There’s a perception that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are leaders of the black community. The reality is that nobody appointed them to be anything. They just come around when there’s a crisis and hog the spotlight.
Brown and Garner should have been Sharpton’s golden hour, but instead he was booed. Now he’s being booted from a funeral. (Warning: TMZ link)
The family of the man who was shot to death in Brooklyn by the NYPD wants Al Sharpton to mind his own business and stay away from the upcoming wake and funeral.
Gurley’s aunt, Hertenceia Peterson — who is speaking for his mom — tells TMZ, “Al Sharpton came in, put his name on the situation, but has not even made one single call to the parents to Akai.”
Peterson says all Sharpton sees “is money and political gain and that he is turning the tragedy into a circus.”
She says the family does NOT want Sharpton at Friday night’s wake, where the Rev has promised to deliver a eulogy. She also says he’s persona non grata at the funeral.
That isn’t going to stop Sharpton from going anywhere. The most dangerous place to be is between Sharpton and a camera. And yet it’s hard not to notice that Sharpton bought his legitimacy in the Democratic Party by becoming irrelevant.
Sharpton has no credibility with the violent protesters he used to control. Family members know that he’s in it for himself. His Cato eulogy helped lead to violent attacks on Jews. Whatever eulogy he gives now will lead to nothing because his relevance is gone.
Obama uses Sharpton but doesn’t let him call the shots. Bill de Blasio did and is starting to regret it.
Sharpton has become the new Jesse Jackson, he has cashed in and is seen as having sold out. Like Jackson, he’s stuck trying to gain relevance by becoming more inflammatory. But Sharpton can no more regain credibility in the black community than Jackson could.





















