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Weight lost is Sharpton's crowning achievement. He dropped from 305 to 129, a warping 176 lbs. He is the perfect role model for the obese. All over weight people, regardless of race, ghetto or non-ghetto, should follow his lead to a better health.
Funny thing is you never see Al doing a march against black on black crimes which affects the black community more and kills more black people than any white person, police officer, or KKK member could ever do combined. But denouncing black on black crimes just sends a bad message and feeds into the stereotype of blacks as it puts on blast and highlights the uncivilized and ghetto behavior blacks in general subscribe to.
But wait, Al says look the other way. The real enemy is whitey and police officers. Ignore everything else and forget the black on black crimes going on. Nothing to see here.
Actually, purely in the cause of intellectual honesty (not that I particularly have any special affinity for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton otherwise), here are just some examples from them and from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. which contradict what you and some others in this thread say (i.e., that black leaders never speak out against black-originated crime, including black-on-white crime). For instance:
(From: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journal...nockout-Game): Rev. Al Sharpton denounced the nationwide trend of "knockout game" attacks on Saturday, saying the behavior by mostly black youth attacking random white, Jewish, and Asian strangers to knock them out with one punch "is deplorable and must be condemned by all us." Sharpton made his remarks at his weekly National Action Network meeting in Harlem, according to the New York Post. The victims of the "knockout game" have been predominantly white. Some have been of Asian descent. In New York, many of the victims have been Jews, including a 12-year-old Jewish boy. “We would not be silent if it was the other way around. We cannot be silent or in any way reluctant to confront it when it is coming from our own community," he said. “Kids are randomly knocking out people [from] another race—some specifically going at Jewish people." Sharpton, the president of the National Action Network and an MSNBC host, said, "this kind of insane thuggery—there is nothing cute about that. There is no game play about knocking somebody out, and it is not a game. It is an assault and is bias, and it is wrong.”
(From: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...ticle-1.292142 -- Rev. Al Sharpton: Let's talk about violence in black neighborhoods): The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for a high-profile community summit to address black-on-black violence after Harlem was rocked by a wave of shootings over Memorial Day. "Last year alone, nearly one black child a day under the age of 17 was shot and killed in New York City. Shot mostly by other black city residents," Sharpton said. "Shootings and violence within our community by one of our own is an outrage and an issue that we must confront as diligently and as passionately as a sensational case of police misconduct or brutality." Four gun battles in one three-hour period in Harlem Memorial Day weekend wounded 10 people - including a 15-year-old girl hit at a barbecue. A 15-year-old boy was also shot dead after a house party on the upper West Side. Gov. Paterson joined local community leaders in an emergency summit Sunday to discuss toughening gun laws and trying to reverse unemployment rates. Sharpton proposed to hold a more in-depth "Summit on Violence" within the month to bring together community leaders, young people, law enforcement, clergy, businessmen and elected officials, including Mayor Bloomberg and Paterson. He said three critical areas need to be addressed: improving partnerships between the police and the community, "better dialogue between all of us with our youth" and new jobs. About 70 people chanting "Let's save our children" joined a march Sharpton led Saturday from his National Action Network headquarters on W. 145th St. along Malcolm X Blvd.
(From: http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/jesse_jackson.htm): Rev Jesse Jackson Senior said back on November 27, 1993: "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery ... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets. How humiliating."
(From: http://bernardgoldberg.com/what-pres...alk-on-race/): In 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a congregation in St. Louis. He challenged his black audience in a way that few black leaders, including President Obama, do today. “Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58 percent of its crimes?” he told a congregation. “We’ve got to face that. And we’ve got to do something about our moral standards.” He also said that, “We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves."
My point is that when you initially mentioned this story, you left the part with the kid out. ... I decided to Google his name and get the part of the story that you initially left out. ... I hope you comprehend the point I'm trying to make with you.
I wasn't the one who initially mentioned this story.
Weight lost is Sharpton's crowning achievement. He dropped from 305 to 129, a warping 176 lbs. He is the perfect role model for the obese. All over weight people, regardless of race, ghetto or non-ghetto, should follow his lead to a better health.
How did he do it, Bill? I've often wondered whether it was bariatric surgery, or dieting and hard exercise?
Weight lost is Sharpton's crowning achievement. He dropped from 305 to 129, a warping 176 lbs. He is the perfect role model for the obese. All over weight people, regardless of race, ghetto or non-ghetto, should follow his lead to a better health.
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