Sharpton - Demogogue

After hearing Al Sharpton’s bigoted remark toward Romney I am reminded of just how those like Jessie Jackson and Sharpton have used the race card time and time again, but feel no guilt or remorse for statements like calling New York “Hymie Town” or saying “…as for that one Mormon running for President, those who really believe in God will defeat him…”

There is racism and bigotry in America today, but it isn’t just the white population against blacks. Sharpton and his ilk have in fact been a detriment and an embarrassment for good hardworking American’s of color. This is not Sharpton’s first bigoted act, back in 1991 Al Sharpton along with other so-called black leaders, hastened to Crown Heights in New York after several days of rioting to take advantage and capitalize on the notoriety of so-called protest marches in the area.

A couple of days before Yankel Rosenbaum, a twenty nine year old Australian ultra-Orthodox Jew who was in New York to conduct historical research at the YIVO Institute, was beaten and stabbed by attackers who shouted “Get the Jew” and “Kill the Jew".

Neither Sharpton nor any of his fellow “leaders” grieved for Mr. Rosenbaum, nor did they call for a stop or criticize the fire bombings, and looting of Jewish owned businesses that followed Mr. Rosenbaum’s murder. In fact Sharpton and his entourage spun their own version of events by bringing up the accidental death of a black child, Gavin Cato, by a Jewish man who had lost control of his vehicle during one of the riots hitting several children on a sidewalk. Not only was he wrongly accused by Sharpton of intentionally “murdering” young Gavin Cato, which later incited even more rioting, but when the Jewish man got out of his car to help the children he was beaten and robbed by the rioting crowd.

Furthermore not ONE black leader after three days of rioting in this neighborhood, or in the following more peaceful “marches” expressed a concern or criticized the blatant anti-Semitism expressed in signs that had messages like “Hitler didn’t do his job”.

Sharpton has time and time again shown his racist hatemongering personality and yet the mainstream media appears to ignore his hate filled rhetoric. From his speech in 1994 lauding his opinion that Blacks were culturally superior because, "White folks were in caves while we were building empires… We taught philosophy, astrology, and mathematics before Socrates and those Greek homos…", to his actively supporting the hoax by Tawana Brawley, falsely accusing New York prosecutor Steven Pagones, and spouting all kinds of racist remarks against the police, and whites in general.

Sharpton and Jackson have done more to harm the Black community than they have done to help, and it is time for them to take a stand against these rabble-rising demagogues.