Al Sharpton’s Bleak Voting Rights Vision: 'Protect Your Lifestyle' of Dependence

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

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When asked what is at stake for black Americans and other racial minorities in the current redistricting wars, he warned:

SHARPTON: What happens is everything that they fear that she talks about, it gets cemented and gets worse. And what I say to a lot of people, old and young, is that you are not taking for granted things that we naturally got as a result of these laws.

Because we could vote, you've got things like Medicaid and Medicare and Obamacare. And this is your life. You got things like public education funding and, and public health funding.

All of that goes away! Because if you don't have people in Congress and in the Senate that will vote to protect the lifestyle you have, including looking at what private industry's doing with mortgage rates and rent rate, all of that.

Then he brought up racial reparations: “Some young people at a rally three days ago [told me], we want reparations. Who’s gonna give it to you? You gonna pay yourself? The people that are in office are gonna decide that. They need to understand everything you want will be decided by others if your right to vote is not protected and if you don’t exercise it.”

Everything you want. Decided by others.

There was not a single word in Sharpton’s remarks about personal agency, individual responsibility, family stability, educational excellence, hard work, entrepreneurship, or building strong communities.

The message was utterly bleak: your "lifestyle" is something the government has given you in the past, but can snatch away at any moment. Your role is not to create it, but to vote to protect the people who dole it out.

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Not a word about hard work or self-reliance. Only message is: keep in office the politicians who will preserve your “lifestyle.”

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.

[ClearCase_guy]

Grifters gotta grift.

[bk1000]

Why would young people feel they deserve “reparations”?
I am so sick of people with the perpetual hand out for money they didn’t earn.

[Resolute Conservative]

Oxygen thief.

[Fungi]

All you need to know about this phony “Reverend” and con man.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/al-sharpton/

[SharpenedEdge]

America will be a better place the day that grifting gasbag breathes his last.

He is an excellent example of the worst of our society.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“They all gunna put ya back in chains!!”

Now that’s uplifting.

[17th Miss Regt]

“They all gunna put ya back in chains!!”

Now that’s uplifting.

And what they say among themselves is even better. "They already took away our n****rs once! We ain't gonna let them do it again!"

[Texas Eagle]

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays."

-- Booker T. Washington

[OldHarbor]

Al Sharpton was a frequent attendee at Sean Combs’ Freak Offs.

Yo Al, who was lubing you up at the Freak Offs ?

[xp38]

They’s already taken away your sugary sodas and cookies!

[MikelTackNailer]

Even worse; the government's starting to make many of them actually WORK!

(A.I. illustration. It's up to you to prevent grease fires)

[Fledermaus]

Yet he lives well.