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| − | '''Al Sharpton''' (born 1954) went right into making a living stirring up race issues, bypassing getting a job. Finding incidences where there was racial tension or possibly could be, he would help fan the flame. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist'. Some of his notable 'cases' were the Howard Beach incident and the Tawana Brawley incident. In both cases Sharpon got the defendants to refuse to cooperate with the police that could have led to quick indictments and justice and instead called for grand jury investigations. The Tawana Brawley case was later determined to be a fraud, 7 months into a grand jury investigation and after a waste of taxpayer money and bitter racial strife. | + | [[Democrat]] '''Al Sharpton''' (born 1954) went right into making a living stirring up race issues, bypassing getting a job. Finding incidences where there was racial tension or possibly could be, he would help fan the flame. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist'. Sharpton has owed the IRS back taxes for many years. Counting penalties it is currently 1.5 million dollars.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354846,00.html</ref> |
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| | Sharpton was licensed as a minister at the age of 9 as a [[Pentecostal]] and again as an adult as a [[Baptist]]. He has no formal religious training. As Sharpon's notoriety has increased he has spread out, running for President as a [[Democrat]] in 2004. Part of the joke of the late night talk show circuit was that Sharpton wanted his very first job to be [[President of the United States]]. Today he is a radio talk show host focusing almost exclusively on racial issues. | | Sharpton was licensed as a minister at the age of 9 as a [[Pentecostal]] and again as an adult as a [[Baptist]]. He has no formal religious training. As Sharpon's notoriety has increased he has spread out, running for President as a [[Democrat]] in 2004. Part of the joke of the late night talk show circuit was that Sharpton wanted his very first job to be [[President of the United States]]. Today he is a radio talk show host focusing almost exclusively on racial issues. |
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| | + | ==Tawana Brawley hoax== |
| | + | In 1987, Sharpton spreads incendiary hate claiming Ms. Brawley, then a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. Sharpton got the defendants to refuse to cooperate with the police that could have led to quick indictments and justice and instead called for grand jury investigations. The Tawana Brawley case was later determined to be a fraud, 7 months into a grand jury investigation and after a waste of taxpayer money and bitter racial strife. |
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| | + | ==Gavin Cato riots== |
| | + | In 1991, a Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child. Anti-semetic riots emerged with Sharpton leading demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." An angry mob surrounds rabbi student Yankel Rosenbaum yelling "Kill the Jews!". Rosenbaum was stabbed to death. |
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| | + | ==Freddy's Fashion Mart== |
| | + | In 1995, in a dispute regarding a Jewish landlord raising the price of rent, Sharpton once again incites racial hatred. "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Picketers are protsting the store spitting on customers. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno. <ref>[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby011703.asp The Sharpton hypocrisy] Jewish World Review, January 17, 2003</ref> |
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| − | Sharpton has owed the IRS back taxes for many years. Counting penalties it is currently 1.5 million dollars.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354846,00.html</ref>
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