meant to create awareness, dialogue and (maybe) a sensible solution to a problem.

 

Wheather or not the "average white person" loses any goodwill toward Blacks' struggles is probably the least of his concerns.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

I personally don't think he cares about that. His in-your-face approach and unpopular stance (at least as far as some white folks are concerned) on certain issues is meant to create awareness, dialogue and (maybe) a sensible solution to a problem.

 

Wheather or not the "average white person" loses any goodwill toward Blacks' struggles is probably the least of his concerns.

 

Which is the problem. If Whites are keeping the Black man down, then why would you not want to try to appeal to those whites who are most likely to be receptive to that dialogue. Instead, Sharpton chooses to alienate people and to make the divide between the races larger.

 

You can think that "Brotha Al" is a good man, but I see nothing that he does as "creating awareness, dialogue, and (maybe) a sensible solution to the problem". I see him doing the exact opposite because he creates animosity, removes the possibility of any real dialogue, and is making the problem bigger.

[phillybear 366]

I personally don't think he cares about that. His in-your-face approach and unpopular stance (at least as far as some white folks are concerned) on certain issues is meant to create awareness, dialogue and (maybe) a sensible solution to a problem.

 

The main problem is that Al Sharpton has no credibility among anyone but the media. I speculate that the folks that hate Sharpton the most are black people.

 

While I support Sharpton's right to say stupid things and make a living off the donations of people, selling drugs, and not paying taxes, I have an issue with Sharpton being portrayed as a champion of good against evil. I can think of 5 billion people more qualified for that role.

 

He is supporting arbitrary censorship. That is his current issue. What else is there to say?

[Sergeant Bri 0]

He sure seems to have a talent for tilting at the wrong windmills.

[Mack 1 6]

....If Whites are keeping the Black man down, then why would you not want to try to appeal to those whites who are most likely to be receptive to that dialogue....

Sharpton, Jesse and eveyone else of their ilk aren't appealling to whites as much as they are simply informing (in their own unique way) the public of various ills (real or imagined) toward Blacks. Their platform is self-sufficiency and not having to rely on Da Man for anything.

 

So they could give a fock whether or not whites are receptive to dialogue.

 

 

I speculate that the folks that hate Sharpton the most are black people.

No, we don't hate him. I personally think it's kinda funny, although I will admit his "Crying Wolf" persona could have major implications down the road.

 

His oversaturation in the mainstream media politicing against every perceived wrong done against Blacks lessens the effect with each occurence. That's too bad.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

Sharpton, Jesse and eveyone else of their ilk aren't appealling to whites as much as they are simply informing (in their own unique way) the public of various ills (real or imagined) toward Blacks. Their platform is self-sufficiency and not having to rely on Da Man for anything.

 

So they could give a fock whether or not whites are receptive to dialogue.

 

So they don't want to solve the problem. With this I agree.

 

I also agree with the "in their own unique way" if you mean making up stories and that they use "imagined" ills. That is why he gets grief.

 

If you want to improve race relations, it would be better to focus on the real problems that are out there, because there are plenty of them and to work on making changes together since we are all part of the problem.

[Mack 1 6]

If you want to improve race relations....

My personal take on improving race relations is this: they'll never improve.

 

They've been working on race relations in this country for 100 damn years, and where have we gotten? As long as there are people who teach their children (both black and white people) that differences in the races make one superior over the other, we'll continue running in place.

 

Keep in mind, too, that it was only 40 years ago that the whole civil rights thing was in its hey day; a mere blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. Do the improvements made during that time equate to 40 years worth of work?

 

So call me a pessimist, but I don't see things improving greatly in my lifetime.

[supermike80 1,907]

Be careful man...be VERY carreful.

If Al got the right people behind him, he could very possibly WIN the presidency. So could Jesse. Believe it.

 

Then you will see some serious stuff.

[KSB2424 3,148]

I like this Mack 1 guy!

 

Don't agree with him, but at least he states his views without resorting to name calling and acting all defensive.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

My personal take on improving race relations is this: they'll never improve.

 

They've been working on race relations in this country for 100 damn years, and where have we gotten? As long as there are people who teach their children (both black and white people) that differences in the races make one superior over the other, we'll continue running in place.

 

Keep in mind, too, that it was only 40 years ago that the whole civil rights thing was in its hey day; a mere blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. Do the improvements made during that time equate to 40 years worth of work?

 

So call me a pessimist, but I don't see things improving greatly in my lifetime.

 

I look at it completely differently. Things have improved dramatically since the early 60's. Are they where they should be? Of course not. However, I would rather have us making things consistently better over time so that our kids and grandkids might not have to deal with people like Sharpton and his ilk.

 

I like this Mack 1 guy!

 

Don't agree with him, but at least he states his views without resorting to name calling and acting all defensive.

There are more people here like that than you would think. It is the few bad apples that give debate around here a bad name.

[Electric Mayhem 35]

I don't think there will ever be true racial equality. There are too many laws and rules and differentiations between the way different races are treated that we can never consider us all to be 'equal'.

 

Living in the NorthEast, the only racism I ever see is on the news, all of which to me seem like fabrication of 'regular' crimes and events that are given a racial spin to make it more newsworthy. Why do the papers and text news outlets have to say "a black man" when a crime is committed by someone black? It's so stupid. Why should the color of someone's skin be a point in the story? Why do you never hear "Margaret Hutchins, a brunette with hazel eyes, was found guilty or murdering her husband."? It's focking lame.

 

I really can't comment on the current status of racism in the US. I bet in the South it is still abundant which is a shame. I personally think it all stems around the state of the education system. Even those that work their asses off and go to class and college still graduate with zero communication skills.

[Cruzer 1,995]

if MLK were alive today, i truely believe he'd kick sharpton in the nuts.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

if MLK were alive today, i truely believe he'd kick sharton in the nuts.

 

Exactly