Posted on 07/14/2013 10:30:00 AM PDT by maggief
“I don’t know how I feel about George Zimmerman,” Carlson said (watch video here). “But I am positive that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do not deserve to be called civil rights leaders. They are not. They are hustlers and pimps who make a living off inflaming racial tensions. They know nothing about this. They’re not residents of Florida. They don’t represent anybody, they’re not elected to anything, they don’t have constituencies. The only reason they’re allowed to do this is because we in the press enable them by calling them civil rights leaders. Why do we do that?”
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Sounds like Carlson’s may finally have dropped.
He will of course be called_________.
I heard him and I was shocked. Someone finally said it!
I like the term “race warlords”. HT to Neil Boortz.
racialists....
I saw / heard this. We need “More Like This?” YES, lots more.
That makes him an expert on anything about civil rights. At least the ones which produce a profit that is.
RACIST
Why does the press do it? Because they’re hustlers too.
...took several years of anti bow tie therapy to make it happen....
So true but add Flem flam ..These jokers are martins mothers new best friends..
Calling out the true bullies, belligerents and bovine excreters of the civil rights should be commonplace across the media and political spectrums.
Instead, dozens die weekly in democratic enclaves , they too followed Al and Je$$e.. to their deaths.
Best be looking over your shoulder, Tucker. And Thanks.
Finally someone points out publicly what has always been true - Sharpton and Jackson are nothing more than hustling rabble rousing opportunists who show up whenever there's conflict. If you're black, Sharpton an Jackson have made rioting and looting acceptable behavior when things don't go your way. Politicians embrace them and give them respectability in hopes of getting a few black votes.
“The only reason they’re allowed to do this is because we in the press enable them by calling them civil rights leaders. Why do we do that?”
Now that it’s been rightfully acknowledged and questioned — wish this would be a turning point for the media.
Looks like the common thread between Jesse, crump, sybyna, and al is that they are all in this to make a buck.
You win!
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/03/24/142983/martin-familys-lawyers-no-strangers.html
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2012
EXCERPTS
In Trayvon’s case, (Parks & Crump) alerted the news media more quickly. They phoned the Rev. Al Sharpton almost instantly, and organized marches with local civil rights activists. They also started pressing for federal involvement and alleging a cover-up from the get-go.
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“In court, you have the jury,” Crump says. “Our job is to get the case to a jury. We need to fight first in the court of public opinion. The jury is the American people.”
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Someone Must Be Punished for Killing Trayvon Martin, Says Mom Sybrina Fulton
by Allison Samuels Mar 22, 2012 2:04 AM EDT
EXCERPT
The now controversial killing of Trayvon garnered virtually no mainstream media attention in the days immediately after he was fatally shot, but that all changed when the teenager’s parents decided to hire civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and his law firm to get more answers on exactly how and why their son died.
“They called me the same day they were notified that their son was dead,’’ Crump told The Daily Beast. “When I heard their unarmed teenage son was shot to death, I just knew there’d be an arrest shortly. There wasn’t an arrest 48 hours later, and then I knew we’d have to take this outside of Sanford if we wanted justice.’’
Trayvon’s parents were told by the Sanford police that Zimmerman wasn’t arrested in their son’s death because the facts of the case did not dispute his claim of self-defense.
For Crump, taking the Trayvon Martin story outside of Sanford simply entailed dialing up a few well-placed friends such as the Rev. Al Sharpton. Crump worked closely with the civil rights leader in 2006 on another racially charged case—the controversial death of a 14-year-old, African-American inmate of a Florida boot camp.
“I had to call people like Sharpton and a few other black civil rights leaders and the black media to tell them about this story,’’ said Crump. “I had to get them to understand what happened to this young man and what hadn’t happened in his case so they could spread the word.’’
Historically, cases of murder and violence against blacks in the United States rarely have been given the same amount of attention as cases in which the victims of crime are white—and often go unnoticed and unprosecuted.
Just days after hearing the details of Trayvon’s death, Sharpton arranged to have Crump and the teenager’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, on his syndicated radio show and his popular MSNBC show, Politics Nation, to tell their story.
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In the wake of non-stop media attention from the likes of Sharpton and CNN’s Don Lemon concerning the Trayvon Martin case, black media blogs such as MediaTakeOut.com and Huffington Post Black Voices also began publishing accounts and editorials about the Florida case—daily. Almost instantly, readers of all races, ages, and backgrounds began tweeting and posting on Facebook their outrage over how the police have handled the case, and the lack of an arrest in the shooting. To date, almost 1 million people have signed a Change.Org petition to have Zimmerman arrested. In response to the widespread outrage, the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the shooting.
(snip)
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STATEMENT BY REVEREND AL SHARPTON AND NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK REGARDING THE SHOOTING OF TRAYVON MARTIN– AN UNARMED AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEENAGER KILLED BY A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH CAPTAIN IN FLORIDA
March 12, 2012
And whom had the most to gain when MLK was killed, just say-in.
Hustlers and pimps...
They made their living off of it.
So did many others. the media, the politicians, the pastors... on and on it goes
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