Friday, July 30, 2010
Al Sharpton
Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton gave a rousing eulogy for a 7-year-old girl killed in a police raid in Detroit recently, challenging the hundreds of mourners to take responsibility and help stop a spiral of violence that has swept the city.
Sharpton lobbed some criticism at Detroit police, whose explanation of how Aiyana Stanley-Jones died from a gunshot has been contradicted by the girl's family. But he mostly offered a broad cultural message to a city where at least three children and an officer have been killed in recent weeks.
"I'd rather tell you to start looking at the man in the mirror. We've all done something that contributed to this," he said referring to Aiyana's death. (That much is true. We have ALL done something including you Sharpton.)
"Do they throw these flash grenades in everybody's neighborhood? Would you have gone in Bloomfield Hills and did what you did?" Sharpton said, referring to a wealthy Detroit suburb. "Have you ever heard of putting on a light and calling people to come out?" (No, they wouldn’t do this in Bloomfield Hills, because they don’t have this kind of violence there, and if they did, the people of that neighborhood have enough sense to react in a civilized way rather than shooting at the police. And, by the way, black people live in Bloomfield Hills also.)
A few days earlier, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, a Republican running for governor, criticized Sharpton's visit, saying he was disgusted and accusing the New Yorker of a "drive-by at the scene of a tragedy."
"I'm disgusted when I look at a 7-year-old baby in a casket," Sharpton said during his eulogy. "And rather turn to each other, we name-call and go ego-tripping and try to jump in front of a camera rather than stand up and say, 'Enough is enough.'"
The girl’s family should be disgusted at Sharpton for using this funeral as a platform for his pathetic publicity.
Sharpton gets in front of the camera every chance he gets, like this funeral, and starts trouble. I can’t believe that Sharpton would stoop so low as to use this little girl’s funeral as another chance for him to get in front of the camera and get publicity. And I’m sure he knows nothing about the facts of the shooting. All he knows is, a little black girl is dead and a white cop shot her. (I am assuming it was a white cop. Neither I nor Al Sharpton knows for sure. Like I said, all Sharpton wants is publicity. To hell with the facts.If it was a black cop he wouldn't be making his pathetic speech.)
Like the time he and Jesse Jackson came to Durham, NC ready to crucify a group of rich white kids from Duke who had been wrongly accused of raping a black girl in a bathroom. He didn’t care about the facts; he didn’t care about the truth. All he and Jesse Jackson wanted was to see the white men hanged for raping a black girl. Turns out she was lying. IT NEVER HAPPENED. Yet, black people in Durham and everywhere else don’t care. They still believe the rich white kids did it even though it was proven they didn’t be her admitting she was lying? Where was Sharpton and Jackson when that was unveiled, nowhere. It was mud in their face and they disappeared quicker than a coin in a magician’s handkerchief.
Sharpton, I’m sure, knows nothing about how this awful crime unfolded in Detroit either. All he cares about is getting publicity, that’s it, nothing more. He doesn’t care about the facts. I’m sure if it was a black cop who fired the bullet he wouldn’t have gone there.
All Al Sharpton wants is publicity. And using the funeral of a 7-years old girl to get publicity is stooping to an all-time low.
Al Sharpton saying that “All we do is we name-call and ego-trip and try to jump in front of a camera rather than stand up and say, 'Enough is enough.'" is like the pot calling the kettle black. And no, I didn’t mean that in a racist way, in case you’re wondering.
I’m truly sick of this ignorant moron.
Sharpton lobbed some criticism at Detroit police, whose explanation of how Aiyana Stanley-Jones died from a gunshot has been contradicted by the girl's family. But he mostly offered a broad cultural message to a city where at least three children and an officer have been killed in recent weeks.
"I'd rather tell you to start looking at the man in the mirror. We've all done something that contributed to this," he said referring to Aiyana's death. (That much is true. We have ALL done something including you Sharpton.)
"Do they throw these flash grenades in everybody's neighborhood? Would you have gone in Bloomfield Hills and did what you did?" Sharpton said, referring to a wealthy Detroit suburb. "Have you ever heard of putting on a light and calling people to come out?" (No, they wouldn’t do this in Bloomfield Hills, because they don’t have this kind of violence there, and if they did, the people of that neighborhood have enough sense to react in a civilized way rather than shooting at the police. And, by the way, black people live in Bloomfield Hills also.)
A few days earlier, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, a Republican running for governor, criticized Sharpton's visit, saying he was disgusted and accusing the New Yorker of a "drive-by at the scene of a tragedy."
"I'm disgusted when I look at a 7-year-old baby in a casket," Sharpton said during his eulogy. "And rather turn to each other, we name-call and go ego-tripping and try to jump in front of a camera rather than stand up and say, 'Enough is enough.'"
The girl’s family should be disgusted at Sharpton for using this funeral as a platform for his pathetic publicity.
Sharpton gets in front of the camera every chance he gets, like this funeral, and starts trouble. I can’t believe that Sharpton would stoop so low as to use this little girl’s funeral as another chance for him to get in front of the camera and get publicity. And I’m sure he knows nothing about the facts of the shooting. All he knows is, a little black girl is dead and a white cop shot her. (I am assuming it was a white cop. Neither I nor Al Sharpton knows for sure. Like I said, all Sharpton wants is publicity. To hell with the facts.If it was a black cop he wouldn't be making his pathetic speech.)
Like the time he and Jesse Jackson came to Durham, NC ready to crucify a group of rich white kids from Duke who had been wrongly accused of raping a black girl in a bathroom. He didn’t care about the facts; he didn’t care about the truth. All he and Jesse Jackson wanted was to see the white men hanged for raping a black girl. Turns out she was lying. IT NEVER HAPPENED. Yet, black people in Durham and everywhere else don’t care. They still believe the rich white kids did it even though it was proven they didn’t be her admitting she was lying? Where was Sharpton and Jackson when that was unveiled, nowhere. It was mud in their face and they disappeared quicker than a coin in a magician’s handkerchief.
Sharpton, I’m sure, knows nothing about how this awful crime unfolded in Detroit either. All he cares about is getting publicity, that’s it, nothing more. He doesn’t care about the facts. I’m sure if it was a black cop who fired the bullet he wouldn’t have gone there.
All Al Sharpton wants is publicity. And using the funeral of a 7-years old girl to get publicity is stooping to an all-time low.
Al Sharpton saying that “All we do is we name-call and ego-trip and try to jump in front of a camera rather than stand up and say, 'Enough is enough.'" is like the pot calling the kettle black. And no, I didn’t mean that in a racist way, in case you’re wondering.
I’m truly sick of this ignorant moron.
