Al Sharpton: A Lifelong Racist Eulogizes Michael Jackson
The late Michael Jackson, Al Sharpton told CNN’s Larry King last night, “expanded,†on “a cultural level,†the work that “[Martin Luther] King and Jackie Robinson and others had done†to elevate the status of blacks in American society. “Michael made people comfortable with each other,†said Sharpton, asserting that, thanks in part to the pop icon’s influence, Americans at large eventually “grew up to be able to be more comfortable making political and other moves that they may not have made without that cultural comfort.â€
Sharpton’s remarks to King were an extension of the eulogy he had delivered earlier yesterday at the L.A. Staples Center, where he proclaimed that Jackson had “broke[n] down the color curtain†and “brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos togetherâ€Â – thereby setting the stage for the day when Americans would be “comfortable†enough “to vote for a person of color to be the President of the United States.â€
Yes, Al Sharpton chose to turn his eulogy for Michael Jackson into a monologue about race. No surprise there. For Sharpton, everything, however grand or trivial, is ultimately about race.
He is, after all, the same Al Sharpton who, in the late Eighties, knowingly abetted a 15-year-old black girl in falsely charging that a mysterious gang of white racists had abducted and gang-raped her; according to ex-Sharpton aide Perry McKinnon, Sharpton did this specifically for the purpose of cultivating an atmosphere of racial division that could help him advance what he called his “movement.â€
Yes, we are talking about the same Al Sharpton who, a few years after that, helped foment some of the ugliest anti-Semitic riots in living memory when he falsely depicted a Brooklyn, New York car accident (which had killed a 7-year old black child) as a racially tinged homicide perpetrated by a Hasidic Jew.
He is the same Al Sharpton who orchestrated a grotesque 1995 boycott against a Jewish-owned clothing shop in Harlem, New York, where a throng of black picketers — under the watchful, approving eye of Sharpton – shrieked, entirely without cause, that a cabal of “greedy Jew bastards†and white “crackers†had been mistreating them. This crusade, too, ended badly, when one of the protesters eventually shot four whites in the clothing shop and then set the building on fire — killing seven people.
And who could forget the skillful manner in which Sharpton has repeatedly turned handsome profits by using threats of racially charged boycotts and negative-publicity campaigns to shake down a host of corporate CEOs eager to avoid controversy.
Indeed, he is the same Al Sharpton who once lavished an audience of students and professors at New Jersey’s Kean College with references to “crackers†and “Greek homos†who, from a historical perspective, were still “in the caves [of Europe] while we [black Africans] was building empires†and developing “philosophy and astrology and mathematics.â€
By inviting this vile bigot to speak at yesterday’s memorial service, Michael Jackson’s family demonstrated that for whatever gifts and talents they may possess, good judgment is not among them.
The same can be said of Larry King, who, in tortured syntax, concluded his interview with Sharpton by fawning: “There wasn’t anyone there [at the memorial service] today who could not say that you were anything but brilliant.â€
Boy, is YOUR inbox gonna fill up! I’ve been called so many names by voicing my lack of “awe” over Rev. Al, that I don’t dare submit a less-than-complimentary opinion. I’ve just come to the conclusion that I MUST be a racist. By admitting it, no-one is surprised about my viewpoint. I just wish the blacks would get over being black, admit it, and move on. Wished that The Rev. could’ve stayed in the race for President, I was going to vote for him just to prove that I really wasn’t a racist.
I think Al Sharpton is an egomaniac and opportunist, but calling someone who is part of an ethnic minority that has not enjoyed the same level of privilege that white american men have enjoyed for centuries is not only ignorant but also childish and downright insulting to the history of oppression that white europeans have unleashed on other ethnic groups throughout history.
The only bigots are those who are trying to make an effort to place themselves in the “victims” chair by inverting the real issue of racism in the U.S. to their favor. Horowitz, Limbaugh, Gingrich, Buchanan Coulter and all the other rich white privileged racists who feel “victimized” by minorities are the real bigots.
It’s good to see that you conservatives are finally admitting the what you all know behind closed doors: THAT YOU ARE IN FACT RACIST AND ARE FRUSTRATED BECAUSE AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN IS YOUR PRESIDENT.
You put Horowitz in this group of “bigots” and a “Racist” because of Obama? Where have you been? Horowitz has defended Obama numerous times and has called many here as having Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Horowitz also wrote that Obama is found to be a “non-citizen” which the Constitution forbids, that he should be allowed since the majority of people voted for him. Sure he questions Obama’s policies from time to time but that is not “racist.”
I hadn’t heard of these Sharpton activities and his past and if they are now a “published” lie, then he could actually have a lawsuit. Would Sharpton defend his honor and integrety for these “racist” comments about him? Would you help pay for it? Would Sharpton even want to bring up the past afraid that the “racist” comments are true?
Would you agree that many Blacks voted for Obama ONLY BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK? Even Blacks have acknowledged this. Therefore, Martin Luther King’s “Dream” is a NIGHTMARE since they based their vote on the “color of thy skin” and not the “content of their character.”
I have attended Black churches as a musician and their musical sound of love for Jesus cannot be duplicated. Their enthusiaism is fantastic. Their morals are strong. So why would these God-loving people vote for Obama, who is the total opposite of what they learn about on Sunday’s?
Obama’s CULT is anti-religion! He by-passed the National Day of Prayer? At Notre Dame they had to cover the Crosses? He sat in a church that preached Black Liberation Theology? Is that “RACIST?” Those teaching equate Jesus with Karl Marx? Didn’t Marx say, “There is no God?” How could they preach about the Son of God where there is “no God?”
Yes my dear, Sharpton only fights for his race just like the NAACP which is equal to the KKK! One advances “Colored” people and the other advances “White” people. Even Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were in the NAACP. So, as a Hispanic, I will join La Raza Unida tomorrow. I then will only want to advance “Brown” people! The hell with the rest of you right?
You love “everyone” still?
rascism ain’t wrong when it is purpetrated by black, muslims and other’minorities’ gainst whites, certain jews (any critism on a leftwing jew who suck up to obama/osama is antisemitsm)……
I never understood balcks who went to the rascist muslim movement, such as farakhan’s, as there would not have been any black slavery ijn this country without the supply of their african brothers and muslims and the only time in africa there was no black slavery was the late nineteen hundreds until whites were butchered out in the 60-s of the last century (yes even today there is black slavery in africa and the muslim middle east and arabs butcher muslims in the hundred thousands in darfur… but he, there is no jew or christian in side to balme and create another parasitic ngo sponsored by our tax dollars).
Frankly, I wonder if that isn’t a tongue-in-cheek way of alluding that there wasn’t anyone at the memorial service [today] who could spell “brilliant”, therefore much less assess and say that Sharpton wasn’t. But that’s just me.
I have to laugh that the man so constantly criticized by blacks during his life for his rejection of his “blackness” as expressed by his increasing “whiteness” (the ever-lightening skin, the Anglification of his nose, the straightening and styling of his hair, etc.) is pointed to by Sharpton as the singular “messiah” of cross-racial coming together and harmony, lol. While keeping his own black racism intact and justifiable, Sharpton espouses non-blacks to overcome their own ethnic affiliations and preferences toward peace by pointing to the rare example of the black man who wasn’t, who tortured and twisted himself into something that barely resembled a human being, much less any racial subset of humanity. Funny I don’t see him admonishing black people to lead the way by becoming “more like Michael” in that regard.
But perhaps there some truth in the fact that a self-loathing, self-ethnic-denying, pedophiliac, racial “transvetite” dying to be something other than what he is does indeed make us all “comfortable” with ourselves, certainly. Who can’t feel better about themselves in comparison to that?
Maybe we see so much of Sharpton because even Ringling Bros couldn’t sell him as an attraction. Imagine what it would do for white people to have Morton Downey, Jr. as the most public outlet as to why whites should be taken seriously. Sharpton is a walking, talking parody, the very embodiment of exactly the stereotype of black people that he insists is fictitious, intentionally made up by white people, and that white people need to shed. He can hardly be the King of Racism and have his “everyone else needs to not be racist” rants taken seriously. He’s like Bugs Bunny calling someone else a “maroon”, lol.