Pitts: Who made Al Sharpton the president of blacks?

MIAMI HERALD via Austin American-Statesman ^ | November 11, 2007 | Leonard Pitts Jr.

[umgud]

Beg pardon, but who died and made Al Sharpton president of the Negroes?

Not sure, but the PC news media sure drove it home.

[WakeUpAndVote]

“....and those who will insult us in the future —”

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Minority Report?

[TruthConquers]

The Drive By Media, that’s who!

[lilylangtree]

Shakedown Jackson, Liar & Fraud Al Sharpton and Racist Louie Farrakhan have all indicated at one time or another that their the voice of the black community.

[Red_Devil 232]

He Did!

[Holicheese]

I did, you honkey!!

[Quix]

Actually, he’s the Pres of jerks.

But a lot of blacks like anyone speaking up for blacks whether they make sense, are really an embarrassment, or not.

[NRPM]

I don’t often agree with Pitts, but I’m with him here.

[3AngelaD]

The mainstream media, with the assistance of black people who have declined to take him on and challenge him. Good for Pitts.

[IronJack]

there is a sense that the job itself has grown obsolete.

Exactly. The war is over; the rights blacks sought are won. They were won by appealing to white America's moral sense; they are threatened when glib con men try to turn that moral strength into an extortion racket. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do black civil rights far more harm than good by practicing their self-serving, myopic, antagonistic shenanigans.

[quadrant]

It is essential to understand that leaders of the black community are not selected by vote. Leaders are “called” but not in the sense that a board of deacons selects or calls a minister to lead a church, but in a much less formal - even entrepreneurial - manner. In reality, a leader selects himself: if people listen to him and no one challenges his authority, then he speaks for the black community. To white people, this process sounds somewhat demagogic but it makes sense to black people, so I’m told.

[JRios1968]

Dear "Reverend" Sharpton:

[purpleraine]

MEDIA

If they lead their stories with Sharptounge's crimes and scandals, he'd soon fade away.

Every time they give him positive coverage or a corporation bows to him, they pump him up even more.

Same business model as Jackson who pressured weak CEOs who put millions into Jackson's business, so he could enrich himself and his family and pay his employee's child support.

And tax audit? Not on your life!

[Trailerpark Badass]

Jena, La., might have gone unnoticed had they not used that fame to direct public attention there.

Yeah, good one.

[Cyber Liberty]

I would say in the case of Dog Chapman, it was Dog himself who made Sharpton President of Black Folk. Imus did it too. Anybody who messes up the way these two did, then seek an audience to kiss the ring of Sharpton, are the ones who are confirming the “election.”

[manic4organic]

He undermines his article by mentioning Jena, La., which was just another Sharpton shakedown.

[The Great RJ]

Sharpton’s claim to fame was built on the Twana Brawley hoax, where a black female teen accused several white men of a racially motivated sexual assault. The accusations were proven to be a hoax concocted by Ms. Brawley with the help of Al Sharpton. The Rev. Shapton exploited his media coverage in the case and taking cues from Jesse Jackson, became a professional race baiter living off of “donations” coerced from white businesses who feel denying his demands would paint them as racist.

[glide625]

Just as this site bars posts from Common Dreams, it should as well bar posts from the Austin Anti-American-Non-Statesman. And I might ask; who really gives a rats pattutti what the author of this article thinks? He’s jealous of Sharpton? He wants to be elected President of the Blacks? Blacks are a blast from the past; the open borders program has seen to that!

[TMSuchman]

He who has the biggest mouth & the msm behind them does! That doen not make them right either....