The Sharpton circus in D.C.; Update: “Thousands” march
Update 12:45pm Eastern. “Thousands” are marching, according to WaPo.
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I told you last week about the Al Sharpton demagogue-a-thon hitting Washington this morning. They’re marching around the Department of Justice to protest hate crimes. My syndicated column earlier this week elaborated on the politics of racial insult:
The ululations of the aggrieved ebb and flow like the tide. If there’s an insult to be milked — Macaca! Nappy-headed ho! — the professional victims will rush in, sell some T-shirts, fire up their bullhorns, make the media rounds, issue their 21-point demands, and then recede until the next race-hustling opportunity comes along…
… As for the members of the Jena Six, they seem to have learned to do the victim hustle quite well from mentor Sharpton. The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt reported this weekend that some of the defendants are literally rolling in dubious dough. Robert Bailey, one of the Jena Six youths, posted photos of himself mugging for the cameras with $100 bills stuffed in his mouth and covering his bed. “[C]ontroversy is growing over the accounting and disbursing of at least $500,000 donated to pay for the teenagers’ legal defense,” Witt reported. “There are definitely questions out there about the money,” Alan Bean, director of a Texas-based group, Friends of Justice, told the Tribune. “I hate to even address this issue because it inevitably will raise questions as to all of the money that has been raised . . . ”
Inevitably, those who dare ask such pesky questions will be accused of racism and blaming the “victims.” Sharpton and company will continue to deflect tough scrutiny by hiding behind rope imagery. Indeed, they’re invoking the recent Columbia University noose-hanging incident to promote their nationwide fight against “Confederates” — never mind the lack of suspects and the suspicious odor surrounding the Columbia case, which remains unsolved despite 60 hours of security tape and more than a month of probing.
The inexorable rhythm of the politics of racial insult is interrupted only when the insulter doesn’t fit the left-wing grievance narrative. Which explains in part why former GOP Sen. George Allen’s infamous “Macaca” gaffe was covered by the national news media like it was Armageddon, while a female Louisiana Democrat who this week called a black civil rights leader’s mother “Buckwheat” (after the stereotypical “Little Rascals” character) barely warranted a blip on the outrage-o-meter. No pockets to pick, no bribes to extract from protesting a case of abject stupidity that can’t be spun into institutional racism for partisan gain.
Sometimes, a thoughtless insult is just a thoughtless insult. Sometimes, the hate is fake. When will we stop allowing hoax crime king Al Sharpton and his ilk to make every single one of these incidents a federal case?
There will be one interesting counter-protest this morning:
When demonstrators rally on the steps of the U.S. Justice Department Friday to protest the government’s handling of hate crimes, blogger-turned-activist Shane Johnson will be waiting for them with a protest of his own.
Johnson and a modest band of supporters are pushing back against the outpouring of black support for black male offenders, such as the Jena 6, saying it comes at the expense of female victims of black-on-black crime.
The group is leading a Jena 6-like grass-roots movement through e-mails, blogs and rallies. It wants to call national attention to the beating and rape of a 35-year-old Haitian woman and the beating and sexual assault of her 12-year-old son by up to 10 assailants in West Palm Beach, Fla.
In June, armed attackers broke into the woman’s apartment in Dunbar Village, a public housing project, where they repeatedly raped and sodomized her and forced her to perform oral sex on her son, according to a grand jury indictment. They poured household chemicals on the victims’ eyes and threatened to set them on fire, police and media reports say.
Four teenagers, ages 14 to 18, have been charged. Police are searching for other suspects.
Johnson organized the rally after he read about the assault on the blog, “What About Our Daughters?” He questions why national black leaders and black media who supported the Jena 6 and the alleged victim in the Duke lacrosse case have ignored the Dunbar Village attack, in which the mother, son and alleged attackers are black.
“This is one of the most horrific and barbaric crimes I’ve heard about,” says Johnson, 32, a social worker from Washington. “But if the victim is a black woman you seldom hear about it … especially if you have black victims and black perpetrators.”
Ditto with crimes by illegal aliens and gang-bangers targeting black victims.
Won’t hear a word about that out of Al Sharpton’s big mouth.
Doesn’t fit his narrative or his shakedown criteria.
Glad to see folks willing to stand toe-to-toe against Sharpton and his ilk. We need more.
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you can’t shake down gang bangers for obvious reasons: you’ll be on their hit list.
as long as the media caters to the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson their antics of making money from race baiting will not stop. the primary career of both these men has been a form of extortion.
the immigration issue destroys the black community as well. the black community is impacted by the illegal alien workforce; and as of yet these two cons have not found a way to make money off the issue so they are silent. it is time for the truth about the impact to the black community from the illegal workforce be front and center during the immigration debate. Republicans need to lead that charge!
Maybe the Jena 6 money went to paying off race-mongerer Sharpton’s defamation judgment won by the Tawana Brawley prosecutor? Better call in the Rainbow-PUSH auditors to get to the bottom of it!!
It’s simple, black on black crime doesn’t fit into Sharpton’s political agenda.
I remember reading about that attack over the summer. The victims were attacked for something like 3 hours. It is a terrible and digusting crime.
I do wonder why Sharpton is only concerned about black people when it’s a black-against-white situation. It’s not because he’s behind victims (the Duke rape was a false accusation and the Jena-6 definitely ganged up on and attacked another student.)
I guess the case of a black woman and her son being so horribly victimized by a large group of black teens doesn’t involve Sharpton because it doesn’t further his agenda, to prove that all white people are racists and all black people are victims of this racism. So, I guess this poor woman and her son won’t be receiving Sharpton’s “help.”
I’m glad that Mr. Johnson is standing against Sharpton today, however, I hope the Dunbar Village victims realize how big of a blessing it was to not have Sharpton latch on to their case for his own personal gain.
I’m glad you include the mention of the Dunbar Village attack. That is perhaps the most horrifying crime I’ve read about in a long while. But since it doesn’t fit into his race-baiting, Sharpton and other such leaders have not offered any assistance to the victims.
Take away $harpton’s race-bater status and he would starve for lack of funds.
He and Je$$ie will have some explaining to do when they meet their Maker.
Great catch Michelle. You are so right on the money that you may be singled out for intimidation and humiliation again:)
You’ve said all that needs to be said about Megaphone Mouth, all I would add is that he never said a word about this case from Knoxville, Tennessee. No outrage from him, or anyone outside of the local media.
Reverse the races, and Sharpton would still be marching around the UT campus rabblerousing to this day.
Hippo-cryte.
For Sharpton to get involved, it would require a. MONEY and b. an alegation that a white cop said mean things to one of the rapists.
In order for Al and Jesse to come to the defense of black victims whose perpetrators are black that would require admitting to themselves that there are problems (and we all know that there are!) within the black community that aren’t a result of some black person “fighting back” against so-called white repression.
They way they see it, every time a black person attacks a white person it is out of some deep-seated repression (no racism allowed). Conversely, when a white person attacks a black person it’s racism. But black-on-black crime hints to issues within the black community that he doesn’t want to deal with because that’s not the side his bread is buttered on.
If he cared one lick about those in the black community he would go about things in a very different way. He is a race-hustler and is of no help to a community of people who need help.
My prayers go out to that mother and son. I cannot imagine…
Amen to 30′s prayer.
Clearly Rev. Al is showing the side-effects of long-term jenkem use. Is there a twelve-step program he could join?
Isn’t the first step admitting that you have a problem? Good luck with that.
…and you have to admit there is a Being higher than yourself.
Maybe an intervention could jumpstart the process.
Wow! I just got out of Foggy Bottom in time last night. I knew the cold wind and rain was blowing something into town, but forgot it was Sharpton and his ethnic grievance industrial goons.
That would be Mammon to Rev. Al.
Tiger,
Nailed it!
Thanks, Soap
Giving credit where it’s due, Rev. Al could complete his moral inventory in three seconds. However, it would take at least three years to make his list of all the persons he had harmed,
and you just expressed the reason it continues … fear and intimidation are how these gangs keep pushing themselves off on these neighborhoods … the people in these communities have allowed themselves to become unwilling to stand up for what is right because race baiters like Jesse and Al have so convinced them that no one is going to support them because they are black and everyone is a racist …
the 2 biggest racists toward the black community are Al and Jesse … they are bigoted pariah feeding off the fears they continue to push off on the black population of this country …
they set the stage for the gangs to come in and succeed in taking over control of these neighborhoods with their agenda driven racist actions that are self-serving … not black community serving …
the people in these environments need to stand up for themselves and when they do they will find a lot of people of all races ready to help them … but they have to show the rest of the world that they are ready to stand up for themselves first … sadly that is the hole they have let Al and Jesse dig for them …
I’m tired, here we go again
Race Pimp’s wished I had thought of that but jeffislouie coined that. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton are just that they do nothing more than perpetuate racism.
I’m not a fan of Sharpton. What he did in the Tawana Brawley case, and many cases since then, is repulsive. That said, he’s no worse than some “religious” leaders on the right, including Falwell and Robertson.
Sadly, we are going to be stuck dealing with Al “Sportin’ Life” Sharpton for decades to come
My self imposed ad hominem is: I’m a race-baiter. Looks like white bread tastes like Aunt Jemima pancakes. I read through all this subject matter postings 1 – 21/comments to see if anyone had posted another dumber than a bag of hammers moment on the Bill O’Reilly show about the Jena 6 money with Al Sharpton who gave his best how dare you suspect other than the purest of thought about such money. No, they are not buying Cadillacs and such (he was not at all clear about the lawyer bills reported by Bill as unpaid but then did the 6 not have a public defender…please note my ad hominem). Bill was very appreciative of Sharpton’s explanation because Bill, for the ratings man, invested in the Fox truth about Jena and will continue to monitor where the money is.
I do not recall O’Reilly even mentioning the real Jena truth, note my ad hominem above, but can not Fox be thankful for the Sharpton’s of the world for fair and the other side of the coin.
Some years ago, Sharpton either pleaded guilty or no contest to some criminal charges related to his nonpayment and or nonfiling of New York State income taxes. Yet nobody ever asks this champion of the poor if he feels that he has paid his fair share of taxes. Nobody ever asks him why it is social justice for a struggling janitor in East Harlem to pay federal, state and local income taxes while Sharpton apparently did not bother to file or report income. This failure and guilty plea or no contest plea would have doomed any persons other than Jackson or Sharpton from any meaningful place in public life. But for these two hustlers, they are immune from even being asked about it.
lgm,
Dr. Falwell is dead. Have you no shame?
The comparison is a dud. Who have Dr. Falwell and Pat Robertson exploited for their own political gain?
Desert Lover, thanks for elaborating on my comment, it is exactly the intent behind what i was saying!!! You just did it much better than I ever could.
Thank-you..
Sharpton’s shenanigans reminds me of that song that starts with “Welcome all my friends, to the show that NEVER ends!” My question is, where his Snake Oil booth set up? …Or does he even need one?
$harpton:
“They like me. They really, really like me.”
$harpton spots soap
“Don’t taze me bro!”
Who’s seen the political cartoon…
They both vanish in the blink of an eye!
We’re not the only ones who think these two are the problem. They are definitely NOT the solution!
It seems to me the more crimes prosecuted as hate crimes the more business for Sharpton and Jackson. White man shoots a black man with a noose and that’s a hate crime. Four illegals assassinate three black college kids and we need Geraldo to explain that previously exporting these degenerates would not have change history. Strangely, not a hate crime but an immigration issue.
I think this hate crime business is really the legalization of black racism where Sharpton and Jackson replace civil rights and the constitution.
Sharpton would be so less relevant if conservatives didn’t talk about him adnauseam. Al Sharpton appears on this site to the point of Sharpton D. S. Fox News claims to be the alternative to the MSM, so I wonder why I see him on shows like Hannity and O’Reilly so often.
George Allen has been nationally known for quite a while as a rising star for the repubs. He’s the son of a legendary NFL football, coach, and he’d been mentioned as a possible V.P. if not a Presidential candidate. His issues or “racism” also date back over 20 yrs. He was running for United States Senator.
Get real: To compare him to STATE Rep. Dartez in LA, whom I doubt 5% of this site had ever heard of is laughable. I’m amazed that “Buckwheatgate” even got MSM exposure outside of LA. It shows the sensitivity of slurs. Allen and Dartez is like comparing apples and pumpkins.
I always give props when warranted, so I’m so glad that this site has brought focus to the horrific tragedy in West Palm Beach. Of course, so called leaders should be marching more often about Black on Black crime. The don’t, they have an agenda, and some of ya’ll are obsessed. Al Sharpton appears like a race hustler and hypocrit, yes and also bears use the woods when nature calls.
Since when does death give you a lifetime free pass from criticism?
There disgusting quotes aside, do some research on Jerry Falwell, Patrick Matrisciana and The Clinton Chronicals documetary they created.
Crime exists, Hate exists, Hate Crimes are make believe. Crime is crime, punish accordingly.
THEIR, NOT THERE.
30 Pieces, you’re kidding at #26 right? Falwell was, and Robertson is, a shameless religious huckster…charlatan’s as my man Hitch would say.
One big Nation of Islam recruiting fest
Those people sure have a lot of vacation time to be able to travel and marh all the time.
uhangtight
my pleasure …
30pcsofsilver-
just a polite piece of advice—please don’t feed this troll or trollette (androgenous/ he/she/it-hell we don’t even know the gender) isn’t worth your time or heartburn.
GSP
#40
I figured out lgm’s purpose, he is for “Profiling” purposes, this is the
“Progressive” point of view. This way we have a measuring stick, for the IQ of the Leftist’s wingnuts political presence, on this blog.
slinger, what’s your definition of a “troll” if you don’t mind me asking?
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.
Troll\vb\ ME trollen to ramble, roll, problem. To angle for with a hook and line drawn through the water from a moving boat.
Troll\n.\fiend, demon; akin to MHG trolle ghostly monster, boor, lout, trollen to run with short steps.
Trolling\vb\the act of one that trolls.
Troll\Computer Geek definition\one who speaks without a sound knowledge of facts, attempt to deceive through strawman tactics, unable or unwilling to engage in polite civil debate to acknowledge when one maybe wrong, and person who intentionally seeks to create strife vice an intelligent attempt to join the path to seek truth for the betterment of all.
GSP
Thanks. The last definition describes a clear majority of the posters on this site.
My pleasure.
GSP
As a black moral conservative, let’s look at the positive side of this; Michelle mentions “thousands” which generally means the numbers are suspect and are less then. Also, suspect is Sharpton’s draw to this protest held in a large metropolitan liberal area with a high % of blacks. These low numbers speak to a lack of interest in this Jena 6 story or at least with anything that has to do with Sharpton.