Sharpton breaks promise to Trayvon supporters, fails to show up in Sanford for Easter ‘Occupation’

Yahoo ^ | 4/08/12 | Matthew Boyle

[Libloather]

Sharpton breaks promise to Trayvon supporters, fails to show up in Sanford for Easter ‘Occupation’
By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller – 4 hrs ago

MSNBC host and the Rev. Al Sharpton has broken a major promise he made to those supporting him and Trayvon Martin’s family: he didn’t show up in Sanford, Fla., to “occupy” the town over Easter weekend.

On March 26, Sharpton had vowed to “occupy” Sanford over Easter weekend to show support for Trayvon, the 17-year-old black teen who was shot by Hispanic man George Zimmerman on Feb. 26.

“We’re going to have a full blown occupation of Sanford with tents and everything over Easter weekend until [authorities] either arrest George Zimmerman, or arrest us for praying for his arrest,” Sharpton told ABC News about two weeks before Easter.

Now though, on Easter weekend, Sharpton is nowhere to be found in the central Florida town. Instead, according to his Twitter feed, he’s in Harlem.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Maybe his hoodie didn’t get back from the cleaners in time.

[Vince Ferrer]

After Rev. Jackson hosted a rally advocating to stop suspending kids who misbehave, there may have been a realization that they should take a step back and start heading back to rationality. The same should also be happening with the press.

And the tragic shootings in Tulsa, while it is still early, may end up quieting things down. It is all fun and games to push people and blame them for everything and call for riots when the public is basically a decent group that actually mostly wants to get along, but it is a different thing to start seeing that there really are crazy agitated people out there, who may be willing to actually start something.

Most people of all races can look at their own lives, and their parents and grandparents, and conclude today is a much better time for themselves. We all really do have something to lose if things deteriorate, and Rev Jackson and Rev. Sharpton are old enough to fully understand that, because they have seen it with their own eyes.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I have a feeling that brother Al is very advisedly *not* going to be anywhere near Florida in the near future.

The New Black Panther Party has called for a “day of action” in Sanford, tomorrow (Monday). There are allegedly armed neo-Nazis down there as well. And Florida law enforcement is “on edge”, at best.

In other words, there is too much possibility for entertainment, and Al knows that there are a lot of people out there waiting for the chance to dress him up in county pajamas, or worse. And Al’s highest priority is to keep Al out of harm’s way.

[Dawgreg]

That idiotic hypocrite knows his little scheme is falling apart. I bet he went runnin’ to Jesse’s house to plan their next move.......like both of them moving outta the country I hope. This ain’t the Twawna Brawley and Hymietown atmosphere anymore where more than enough lamestreams and useful idiots of the black community made it something it wasn’t and they thought with this Martin thing they could get away with it again. More and more people are catching on to these two dispicable race whores!

[I see my hands]

Doing what one says they will do is acting white. Doing what one says they will do is racist.

[Dawgreg]

Even though I despise both the New Black Panther Party and the Neo-Nazi’s as much as I do the KKK I’ll be rootin’ for the Nazi’s if there’s a fight. :(

[SuzyQue]

Or, he knows they have done the maximum amount of damage with this one and it’s time to move on to the next.

[umgud]

Hey, give him a break. This race hustling is really hard work.

[grumpygresh]

The race baiters are worried about getting charged or sued by anyone harmed by his thuggish band of followers.

[sjmjax]

Yeah, the gig didn’t pay enough to be worth his time & effort.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Trayvon-as-innocent-victim narrative ain't flying.

When the prosecutor announces tomorrow that no charges will be filed against Zimmerman, the story will die with a whimper.

[Mr. K]

With CNN and MSNBC backtracking and talk of lawsuits big enough to bankrupt them, “Reverend” Al ain’t getting in any deeper on this turd pile

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )

[SaraJohnson]

NBC cracking down on their klan with the tan and their cracker wannabes in da network?

They don’t want any more evidence in court that their employees incited racial violence via slandering Mr. Zimmerman even after they were nailed altering a police recording to make Zimmerman appear to be a “white” racist.

Shakedown Al is paid enough at NBC to forego the small fish in the communist movement at OWS.

[SoFloFreeper]

Bwa ha ha ha!! Dem fools trusted Al!

[builder]

Planning a trip to Tulsa?

Guessing you are correct. The facts look more promising for his brand of race-baiting, now in Tulsa.

[Chode]

Tawanna Martin is more like it...

[varina davis]

I think the Obama crowd has probably told him to chill before there is an uncontrollable voting backlash leading up to the election.

[Right Wing Assault]

Those Sanford people are running on EDT (eastern daylight time) but Sharpton? He's running on CPT (colored people time). Racist of me? No, I've had real live black people who were late for something say, "Y'all runnin on WPT (white people time). We be runnin on CPT. We get there when we get there."

Sharpton be there Monday afternoon at the earliest. I think he was too tired today from all the talkin he's been doin for the past coupla weeks.

[GreatRoad]

I think the program directors at msnbc had a chat with him.