“There are just too many people out here in the real world who agree with this attitude, and its scary”
Yes, television and the internet have legitimized hucksters like Sharpton for a long time. He is a clever manipulator and like all blacks of the past who desire to be taken seriously, uses the term “Reverend” in his name, although to what seminary he belonged or what church he pastored remains unclear. Safe it is to say, that it has been a long time since the duty of a Reverend, to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, has been his mission in life. Sharpton presents himself as the representative of the entire black population and most people accept him as that, including white people. They may secretly despise him, but never seek to denounce him for fear of looking racist. Although he is regularly taken to task in conservative circles including Fox News, it seems that it may be too late to make that opinion, widespread. Sharpton has participated in hoaxes that ought to have returned a prison sentence for him, but he is allowed to continue as if his “mistakes” were perpetrated out of naivete or just plain stupidity. Now, that , in my opinion, is the real racist undertone.
He was “ordained” at the age of 9 or 10. Started preaching at age 4. What a jerk.
From wiki;
“Sharpton was licensed and ordained a Pentecostal minister by Bishop F.D. Washington at the age of nine or ten. After Bishop Washington’s death in the late 1980s, Sharpton became a Baptist. He was re-baptized as a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in 1994 by the Reverend William Jones and became a Baptist minister.”