Andrew Klavan: Black Leader Al Sharpton

In this special episode, our politically correct host, Andrew Klavan, takes a look at the disturbing history of the Reverend Al Sharpton – called reverend because he is revered, by Al Sharpton. See the video and transcript below. 

TRANSCRIPT:

I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.

Everywhere you look these days, there’s Al Sharpton… it’s strange, even after you wake up screaming, he’s still there.  It’s like one of those Blumhouse movies.  If he’s not in some city calling for protests because a cop killed a thug who was resisting arrest, he’s in some other city calling for protests because another cop killed another thug who was also resisting arrest.  He’s even been meeting with Barack Obama as if the president of the United States were just some hapless loser who can’t find anyone else to talk to.  So it’s about time we asked ourselves:  who is Al Sharpton… and why?

Al Sharpton has dedicated his life to the improvement of the black man Al Sharpton.

He first flushed himself to fame in 1987, when a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley concocted a lie about being raped by a group of white men. Reverend Al Sharpton — called Reverend Al Sharpton because he’s revered by Al Sharpton — became one of Tawana’s so-called advisors.  He falsely accused a young police officer of participating in the alleged rape, and after the already troubled officer committed suicide, Sharpton accused another man of murdering him to cover up the crime.  Sharpton and his cronies organized daily protests using viciously inflammatory language – even though one of Sharpton’s top aides says Sharpton suspected all along Tawana’s story was false. Finally a Grand Jury investigation exposed the girl’s hoax, leaving Sharpton looking almost exactly like a race baiting charlatan.

Unless you happened to be a leftist or a journalist or some other sort of gullible buffoon.  In that case, Al Sharpton was now a “black leader.”  And sure enough, wherever a tragedy could be misconstrued as a case of racism, black leader Al was there leading blacks to false conclusions and violence.

There was Crown Heights Brooklyn for instance.  When a black child was accidentally killed by a car driven by a Hassidic Jew there in 1991, a small gang of local blacks responded by murdering  an innocent Jewish man. But that wasn’t good enough for Al. His furious rhetoric helped stir days of anti-Jewish riots in what’s been called one of the worst anti-semitic incidents in American history.

And Al wasn’t done.  In 1995, he helped incite a vicious name-calling boycott of a Jewish storeowner in Harlem — and inspire protests that only ended when one of the protestors shot four whites in the man’s store and set the place on fire, killing seven workers, most of them Hispanic.

More recently, Sharpton has accused three white LaCrosse players from Duke University of raping a black girl, which they didn’t; made out that Trayvon Martin was the victim of a racist murder, which he wasn’t; and suggested Michael Brown was a gentle innocent shot dead by an evil cop — wrong again — and he managed to do it all while owing the government 4.5 million dollars in taxes.

Which brings us back to our original question:  Why do corrupt, opportunistic knuckleheads get elevated to black leadership?  Maybe that wasn’t our original question.  I can’t remember.  But I mean, you don’t see white people accepting leaders like this.  If someone like Hillary Clinton had been shown to lie outright again and again about everything from her husband’s infidelities to being shot at in a war zone to the reasons behind the terrorist attack in Benghazi, would white people accept her as a leader?  Okay, maybe that’s not a good example.  Well, then, if Teddy Kennedy left his mistress to drown so he could fashion an alibi…  Okay, wait.  If fools like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi…

Okay.  Look, black people, the point is:  don’t elevate demagogic flim-flammers to leadership in your community.  Don’t be like white people.  You’re better than that.

I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.

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  • Bamaguje

    “Why do corrupt, opportunistic knuckleheads get elevated to black leadership?” – Klavan.

    Because many Whites burdened by the historic guilt of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, pander to these race hustling loudmouths.
    In other words, Whites help create Al Sharpton by sucking up to racist rabble rousers like him, while ignoring responsible Black intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Walter Williams etc.
    For good measure, the White-guilt establishment even gave Al his own show on MSNBC. It’s the same White-guilt establishment that has saddled America with the inept Obama who is ruining America.

    • JacksonPearson

      Self Explanatory….:

    • gigologene

      I tried to find out who some of the members of the “white-guilt establishment” are. Still looking … no finding.

  • claspur

    Never was aware that the accused cop committed suicide in that
    bogus Brawley rape case? (pizzez me off more-now)
    I keep this article in a folder….
    http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26098

  • al_kidya

    Yes, the revolting truth about Al ‘Sharpie’ Sharpton is just that…revolting! Thank you for that, Andrew! Sorry, but I can’t leave you a donation…it’s Christmas time you know.

    • gigologene

      insulting to sharpies.

  • Joe Esposito

    The big winner is Sharpton and the biggest losers are Black Americans. Until Blacks wake up and eliminate their so called leaders they will always be on the bottom rung of the social and economic ladder.

    Booker T. Washington’s following quote describes today’s racist like Sharpton. :

    “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs”

    This was written in 1896.

    Merry Christmas All

  • Capt Bob

    I agree Sharpton is promoting himself and putting money in his pocket while causing unrest in the United States.

  • M2000

    Tawana Brawley, I heard she converted to Islam, say didn’t she practiced Taqiyya before the conversion?

  • Bob Sten

    LOL. Funny Andrew. Nice one.

  • Harry Black

    Naked Racism Alert! Klavan: “If he’s not in some city calling for protests because a cop killed a thug who was resisting arrest, he’s in some other city calling for
    protests because another cop killed another thug who was also resisting
    arrest.” “Thug” here is the new way of saying the N-word. “Thugs” don’t deserve due process or constitutional rights. Murdering a “thug who was resisting arrest” is the new lynching–which according to Klavan, is a good thing.

    • cjkcjk

      The term ‘racist’ when used by people like you means truth teller.

      • Harry Black

        CJKCJK–congratulations! You have mastered Orwellian Newspeak.

        • cjkcjk

          BS You are a wicked turd, not an insult, an accurate description.
          Disseminators of racist lies like you deserve to be abused.

        • cjkcjk

          Sure you disingenuous liars aren’t.
          you disgust all who look for truth and decency with you filthy deception.

          • Harry Black

            “disingenuous liars”–as opposed to “ingenuous liars”? Mindless rage leads to mindless writing. Or rather typing. Type awa cjkcjk.

          • cjkcjk

            Not mad just telling it like it is and who and what you are.

    • PAthena

      Two grand juries exonerated the police officers involved in the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and in the death or Eric Garner in New York City. Michael Brown was trying to get Officer Darren Wilson’s revolver to shoot him, and Eric Garner died of cardiac arrest in an ambulance. Both Brown and Garner were thugs = Brown had just robbed a convenience store (and was under the influence of marijuana); Garner was selling loose cigarettes and had a long history of criminal offences.
      Harry Black has little respect for the Constitution, for he has no respect for grand juries.

      • Harry Black

        That’s the official police-prosecutor version. It ignores all the evidence to the contrary in both cases. Your use of the term “thug” to describe a fellow human being, someone who at most committed a very minor crime (selling loose cigarettes! grabbing a handful of cigarillos), is offensive. The grand jury system is problematic, especially when prosecutors almost play the system so they don’t have to indict the police. Moreover, Klavan isn’t simply concerned with Brown or Garner–he’s generalizing, making it seem as if police murder of “thugs” is always justified.

        • cjkcjk

          Murder? When you wicked liar.

          • Harry Black

            Begin with the police shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice.

          • cjkcjk

            Who pointed a completely realistic looking bb gun at them you lying, POS, race baiting, wicked man, who will answer to God for your evil.

          • Harry Black

            Nothing like a man invoking the name of God foaming at the mouth. Reason? Christian compassion? Not CJKCJK’s approach.

          • cjkcjk

            Sidestep your lie, thus confirming who you are.

          • Harry Black

            See above: or read the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice. Cleveland police on a lawless rampage–and you defend them.

          • cjkcjk

            No you are a liar pure and simple.

          • Harry Black

            Never mind facts, eyewitness reports, and surveillance videos that prove my point.

          • cjkcjk

            Exactly! That’s what you race baiting scumbags do on a consistent basis

          • Harry Black

            C’mon cjkcjk, either make a case that the police didn’t murder or find some other place to foam at the mouth.

          • cjkcjk

            You haven’t made any case to answer you race baiting scumbag

          • Harry Black

            Apparently you haven’t bothered to read the material I posted above. And you haven’t learned how to carry on a civilized conversation. Your behavior here reflects an authoritarian mindset. Not very well suited for life in a democracy, are you cjkcjk, a society in which folks can politely disagree.

          • cjkcjk

            You people are so ridiculous! It doesn’t matter to you race baiting liars what the truth is.
            I can’t have a civilized conversation with a liar so that’s how it is.
            You are an enemy to truth and decency and I find no point in being polite to such scum..

          • Harry Black

            Rave on. You’re repetitive and, truth be told, a boring monomaniac.Your posts contain no content, only abuse. I have the impression your only reason for showing up on FP and kindred websites is to confirm your prejudices and vent your hatreds. The latter seem to define you. Unde ego odi, eh cjkcjk?

          • cjkcjk

            You’re just angry because I call you exactly what you are, a lying race baiting scumbag.

          • Harry Black

            Name calling seems to be your only tactic. It must be very boring to be you.

          • cjkcjk

            Actually name calling is quite effective when it is an accurate description of the character.

          • Harry Black

            Effective how? When I try to imagine you cjkcjk, I see an angry little man, a half-educated failure, spending his life spewing hatred. What a waste!

          • cjkcjk

            LOL ! Actually this series of posts began when I called you out for falsely accusing Mr. Klavan of being a racist you pathetic lying hypocrite. Again an accurate description of you.

          • Harry Black

            Well Mr. Klavan promotes racism and you’re buying it. Racism, as someone once pointed out, is the socialism of fools. I have yet to encounter anyone on FP who will stand up and say “black lives matter.” They do. But in the Orwellian world of FP, anti-racism is called “racism.” By that twisted logic, Tamir Rice was a “racist.”

          • cjkcjk

            In your race baiting mind telling the truth is racism.
            Go back to my original rebuke of your schlock.

          • Harry Black

            You’re wasting everyone’s time cjkcjk. I’m in the midst of reading Jonathan Feldman’s excellent piece on Ferguson in the current issue of Counterpunch. You should do the same. Against your own will, you might find yourself enlightened.

          • cjkcjk

            The ‘gentile giant’ that thug? The thug who got what he had coming?

          • Harry Black

            “Gentile giant”? As Karl Krauss once wrote, “by their typos shall ye know them.” Your racist rants bore me cjkcjk. I’ve had enough of you and your witless hatred.

          • cjkcjk

            Now you’re laughable. You have exposed yourself as a hypocrite, a race baiter, and a liar.
            Keep posting because everyone will learn more about what you really are, at least those with a brain who seek truth.

          • Harry Black

            So boring. A little angry guy spending his life cussing. I have no more time for you. Rave on!

          • cjkcjk

            Yeah, the truth hurts you, doesn’t it you liar.

          • Harry Black

            I break my silence to add more evidence of the way in which the DA manipulated the Ferguson grand jury, in this instance by admitting evidence from a known racist and perjurer. Since you claim to like the truth cjkcjk (although in practice this doesn’t seem to be the case), you might take the trouble to read this: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236

          • cjkcjk

            You’re just an abject racist that sees everything according to race.
            Actually you’re pathetic and i’d feel sorry for you if you weren’t such a liar.

          • Harry Black

            Nothing like a thoughtful and reasonable reply. I present facts, information that undermines your prejudices and you respond with abuse. No different from zealots of whatever stripe not only in the US, but also in Pakistan, Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East.

          • cjkcjk

            I notice it takes you about 10 times as long to reply as it take me.
            I guess you need time to think up a new lie?
            When one speaks the truth it is much quicker because I unlike you don’t have to remember a lie.

          • Harry Black

            From Wikipedia:

            A surveillance video without audio of the shooting was released by police on November 26 after pressure from the public and Rice’s family. It showed Rice pacing around the park, occasionally extending his right arm with what appears to be a gun in his hand, talking on a cellphone, and sitting at a picnic table in a gazebo. The video shows the officers’ patrol car pulling up beside the gazebo. Rice then appears to move his right hand toward his waist, prompting Loehmann, to get out of the patrol car and shoot him from a distance of less than ten feet, within two seconds. Reportedly, neither Loehmann or Garmback administered first aid to Rice after the shooting. Almost four minutes later, a police detective and an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the latter of whom was working a bank robbery detail nearby, arrived on the scene and treated Rice. Another three minutes later, paramedics arrived and took Rice to MetroHealth Medical Center.
            Rice’s mother said that the toy gun had been given to him to play with by a friend minutes before the police arrived, that policed tackled and put her 14-year-old daughter in handcuffs after the incident, and that police threatened her with arrest if she did not calm down after being told about herson’s death.

          • cjkcjk

            I saw the video you liar. You are truly a pathetic race baiting scumbag.

  • Nabukuduriuzhur

    I’m getting tired of posts with “Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by FrontPage Magazine.”

    Do you value free speech or not?