Posted on 12/10/2010 9:19:49 AM PST by raccoonradio
A man whose actions led to cold-blooded murders is now running for President. And, because the Reverend Al Sharpton is black and liberal, his infractions will be overlooked by many and forgotten by other. They shouldn't be.
Freddy's Fashion Mart was a Harlem boutique owned by a long-time Harlem businessman who happened to be Jewish. Freddy's owner rented space in a building on 125th Street. The building belonged to a black church.
In 1995, the building's owners decided to raise the rents on the business tenants. It's not an uncommon thing to do - many landlords have and continue to do this across Manhattan and across the country. But, because they couldn't afford the rent increase, several businesses, including some black-owned ones, were forced to move. The man who would be king, the Reverend Al Sharpton, decided to protest this - not by deriding the church elders, the landlords of the building, but by loudly denouncing the Jewish owners of Freddy's Fashion Mart.
He insisted that Freddy's owners were bloodsuckers and white interlopers who were forcing the other tenants out of the building to further their own "racist" agenda.
A short time later, a man entered Freddy's and told all the black people present, patrons and employees alike, to leave. Once they did, the same man firebombed the place, killing all inside - including a black security guard who was trapped by the flames.
Reverend Sharpton insisted he was blameless in the affair, and that the "incident" was nothing more than a tenant/landlord dispute gone awry. But we should know better than that. The firebombing and murder of those people would not have taken place but for the Sharpton's rhetoric.
And this man would be your President, if he were to have his way.
Of course, he doesn't want you to remember the people who were killed in Harlem at Freddy's Fashion Mart.
Likewise, Sharpton would also have you forget his 1991 involvement in the tragedy in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. A car driven by a Hassidic Jew accidentally struck and killed a seven-year-old black boy. Sharpton injected himself into the situation, falsely claiming in both the local and national media that a Jewish-owned ambulance refused to take the child for treatment.
Sharpton doesn't want you to remember that he showed up at the young boy's funeral, delivering sound bites that included denouncing the Hassidic community as "diamond merchants." People, acting on Sharpton's inflamed rhetoric, later surrounded a Hassidic seminary student and him stabbed to death, saying "Get the Jew." Had Sharpton not fanned to flames of racial unrest, that student might still be alive.
Of course, Sharpton doesn't want people to remember Tawana Brawley, the young girl who originally brought Sharpton to national prominence. Sharpton grabbed as much face-time with the media as he could, claiming that Brawley was raped, smeared with feces and left wrapped in a bag by a group of white men. Sharpton was convicted for the defamation of the New York lawyer he accused of the "dastardly deed" committed against Ms. Brawley. Later, it was found that the entire story was a fabrication.
Who is Al Sharpton to let the truth get in the way of a good story? All of these scandals and lies are things that the Reverend Sharpton would like you to forget, or, at least, overlook. But don't forget - this is a man who wants your vote for President of the United States.
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(Michael King is a member of the African-American leadership network Project 21 and an Internet and radio broadcaster in Atlanta, Georgia.)
Note that this dates from 2001—Sharpton isn’t running against Obama in 2012.
Indeed, and the date is indeed listed
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Excellent. Very well said.
Clean up your culture Sharpton and you won’t have to hear any “racist” talk.
Sharpton wants to be a king-maker. I think he knows that he doesn’t have a chance to be elected President. Too divisive. And several major scandals, of which this is just one example.
But he has ambitions to be the Jesse Jackson of his time. Jesse’s specialty, after one third-party spoiler run, was to get paid off by the Dems in every presidential election year for NOT running. Until he got into that female trouble and lost his role.
I don’t think Al is there, yet. But his ambition is to be recognized as THE black leader who gets paid off.
Sharpton gets $400,000 when he pulls papers for the presidency for personal expenses because he gets enough signatures. He’ll “run” again in 2012.
Want to know what Al wakes to screaming in the night? MLK’s dream coming to fruition.
He feeds both his belly and his soul on racial strife, he sees it everywhere and there is nothing he can’t twist to meet his racist views.
He is more racist than a white supremacist recruiting center but everyone gives him a pass, both he and his enablers make me sick.
Al Sharptons objective in his campaign to silence anything he finds “offensive”, is to start a “tit for tat” with white conservatives.
He's trying to sucker another white conservative in like he did with Glenn Beck in 2007 when Glenn joined him in wanting to remove offensive “MUSIC” from the airwaves.
The good Rev couldn't get the youth to march in the streets with his Jenna 6 BS, but he could have gotten them to march in the streets if “THE MAN” take their music away.
Pay close attention, your watching the conception and birth of a race riot.
great! and done today, I note
I try to do about three a day, if I have time. Thanks for the compliment.
**Note that this dates from 2001**
Please also note that this is Al NotSoSharp’s HISTORY, as his threat to shut down RUSH only came within this LAST WEEK.
the article dated 2001 is nothing but a Reminder of what sort of SCUM old Al NotSoSharp is.
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