Posted on 01/18/2016 6:06:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Editor's note: This column is an excerpt from Crystal Wright's new book, "Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division."
When was the last time anyone heard the "Reverend" Al Sharpton give a sermon? I mean a real one, not a rant that incites racial unrest. Ever since Sharpton came to the defense of Tawana Brawley in 1987, knowing she HAD lied in accusing white men of raping her, he's been a professional race profiteer. Not only did Tawana lie, she lied big time: spreading dog feces on herself then hiding in a trash can to stage her rape. After Al "marched" in defense of Brawley, a grand jury concluded Brawley had concocted a "hoax" and the lawyers who represented her were disbarred. Steven Pagones, a Dutchess County assistant district attorney, was one of the men Brawley, Sharpton, and her advisors Alton H. Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason accused of raping her. In 1998 Pagones won a defamation lawsuit against the three race-baiting stooges, who were ordered to pay Pagones $345,000 in damages. Brawley was also sued by Pagones and ordered to pay over $400,000 in damages, which she only began paying in 2013.27 In 1988 People magazine referred to Sharpton, pictured with Brawley on the cover its magazine, as "a belligerent black activist" whose actions were a "disgrace." Today, a thinner, tailored-suit-wearing Sharpton works as a well-paid TV host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation.
The "Reverend" Al has also been quite successful in not paying over $4 million owed in federal and New York state taxes. Obama's IRS was masterful at targeting conservative groups from 2010 through 2012 to silence their influence in elections by delaying or not approving their applications for tax-exempt nonprofit status. But you mean to tell me the IRS can't make Al Sharpton pay the $3 million in back taxes he owes the federal government? In spite of his lawlessness, Sharpton has visited the Obama White House about eighty times. Apparently our Democrat president buys into Al's hustle. Or, like the Democrat Party in general, he finds it useful for winning elections. The first black president's embrace of Sharpton--enabling him to pose as a spokesman for us all--should show black Democrats how little Obama thinks of black people. Sharpton calls the president, governors, and congressmen his friends, just like Jesse Jackson, who pops up like a jack-in-the-box at every racial riot or protest alongside him.
But Al and Jesse aren't alone in belonging to the "black spokesperson" club. When "an unarmed black teen" is killed under America's first black president, the media also call upon Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West to be the mouthpieces for black America.
As the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, West is best known for his book Race Matters. If he were intellectually honest, West would say race matters for keeping him employed, just like so many other black professors working in "Black Studies Departments" at colleges across the country. Dyson is another black professor, an "ordained Baptist minister" turned spokesperson for the black race. Like West, Dyson's only qualification for the job of speaking for an entire race seems to be his skin color.
As a professor of theology, English, and African American studies at Georgetown University, in 2011 Dyson taught a three-credit course on the black rap/hip-hop star Jay Z: "Sociology of Hip-Hop: Urban Theodicy of Jay-Z." "His body of work has proved to be powerful, effective and influential. And it's time to wrestle with it," Dyson recalled in an interview, as if he were analyzing the work of a great writer like William Shakespeare or James Baldwin. Hip-hop lyrics, including Jay Z's, are notorious for glorifying gangsta behavior: crime, killing, and treating women like "bitches and hoes." Yet Dyson found Jay Z's song-writing talents were critical to the education of Georgetown students, who paid $40,000 in tuition that year.
These are the credentials--race hustler, black preacher, or black studies professor--that catch the eye of liberal news organizations. Democrat-allied journalists further insult blacks when they class Sharpton in the company of true civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Rosa Parks. The news media and Democrat politicians know all too well that Sharpton and the rest of the black leaders are nothing more than liberal con artists. That's why they promote them, because they know blacks keep following the voice of these black Pied Pipers right to the Democrat ballot box without questioning their motives. The day blacks decide to question why black leaders are getting richer every election cycle while the black race wades deeper into an economic wasteland will be the day blacks own political power. "Still today, the best way to make a black leader mad is to say to him that black Americans are capable of being fully responsible for their own advancement," wrote Shelby Steele. This is quite a revealing point that black Americans should spend some time thinking about. The livelihood of black leaders like Sharpton and others is based upon the Democrat precept that blacks are irresponsible degenerates, buried under a mountain of ignorance--and forever needing to be rescued by the Democrat Party.
bfl
Race hustlers are the life blood of the Democrat party. The media gives them a mouthpiece and the Democrats give them money and benefits. Corporations get shook down too by these hustlers to keep them able to pay their mistresses $10,000 per month as Jackson does/did.
Don’t care for Sharpton and don’t care for MLK.
MLK did a lot to move the federal government further down the road of unconstitutional activities and tyranny. He did a lot to turn the word “discrimination”, which simply means freedom to choose, into a foil for government to further unconstitutionally curb individual God-given right and freedoms to choose.
IMO, MLK was a demagogue.
He was so classy with all his affairs
Google and their daily doodle can reflect MLK but not Christmas. HOW QUAINT!
Google is anti Christian
It’s not for nothing
True.
I can't think of any other black, communist whore-mongers who have boulevards and parades and a national holiday named in their honor.
Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed
"It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of the population, the least productive, most criminal, and most dependent on governmental charity, should dominate national politics. Yet they do. Virtually everything revolves around what blacks want, demand, do, or can't do. Their power seems without limit."
"Courses of instruction in the schools, academic rigor, codes of dress, rules regarding unceasing obscenity, all must be set to suit them, as must be examinations for promotion in fire departments, the military, and police forces. Blacks must be admitted to universities for which they are not remotely qualified, where departments of Black Studies must be established to please them. Corporate work forces, federal departments, and elite high-schools must be judged not on whether they perform their functions but on whether they have the right number of blacks."
"Do laws requiring identification to vote threaten to end multiple voting? The laws must go. Do blacks not like Confederate flags? Adieu, flags. Does Huckleberry Finn go down the Mississippi with the Nigger Jim, or Conrad write The Nigger of the Narcissus? These must be banned or expurgated to please blacks who haven’t read them or, usually, heard of them. Do we want to prevent people coming from regions infested with Ebola from entering the United States? We cannot. It would offend blacks."
"We must never, ever say or do anything that might upset them, as virtually everything does. It is positively astonishing. One expects the rich and smart to have disproportionate power. But America is dominated from the slums."
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Civil rights should have remained a problem of unequal justice in specific cases with a specific persons, but the civil rights movement made it a matter of tribal political warfare.
And where on any given night people die or get robbed on the streets named after him.
“And where on any given night people die or get robbed on the streets named after him.”
They’re called economic empowerment zones.
Release MLK’s FBI file! Philanderer, commie sympathizer?
Google and their daily doodle can reflect MLK but not Christmas. HOW QUAINT!
Gag me.
Well as I heard some idiot Dem say
“America has had many presidents but only one king”
Pretty much.
The feds had and have no constitutional authority to meddle in any civil rights issues except for the one instance of state segregation laws against blacks per Amendment 14, Sec 1. Other than that one exception, the feds have no constitutional business in “civil rights” the flawed and counterfeit “Incorporation Doctrine” notwithstanding.
Government glorifies MLK because he was so useful in the assumption of more unconstitutional federal government power.
King was also palsy-walsy with communists, including Viet Cong fans laughingly called “peace demonstrators.
Guys like these and, in an earlier generation, Adam Clayton Powell of Harlem, brought to the Democratic Party a voter bloc of sufficient size and discipline (often 95% straight-ticket blocs) that the leaders of the Party, beginning with FDR, traded away their original allegiance to middle-class agrarian voters in the South and Midwest to keep the black urban vote in the big Northern cities.
Black voters gave Democrats control of the city machines, and the cities gave them control of the big States that controlled the White House. It's leverage -- leverage over the Electoral College.
The fly in the ointment has been Republican willingness, beginning with Richard Nixon, to court Southern votes to solidify the "Finkelstein Box" (named by GOP consultant Arthur Finkelstein in the 80's), that group of States that voted for Chester Arthur on the Democratic ticket in the 1880's and George W. Bush in 2000. The group includes the Midwest, Mountain West, and the old Confederacy, plus bordering States like West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Illinois that, if they tip Republican, can seal the deal.
The spider that ate the fly in the ointment has been the evangelization of "neocons", Jewish-led East Coast (pace Dick Cheney) Republicans who've rallied to the Old Stalwart Yankee Republican elite (I call them "the Yacht Club wing") and publicly and vigorously abominated Southern white voters, hoping to keep them out of sight up in the attic until Election Day, and then take their votes for granted.
That doesn't work, and diligent disparagers of the Southern social conservatives who support the GOP, by neocon writers at the Weekly Standard, National Review, and Commentary, led by Christopher Lasch and his boss William Kristol, have "broken the box" and produced a string of victories for Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and possibly more future wins for the now Communist-led Democratic Party.
Erratum in my last: Grover Cleveland not Chester Arthur. Cleveland was the Democratic candidate in the 1880’s and early 1890’s.
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