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Why would Obama need Sharpton? He received over 95% of the black vote in 2008.
I would think the negatives of Sharpton as viewed by whites would far outway any possible improvement in voting levels he'd get from the black community.
superb question. maybe sharpton's got some dirt on obama. who knows. sometimes you gotta pay people to be quiet and give in to their demands
Yes, let’s talk about Al Sharpton’s racial demagoguery, shall we?
Yes, Al Sharpton, perpetrator of the Tawana Brawley racial hoax crime, is braying about false criminal allegations. The charlatan knows no shame.
1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred — but Sharpton taunts him: “If we’re lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it.” Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.
1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt.
Rev. Al Sharpton leads 'Jena 6' protest in Louisiana
JENA, La. - Draped in black and chanting "No justice, no peace," thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of this racially polarized town yesterday to protest the treatment of six black teens charged with beating a white student.
Read more: Rev. Al Sharpton leads 'Jena 6' protest in Louisiana (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2007/09/21/2007-09-21_rev_al_sharpton_leads_jena_6_protest_in_-3.html#ixzz1IlhcYtlP - broken link)
as bad as that was, it was nothing compared to the freddy's fashion mart episode.
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Also in 1995, Sharpton led his NAN in a racially charged boycott against Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned business in Harlem. The boycott started when Freddy’s owners announced that because they wanted to expand their own business, they would no longer sublet part of their store to a black-owned record shop. The street leader of the boycott, Morris Powell, was also the head of Sharpton’s “Buy Black†Committee. Powell and his fellow protesters repeatedly and menacingly told passersby not to patronize the “crackers†and "the greedy Jew bastards [who are] killing our [black] people." Some boycotters openly threatened violence against whites and Jews––all under the watchful, approving eye of Sharpton, who referred to the proprietors of Freddy's as "white interlopers." The subsequent picketing became ever-more menacing in its tone until one of the participants eventually shot (non-fatally) four whites inside the store and then set the building on fire––killing seven employees, most of whom were Hispanics.
I love the fact that Obama is using this racist clown, it shows who Obama really is. He will lose in a landslide because of this idiot. If people thought Palin ruined a race, wait until we get a load of this crap.
I agree! The obama's are Racist and anti-American too!
Why would Obama need Sharpton? He received over 95% of the black vote in 2008.
I would think the negatives of Sharpton as viewed by whites would far outway any possible improvement in voting levels he'd get from the black community.
Shh! Obama's supposed to be the Smartest Man In The Room.
Not even Sarah Palin would make such a monumental misstep, *rubs hands in glee*
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Originally Posted by tropolis
smart political move by obama.
sharpton's goal is to try and keep the black vote, which obama thinks might be fading.
sharpton's goal is to try and keep the black vote, which obama thinks might be fading.
lol
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