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How Al Sharpton became Obama’s go-to man on race.
Politico ^ | August 21, 2014 | Glenn Thrush

Posted on 08/22/2014 12:25:31 PM PDT by EveningStar

A few days after 18-year-old Mike Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri, White House officials enlisted an unusual source for on-the-ground intelligence amid the chaos and tear gas: the Rev. Al Sharpton, a fiery activist who became a household name by provoking rather than pacifying.

Sharpton—once such a pariah that Clinton administration officials rushed through their ribbon-cuttings in Harlem for fear he’d show up and force them to, gasp, shake his hand—arrived on the scene 72 hours after the shooting at the request of Brown’s grandfather, who had admired his advocacy on behalf of the family of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; ferguson; michaelbrown; mikebrown; obama; race; sharpton

1 posted on 08/22/2014 12:25:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Our destructive pResident gives further validation to a race-baiting bigot. How [pathetic. Degeneracy gone wild.


2 posted on 08/22/2014 12:28:25 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EveningStar
"Mike Brown was gunned down in Ferguson..."

Wow! No bias there .

3 posted on 08/22/2014 12:29:15 PM PDT by BFM (CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
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To: EveningStar
How Al Sharpton became Obama’s go-to man on race.

Is it not the other way around?

4 posted on 08/22/2014 12:32:42 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: EveningStar

They probably bumped into each other in a pool hall in the southside of ChiTown. Life long friends since..

Talk about networking.


5 posted on 08/22/2014 12:32:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: EveningStar
If The Reverend Resist We Much is your point man on race, you’re doing it wrong.
6 posted on 08/22/2014 12:34:31 PM PDT by RichInOC ("I don't judge a man by the color of his skin. I judge him by the size of his nostrils.")
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To: EveningStar

Glenn Thrush is an idiot. I’ve read more believable articles on unicorns.


7 posted on 08/22/2014 12:39:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: EveningStar

Al is a Tax Evader and Obama loves Tax Evaders ?


8 posted on 08/22/2014 12:57:02 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: molson209

“Al is a Tax Evader and Obama loves Tax Evaders ?”

Obama doesn’t care what blacks do————the only thing that matters is skin color.

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9 posted on 08/22/2014 12:58:49 PM PDT by Mears
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To: EveningStar

Snitch Sharpton will snitch on his bruthas to Obemba! /s ;-)


10 posted on 08/22/2014 12:59:06 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: nickcarraway

True dat. That’s not to mention the slams he gives against people that just don’t appreciate Sharpton, and prefer to believe their lying eyes as opposed to BHO’s propagandists helping to apply new lipstick on an old pig.


11 posted on 08/22/2014 12:59:44 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: EveningStar

Jesse just f’d up is all, with his Obama’s “talking down to black people” open-mic slip.


12 posted on 08/22/2014 1:03:53 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: EveningStar

Pin the tail on the donkey?


13 posted on 08/22/2014 1:18:18 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: EveningStar
[Article] .... arrived on the scene 72 hours after the shooting at the request of Brown’s grandfather, who had admired his advocacy on behalf of the family of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

So grandpa is a black racist, and he helped raise up a 6'-4", 290-lb thug who robbed some little Asian guy who was trying to run a Quik Trip store.

Just Bammy's kind of guy.

14 posted on 08/22/2014 2:15:58 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: EveningStar

Tawana Brawley gave Al a good recommendation.


15 posted on 08/22/2014 4:39:39 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: hal ogen
OBAMA, HOLDER, SHARPTON AND THE RACE WAR

BIRDS OF A FEATHER ...

Just in Chicago, every week end, dozens of blacks are murdered and wounded by black and nobody in the black leadership, neither Obama, nor Holder or the race pimps, care. When blacks kill blacks, there are not mob protesting and rioting, neither Holder’s Justice Department send 50 special agents to investigate and prosecute the culprits of a single case.

A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reveals that approximately 8,000 — and, in certain years, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in the US — again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African Americans.

To put these number in perspective, recall that over 6,400 U.S. service men and women have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined over the course of a decade-long war fought in those nations.

16 posted on 08/23/2014 8:24:45 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Dqban22
The race-baiter do not care about black murders of blacks. Their money and power comes from creating racial animus, then, creating “programs” for their friends so they can suck up tax payers’ cash. Quite the criminal enterprise.
17 posted on 08/24/2014 6:27:41 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EveningStar

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. “Gang of Shiite” -

- Six (6) barack “Sons of Obama” thugs attack and beat a young white couple (2) in Missouri :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2x3PjW1kCQ

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18 posted on 09/08/2014 12:22:00 PM PDT by devolve (- "If Obama puts on a USMC t-shirt to play basketball it does not mean he has any balls! -)
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