The Reverend Mr. Jackson has come a long way from his quarterbacking days at North Carolina A & T, accumulating a net worth of more than 10 million dollars, three plush homes, stock options from major corporations, admissions to private schools and top universities for his children and a sympathetic foundation willing to pay child support for a love-child resulting from an affair with one of his staffers. Among the corporate donors raining dollars on Jackson's causes have been Coca-Cola, A T & T, Citigroup, IBM, Boeing and General Motors. Perhaps modeling his sales tactics on the Roman politician Crassus, who sold fire insurance to those who did not wish to experience Crassus-induced fires, Jesse Jackson has parlayed a career as a Baptist preacher and race- hustler into entrepreneurial success.
Somewhat behind Jackson' net worth of 10 million, Sharpton, some 13 years younger than his mentor, checks in with a net worth of 5 million.
With an innate ability to pack his public utterances with super-charged verbiage, Sharpton has long been in the middle of events that have led to violence. For example, in 1991 in Crown Heights, when a car in a Rabbi's motorcade veered off course and fatally struck a black child, Sharpton, delivering the child's eulogy, made remarks concerning Jews and diamond merchants. Subsequently, black youths stabbed a rabbinical student to death, looted Jewish-owned shops and pummeled Jewish passersby.
Sharpton has never shied away from bigoted language, on one occasion saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin back those yarmulkes and come on over." And, as for Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy, his words were: "As for one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don't worry about that."
Two fake causes associated with Sharpton were the faux-rape of 15-year-old Tawana Brawley in 1987 and bogus accusations of the rape of a black stripper by the Duke University lacrosse team, in 2006. Though initially generating an outpouring of support, both incidents were eventually proved to have been contrived.
In 1995, the United House of Prayer in New York, a black church, directed a Jewish tenant to evict a black subtenant from property housing a record shop. In an inflammatory speech, Sharpton said, "We shall not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." On December 8, a black protester entered the shop, opened fire on customers and set the building ablaze. Subsequently, seven employees of the shop died of smoke inhalation. Sharpton apologized for use of the term "white interloper," but accepted no responsibility for the protester who torched the shop.
The operational mode of the racialist reverends is to seek out victims, or would-be victims, create a constituency for a cause and then drum up support. Just like Rahm Emmanuel, they don't allow a crisis to go to waste. Money will flow, "donations" will be solicited from any and all sources, and situations will be exploited to the fullest, not withstanding reputations maligned and lives ruined. And, all the while, the racialist reverends will give no heed to black on black violence in the ghettos and to the rapper/thug culture which has captivated so many young blacks. Neither will we hear impassioned pleas from these men of the cloth for strong family units in the black community and solidarity in efforts to build viable neighborhoods, based on hard work, regard for education and mutual support. In short, the racialist reverends have abysmally failed the people they so ardently proclaim they are working for.
Somewhat behind Jackson' net worth of 10 million, Sharpton, some 13 years younger than his mentor, checks in with a net worth of 5 million.
With an innate ability to pack his public utterances with super-charged verbiage, Sharpton has long been in the middle of events that have led to violence. For example, in 1991 in Crown Heights, when a car in a Rabbi's motorcade veered off course and fatally struck a black child, Sharpton, delivering the child's eulogy, made remarks concerning Jews and diamond merchants. Subsequently, black youths stabbed a rabbinical student to death, looted Jewish-owned shops and pummeled Jewish passersby.Sharpton has never shied away from bigoted language, on one occasion saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin back those yarmulkes and come on over." And, as for Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy, his words were: "As for one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don't worry about that."Two fake causes associated with Sharpton were the faux-rape of 15-year-old Tawana Brawley in 1987 and bogus accusations of the rape of a black stripper by the Duke University lacrosse team, in 2006. Though initially generating an outpouring of support, both incidents were eventually proved to have been contrived.In 1995, the United House of Prayer in New York, a black church, directed a Jewish tenant to evict a black subtenant from property housing a record shop. In an inflammatory speech, Sharpton said, "We shall not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." On December 8, a black protester entered the shop, opened fire on customers and set the building ablaze. Subsequently, seven employees of the shop died of smoke inhalation. Sharpton apologized for use of the term "white interloper," but accepted no responsibility for the protester who torched the shop.
The operational mode of the racialist reverends is to seek out victims, or would-be victims, create a constituency for a cause and then drum up support. Just like Rahm Emmanuel, they don't allow a crisis to go to waste. Money will flow, "donations" will be solicited from any and all sources, and situations will be exploited to the fullest, not withstanding reputations maligned and lives ruined. And, all the while, the racialist reverends will give no heed to black on black violence in the ghettos and to the rapper/thug culture which has captivated so many young blacks. Neither will we hear impassioned pleas from these men of the cloth for strong family units in the black community and solidarity in efforts to build viable neighborhoods, based on hard work, regard for education and mutual support. In short, the racialist reverends have abysmally failed the people they so ardently proclaim they are working for.
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