Posted on 11/19/2014 3:36:06 PM PST by Second Amendment First
There are few political figures who have had as many lives as Al Sharpton. He has been so many things. A boy preacher. A roadie for James Brown. A racial rabble-rouser. Tracksuit aficionado. New York tabloid staple. Senate, mayoral and presidential candidate. Cable news host. Presidential adviser.
And almost like clockwork, stories emerge from time to time, about his, shall we say, complicated, finances. This week, the New York Times posted a story about his messy management of the National Action Network, a grassroots group he founded in 1991. Here's the key paragraph:
Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records reviewed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses.
The story comes as Sharpton's power and prominence with the powerful has never been higher. With Ferguson, Missouri on edge awaiting a grand jury ruling on the shooting of an unarmed black man, Sharpton will assume his role as protestor-in-chief in the coming days. In Washington, he has a direct line to President Obama's top advisors, most recently weighing in on Loretta Lynch as Obama's pick for Attorney General. And in New York, Mayor Bill DeBlasio counts him as a friend, though they have publicly clashed. Hillary Clinton, should she run, will likely have to reckon with Sharpton. For conservatives, he has been the favorite boogey man and consummate race-baiter
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I thought cats had nine lives, not rats.
Wesley Snipes did hard time starting in 2008 for tax evasion. If we get another POTUS that “doesn’t care about black people” maybe Al will get likewise.
The very unreverend $harpton is ready to use his Black Power racist card. His Black Power Racist card is approved by Herr Obama and Herr Holder. Of course American tax payers of all colors will pay for any riot costs due to his use of his Black Racist Power Card.
For a loud mouthed, boisterous, ignorant, race-baiting moron America has sure been good for the fortunes of the Rev. Al. He would be a low level grunt in any other nation. He hit the jackpot here in ‘crackerland’.
There are many things he should be in jail for and still he walks amongst us, why? because he’s black and has a big mouth and whitie is afraid of him.
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