Posted on 08/28/2014 9:00:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Rev. Al Sharpton is getting the right kind of grief.
This time it's not from conservatives for being a race hustler who exploits every white-on-black killing to raise money for his civil rights group National Action Network or to boost his miserable ratings on MSNBC.
This time Sharpton is being criticized by other blacks - liberal blacks - who didn't like the tough sermon he preached at Michael Brown's funeral on Monday.
Sharpton's fiery eulogy was not the familiar Gospel of the Rev. Al.
Sure, he quoted the Bible and criticized Ferguson police for allowing a young black man's body to lie in the middle of the street for more than four hours.
But after calling for major reforms in policing, Sharpton pulled a switcheroo. He pointedly condemned the violence and rioting that came in response to Brown's death.
Then he surprised everyone in the church by bringing up a subject that too few black leaders - particularly the part-time one in the White House - are brave enough to bring up on a public stage.
Sharpton said blacks have to take responsibility for the chronic violence and bad behavior in their community that creates so much police attention in the first place.
"We have to be outraged at a 9-year-old girl killed in Chicago. We have got to be outraged by our disrespect for each other, our disregard for each other, our killing and shooting and running around gun-toting each other..."
As Sharpton said, "Blackness has never been about being a gangster or a thug." It has been about rising up, fighting against discrimination, building churches and black colleges and succeeding in life and never giving up.
"And now," he said, "we get to the 21st century, we get to where we've got some positions of power. And you decide it ain't black no more to be successful. Now, you want to be a n----- and call your woman a 'ho.' You've lost where you're coming from."
The New Rev. Al had Spike Lee and other sensible blacks standing in pews when he declared, "We've got to clean up our community so we can clean up the United States of America!"
But since Monday Sharpton has been rapped by "progressive" blacks for using Brown's funeral and the notoriety of a tragic police shooting to scold the black community for its own sins.
The Rev. Al's critics say the issue of black-on-black crime is irrelevant to Brown's death. Brown was shot by a white cop, not another young black male, they argue.
BS, I say. Sharpton was right to use a national pulpit to challenge black leaders to address the black-on-black killing spree that has been decimating the youth of our inner cities for decades.
Thanks to the attention of the national media and professional race-card players like Sharpton, everyone in America knows about Michael Brown's tragic death. Soon we'll know how it actually happened.
Meanwhile, have you ever heard of Dorval Jenkins, Marcus McCarty or Antonio Smith?
They're just three of the 26 murder victims in Chicago since Aug. 9, the day Brown was killed in suburban Ferguson.
All but one or two of the 26 dead Chicagoans were young black males. All but one or two were shot to death deliberately or by accident by other black males.
Jenkins was 19. McCarty was 14. Antonio Smith, deliberately gunned down by local gangsters in a dead-end alley for unknown reasons, was 9.
Al Sharpton didn't show up at their funerals. Neither did Spike Lee or Snoop Dogg. Neither did several underlings from the White House. Neither did Brian Williams and Anderson Cooper.
Black-on-black gang murders are too common. They're not news. So they don't bring good ratings or network camera teams.
It's great to see the Rev. Al's call for blacks to man-up and address the violence and gang culture that's destroying their community and tainting their entire race.
Now, if he's really serious, he needs to take it to the streets and churches of Chicago.
Whether the cameras follow him there or not.
Paul Wellstone anyone?
Maybe “O” programmed Al to say this stuff... because he doesn’t have the stones to say it HIMSELF!!!
Money changed hands????
Looks like he's still on the payroll from some alphabet agency of tyranny.
No so-Sharpton said this? Wow, I'm impressed. My level of disgust at this racist Rev has now devolved from 100% to 99.5%.
How strange to hear this statement coming from the Rev. Al....
Yet I'm convinced that Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King would have completely agreed with it.
Beware of black-hearted ‘prophets’ who profit off the blackened heartss&mind of others.
He looks like he has AIDS.
I know he loss a lot of weight.. but it looks like he needs folks holding him up when he walks and jabbers away.
His mind is as sharp as ever and deluded.
Tawana Sharpton is still a skunk. His underlying message is still America remains a nasty, racist country dominated by the white power structure. Michael Reagan can go urinate up a fastening device made out of hemp.
I think someone hacked his speech.
Yeah, sure.
He has taken it straight from the mouth of Dr. Ben Carson, who repeatedly stated these principles for the last few weeks. I saw Carson with Jesse Jackson on Sunday, and there has never been a more gracious man who showed gratitude for Jackson’s leadership long ago, but also was steadfast in pointing out that this nation needs all our citizens to succeed, so we cannot afford the failure that is taking place across America in today’s black communities.
How strange to hear this statement coming from the Rev. Al....
We you see a maggot in some garbage how it got there is not a mystery..
When Al shows up... whats happening there is also not a mystery..
There is an odor....
I keep looking for the satire alert because everyone knows AL Sharpton has been, and always be a race baiting poverty pimp who wouldn’t know the truth if it punched him in the face.
Too little, too late!
Wow, Sharptons approval rating +2.
Sharpton has obtained the level of “Not a complete creep.”
Anyone surprised by this? It's the same "denial" they've been using for decades to foster the "victim" mentality. Point the finger at someone else instead of owning up.
And may God grant to Rev. Al that he learn a thing or two about the truth of reality from Dr. Benjamin Carson. The well-being of his own soul may depend on it. Not to mention the public peace.
If only the first black president had been a Ben Carson.
A healer and not a destroyer.
A uniter and not a divider.
What a blessing that would have been.
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