You need to read up a little more
by
berzerker
01/18/2008, 6:08 AM #
on Sharpton. Especially about his role in Freddy's Food Mart.
People died, and he instigated it.
As he did in a few other instances against Jews in NYC.
Not to mention his bigotted statements against whites merely because they were white in the Twana Brawley case.
But the differance I see is that the National Republican Party will denounce completely David Duke...but the Democrats refuse to denounce Sharpton.
sharpton:
Sharpton's most controversial appearances in the news came in 1987 when he, C. Vernon Mason, and Alton Maddox acted as advisor for Tawana Brawley. Brawley was a black teenager from Wappingers Falls, New York who claimed that she was raped and sodomized for several days by six white police officers before being covered in excrement and placed in a trash bag. These claims were later challenged. Following the incident, although Brawley refused to speak to the media or authorities, Sharpton and other advisors decided to speak up for her. Sharpton said that to cooperate with the state Attorney General Robert Abrams, a Jew, would be "to sit down with Mr. Hitler". All three implied that Mario Cuomo was tied to organized crime. Sharpton has never recanted any of the allegations he made surrounding the incident and maintains that he has always believed Brawley.
In 1998 Sharpton was ordered to pay Steven Pagones $65,000 in damages for slander for explicitly implicating the prosecutor in the rape of Tawana Brawley. Before the trial, Sharpton had said, "We stated openly that Steven Pagones ... did it ... if we're lying, sue us"[1]. Sharpton refused to pay. In January 2001 after Pagones had collected only $15,000 from Sharpton's garnished salary, a group of wealthy African Americans stepped in to pay.
In 1991, a Hasidic Ultra-Orthodox Jew, Yoseph Lisef, ran a red traffic light and hit a young black child, Gavin Cato, in Brooklyn's Crown Heights. A private ambulance from a Jewish association evacuated the lightly-injured driver on the orders of the police officer at the scene, who feared that Lisef would be attacked by the angry bystanders. Only later did a city ambulance arrive to treat Cato. In the violence that followed on that night, Yankel Rosenbaum, a Jewish rabbinical student, was stabbed to death.
At Cato's funeral, Sharpton spoke out against "diamond merchants", which is the occupation of many of the Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights. Sharpton mobilized hundreds of demonstrators to march through Crown Heights, chanting, "No justice, no peace." Sharpton flew to Israel to personally serve papers to Lisef for a civil suit.
On January 12, 1991 Sharpton was stabbed while organizing a demonstration in Bensonhurst. At the hospital when Sharpton learned the doctors intended to cut off his leather jacket Sharpton, "made them stop and hauled myself off the gurney and took my coat off". The event was turning point for Sharpton who saw first hand the violence that "loose language" could incite. Years later Sharpton met with his attacker and reflected "what poison am I putting in my environment ... where a kid feels he'll be a hero if he kills somebody".[2]
In 1995 Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish owned store, was picketed by Sharpton's National Action Network when it raised the rent on a black subtenant. Sharpton proclaimed that "We will not stand by, and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." On December 8, one of the protesters entered Freddy's, shot four employees, and set the store on fire, killing seven. Sharpton denied his involvement had anything to do with the incident.
