Al Sharpton: the Democrats’ Tom Metzger

IsraPundit ^ | 4/20/07 | Bill Levinson

[Winged Hussar]

Q: What is the difference between Tom Metzger (Aryan Nations, Ku Klux Klan, White Aryan Resistance) and Al Sharpton (National Action Network)?

A: Tom Metzger was never invited to be a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention (Kerry, 2004) or campaign with Ned Lamont. Nor did Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, and Joe Biden agree to appear at an Aryan Nations conference, as they just agreed to appear at Sharpton’s National Action Network.

Other than that, there is no practical difference between Tom Metzger and Al Sharpton. Both have used racist and anti-Semitic slurs. Both have, at least indirectly, incited racist violence in which people have been killed. Al Sharpton is simply a darker version of Tom Metzger, and racism stinks in every color.

First, let us clarify the fact that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, and Joe Biden agreed to appear at Sharpton’s Black African Resistance (we invented this counterpart to Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance), otherwise known as the National Action Network.

[Winged Hussar]

Who is Tom Metzger? The ADL has a long dossier that shows him using the N word and publishing a cartoon that says, “A world without Jews and Negroes would be like a world without rats and cockroaches.” (We take it that he would not have minded going without the Salk polio vaccine, which would have been one “benefit” of his world without Jews.) ... Well, this should give the reader a fairly complete picture of Tom Metzger; one that is best not viewed on a full stomach.

http://www.nationalreview.com/20Mar00/nordlinger032000.html

"…But the torching, so to speak, continued. In 1995-four years into the putative New Sharpton-there was another, fatal case in which Sharpton had a guilty hand: Freddy’s Fashion Mart. In Harlem, a white store owner — no, worse: a Jewish one — was accused of driving a black store owner out of business. At one of the many rallies meant to scare the Jewish owner away, Sharpton charged that “there is a systemic 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.” Sharpton’s colleague, Morris Powell, said of the Jewish owner — Sharpton’s “white interloper” — “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers. Reverend Sharpton is on it.”"

Fred Siegel’s outstanding “Democrats Embrace ‘Impresario of Hatred’” describes what happened next:

Picketers from Mr. Sharpton’s National Action Network, sometimes joined by “the Rev.” himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about “bloodsucking Jews” and “Jew bastards” and threatening to burn the building down.

After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton’s words about ousting the “white interloper” to heart. He ran into the store shouting, “It’s on!” He shot and wounded three whites and a Pakistani, whom he apparently mistook for a Jew. Then he set the fire, which killed five Hispanics, one Guyanese and one African-American–a security guard whom protesters had taunted as a “cracker lover.” Smith then fatally shot himself.

YouTube Video: Al Sharpton = Tom Metzger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrL8z6WQZsE

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[Shade2]

I think that Sharpton is closer to David Horowitz than he is to Tom Metzger. Farrakhan is closer to Metzger.