Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton: Who's On First?
Chronwatch.com ^ | 2/18/ 2006 | Gabriel Garnica
It seems that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the Abbott and Costello of The Civil Rights Movement, are upset and indignant that President Bush has dared to praise Coretta Scott King. This divisive duo never waste an opportunity to take possession of the civil rights cause as if they were its watch keepers and foot soldiers.
The words “we,” “us,” and “our” are always sprinkled generously when these two race peddlers, problem profiteers, and blatant hypocrites spout their civil rights rhetoric like Pied Pipers hypnotizing blacks and shaking down whites all the way to the bank.
The notion, however, that these two raging reverends care about anything other than gaining more power, influence, and money is more laughable than any routine Abbot and Costello could have ever conjured.
Dubious Achievements
Jesse Jackson began by exploiting the assassination of Martin Luther King for political gain and has been working his way down the moral ladder ever since. Jackson’s brand of civil rights reparation involves shaking down corporations like Texaco, Coca-Cola, 7 Eleven, Shoney’s, Coors, Viacom, Clear Channel Communications, Am Fm Inc. and others with absurd discrimination lawsuit threats and manipulated settlements that most likely never reach anyone too far from his inner circle, lavishing such things as money, stock deals, and business opportunities their way.
Both Jackson and Sharpton have fanned the flames of racial protest and violence in their relentless quest for power, influence, and money. From Sharpton’s despicable involvement in the Tawana Brawley hoax in 1987 to the Crown Heights violence in 1991 to violence leading to the deaths of innocent jewelry workers in 1995, to Jackson’s frequent support of murderers and criminals like Gary Graham, these two race hucksters have never met a race riot they did not like.
The Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson has called Jackson “David Duke in black skin” and Kenneth Timmerman has accused him of having no qualms about poisoning American race relations for personal gain, wondering how Jackson’s reported $ 1 a year salary garners limousines, lavish homes, sweetheart stock deals, large bank accounts, first class travel, and the best schools for his kids. Gerard Jackson has called Jackson a “race-baiting hypocrite” and Mychal Massie is still looking for someone who can “Name 10 things Jesse Jackson has done to tangibly help the black people he claims to represent.” Sharpton is not far behind in the garnering the accolades of observers and fellow African-American leaders. Jeff Jacobs has called Sharpton a “vicious liar and a dangerous bigot.” Others have called him a” racial hustler.”
As if betraying the black community they pretend to represent and spurring racial unrest for personal gain were not enough, these two have also demonstrated a pattern of siding with questionable people. Jackson, a so-called Christian minister, has called Fidel Castro “the most honest, courageous politician I ever met” despite the fact that Castro has murdered thousands of Cuban Christians. He has also heaped praise on Yasser Arafat, calling him “urbane,” “reasonable” and having an “absolute commitment to justice.” Sharpton’s involvement with the mob and other dubious associations only add fuel to the sleaze surrounding these two so-called religious leaders. The cherry on this hypocrisy cake came when legendary womanizer and unfaithful husband Jesse Jackson declared “a week of moral outrage” over the inauguration of Bush and then revealed that he had a child out of wedlock by a former aide. Abbott and Costello never made me laugh like the time I saw Jackson counseling Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal!
Simple Logic
It is commonly accepted that Democrats are terrified of losing any part of the black vote that they have long assumed is in their pocket. Threatened by such successful luminaries as Condi Rice, Lynn Swan, Ken Blackwell and Michael Steele, liberals have sent their African-American soldiers like Jackson and Sharpton out to disable and distort these blacks who dare to counter the traditional liberal line. Liberals and especially liberal blacks perpetuate the lie that the Democratic Party has always spearheaded civil rights when everything from Lincoln to Republican efforts in passing The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has shown otherwise. Bill Clinton is considered “The First Black President” even though there were no major civil rights initiatives during his term and let us not forget that Southern Democrats were the ones who led a failed filibuster effort to stop The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Hillary’s recent idiotic plantation comments and remarks by other liberal black leaders comparing the GOP to the Nazis or Confederates further demonstrate this designed defamation of Republican race efforts and desperate distortion of truth.
Democrats want to keep blacks “angry and afraid” in order to perpetuate this victimization model that allows them to pose as racial saviors against supposedly bigoted Republicans. Sharpton and Jackson, whose entire social relevance is tied to racial discord, want racial unity and black progress like oil companies want solar powered cars. Simply put, these two racists and problem profiteers betray the black community every time they open their mouths.
The liberal MSM, of course, paints these two as “civil rights and social justice leaders” because having them around benefits the liberal cause. If the MSM revealed the truth about these two racial clowns, liberals would lose black votes and be destined to see The White House as tourists until kingdom come.
Conclusion
History is lined with examples of individuals who betray precisely those they pretend to be fighting for merely for personal gain. Such people often yell and protest the loudest even as they themselves backstab their audience with despicable and selfish motives. Like many black liberals, Sharpton and Jackson use civil rights concerns as a tool of self-benefit. They support liberal policies such as on-demand abortion, feminism and government policies that further destroy the black community and attack conservative efforts that would actually help that community. In the words of David Usher, “Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the most indignant promoters of policies that break up the black family, leading a pack of organizations married to the welfare state, thus keeping blacks in the chaotic underclass they complain about.” Jesse Jackson has called himself “the conscience of the Democratic Party.” I can think of no better condemnation of both that party and these two con men. While Sharpton and Jackson race to the mike to see who’s on first at the next race riot, press conference, or so-called prayer service, there is no doubt that the ones who will always be last will be those confused members of the black community that blindly swallow their lies.
About the Writer: Gabriel Garnica, Esq., is an educator, licensed attorney, and resident of Long Island, New York. |
