Posted on 08/15/2017 1:43:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This weekend, the world watched tragedy unfold in Charlottesville, Virginia. A young woman, Heather Heyer, lost her life and at least 19 others were injured when a car rammed into a crowd of people gathered to counter white supremacist protesters. What occurred in Charlottesville is a horrific example of hatred unleashing itself on American streets in 2017.
But what we must keep in mind is that Charlottesville is a symptom and we must deal with the cause: hate, bias and racism have been empowered and taken from the margins into the mainstream. Now we must come to terms with the fact that the president of the United States has played a role in emboldening these hate groups to come out of the shadows.
Those of us in New York City have known for many years that Donald Trump is not above giving dog whistles to people and certain groups. In the 1980s, he bought full-page ads in four major newspapers calling for the death penalty to be reinstated in NY against five black and Latino kids in the Central Park jogger rape case.
These kids, known as the Central Park Five, were later exonerated but Trump never apologized. He played on people’s fears and heightened racial division and tension then just as he did during the campaign cycle.....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The hypocrisy stinks to High Heaven
But hey, media, keep giving POS like Sharpton a forum to express their hatred
And Sharpton is a perfect example thereof.
Hey Al, how’s your support of Tawana Brawley and the payment of your back taxes going?
Where is the other one....Jesse? Oh and where is Chelsea? did she grace us with a twit feed?
” In America, bias, hate and racism move from the margins to the mainstream”
Yes, thanks to our first black President. It all started with: I don’t have all the facts but the police acted stupidly.
Al Sharpton is bias, hate, and racism mainstream.
I wonder who wrote this article for Sharpton? He most certainly did not write it himself.
Yes they did, but we thought you approved of the Obama administration.
Ironically, it was probably a Jewish man.
Oh, and the “Central Park Five” were never genuinely exonerated. They were guilty as hell. What happened is that there were many perps, and one of them was added to the list years later via a prison confession and DNA evidence. It did not make the other 5 any less guilty.
Unfortunately, idiotic Democrat politics and a moronic liberal D.A. led to an absurd “settlement” in which the guilty perps ended up getting lots of money. NYC at its finest.
Hey, Al!
That was 8 years ago, idiot!
Yes, very likely. Someone much more literate and articulate than Sharpton, anyway.
It’s not only that a$$ clown. Juan Williams of FOX News is every bit as big a “race hustler” as Sharpton.
I can not watch The Five when he’s there. He is constantly(seriously, constant) spewing how racist the Republicans are. He makes me sick to my stomach. Yo got ta be a black man ta understand.....he says.
When the history of the Confederacy is finally buried, they’ll be little narrative left for racist jerks like Sharpton to ride on the backs of.
And Sharpton and his minions have played a significant role.
On the Chris Plante show today he played a recording of this stupid sack of manure on Charlie Rose where he said that he didn’t want the US government paying for the Jefferson Memorial anymore because it was a constant reminder of the abuses of slavery.
How about the Washington Monument, Mt. Vernon, Monticello, the state of Washington, the capitol city itself, all the counties and towns named after those two, etc.?
The all time champion race-baiter and political ambulance chaser should crawl back -in his hole. He has no moral height to stand on.
Yeah, he’s pathetic I too FF when he’s speaking
You’d think a guy who was treated as poorly as he was by cnn would “get it” Must be the masochism in him
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