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8/16/2015

Al Sharpton: Everything Is Ultimately A Race War, Even Nuclear War

Filed under: General — Dana @ 12:36 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Al Sharpton, who has made a career of race-baiting and brazen self-promotion, is now calling on black churches to support President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, because, what else?

“We have a disproportionate interest, being that if there is a war, our community is always disproportionately part of the armed services, and that a lot of the debate is by people who will not have family members who will be at risk,” Sharpton said.

“I am calling on ministers in black churches nationwide to go to their pulpits Sunday and have their parishioners call their senators and congressman to vote yes on the Iran nuclear plan.”

Shamefully, this parasite is attempting to score political points and promote himself by using the young men and women in his “community” who have voluntarily answered the honorable call to serve and protect their country. The noble are but pawns in a game of race, only to be used and sullied by Sharpton’s touch.

It’s not hard to see the real priority:

He also argued Friday that his efforts would counter a coordinated national effort against Obama’s historic diplomatic achievement.

“There needs to be a balance in this,” he said. “Clearly lobbyists and others like AIPAC are pushing on their side, and there needs to be an organized effort on the other side.”

“A lot of Democrats, I think, should have to consider how their voters will feel in their base vote,” the reverend added.

One might begin to think that it’s more important to Sharpton that the president be successful in his “historic diplomatic achievement” rather than seriously take into account the very real potential outcomes of such a deal, including but not limited to, U.S. national security being put at grave risk, sanctions on Iran being lifted, their nuclear infrastructure remaining intact, and Iranian madmen and hardliners having access to untold billions of dollars in impounded funds with which to sponsor terrorist activities. All of which will impact every American – not just some.

Being President Obama’s “go-to” man on race , Sharpton is now needed to fan the flames in order to secure support for the Iran nuclear deal. Sharpton, practiced and professional race hustling fool that he is, will skillfully use the weapon of race in an attempt to influence a select group of Americans in spite of the very real danger that *all* Americans will face if this deal is met with approval.

–Dana

30 Responses to “Al Sharpton: Everything Is Ultimately A Race War, Even Nuclear War”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (86e864)

  2. letting Obama do nuclear genocide on israel won’t help black people not even a little

    in fact it might actually ding the reputation of failmerica’s “first black president” a bit to the extent that he’s responsible for finishing what Hitler started

    wrong side of history and et cetera hello?

    happyfeet (5546fb)

  3. That reminds me of how strongly the Congressional Black Caucus condemned Netanyahu speaking before Congress as “disrespectful” to Prsident Obama.

    Dana (86e864)

  4. Wait a second…I thought political agitation was illegal in churches? Or is that only sometimes?

    Willie Lee (42421d)

  5. Anti-Semitism is an old phenomenon in the black culture. I first noticed it with my otherwise exemplary black nursemaid who raised my sister and myself. If we did something bad, she would say “That is a Jew thing to do !”

    I think it came from resentment toward the small shopkeepers that blacks were dependent on in the ghettos of New York and Chicago. The same thing is seen in Lows Angeles but with Koreans.

    My illiterate great grandfather who was a successful farmer in Illinois and raised 12 children, was described as anti-Semitic by my father and the reason was similar. Illiterate people were suspicious of those who were literate and especially if they were good at math and business. They were always concerned about being cheated.

    Jews were often barred from owning land and tended to gravitate to small business and money lending, which was banned by the Church as “Usury.” The Muslims have similar rules. When Israel was founded, many young Jews wanted to be farmers to show they could do heavy labor and raise crops. It was important in their self image.

    Don’t ask me why there are so few black businesses. It is a puzzle. Maybe it’s like the shortage of auto mechanics in India as the British tended to denigrate such manual work.

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  6. Everything I ever needed to know about the “Reverend” Al Sharpton came to me by way of Tawana Brawley.

    Bill H (2a858c)

  7. Sorry, Mike K, but I don’t believe one nursemaids comments exemplifies black cultural anti-Semitism. I come fro the heart of Philly and grew up with blacks and Jews, even my first wife was Jewish. I noticed no more ant-Semitism among blacks than anyone else back then. Matter of fact, the Italians were the most racist people I ever met. They hated everybody from blacks to Jews to Irish to polish.

    The small shopkeepers as you put it were first generation immigrants. They settled with fellow immigrants and opened deli’s, groceries, shoe repair and other small businesses needed in their communities and by their people. Their kids went on to larger businesses like car dealerships, shopping centers and real estate. Since they earned more money than their parents they sent their kid to college, broke down the barriers and created lawyers, doctors, accountants and engineers. And the shopkeepers in LA and SF were Jews just like in Chicago and New York. When they moved on the new wave of Koreans took their place. The Jews were here first though. Wouldn’t it be cool if the blacks took to building the small businesses in their communities instead of wave after wave of new immigrants? But they’d have to give up too many “programs” to do it.

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  8. I don’t know how well this will play.

    A large part of the turmoil in black communities (e.g. “Black Lives Matter”) is a profound disappointment in the Obama era. Election of a black President was supposed to bring about a golden era, but instead has been little change and most of that for the worse.

    Certainly blacks want to blame someone (anyone) other than Obama, but that doesn’t mean they intend to go to the well for him with a spring in their step. Or Hillary, either.

    Think of how YOU feel about Boehner and McConnell, then project that on the disappointment of African-Americans with Obama.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  9. At the Daley Center, if I had a black judge and a Jewish opposing lawyer, I’d get the benefit of the doubt on a close question. I asked other lawyers, not Jewish, if it was my imagination and they said I was right, that was their experience too.

    nk (dbc370)

  10. Actually Hoagie, when I was growing up in Bed-Stuy back in the 50’s the only merchants there were Blacks or Jews; and there was never that much animosity between them. I noticed the animosity rising in the 60’s with the radicalization of the Civil Rights movement and the rise of the Black Muslims. Both groups were virulently anti-white, and the only whites around were those Jewish merchants. Of course one of the differences between the central cities then, and the central cities now; was the makeup of the black population. Due to housing segregation, all blacks: from doctors to janitors all lived in the same neighborhoods. Now the only ones left in the central cities, are the ones who are either too stupid or too lazy, to get out. Noe the majority of blacks – though you wouldn’t believe it from how we are constantly portrayed in the media – live in the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas.

    Mike Giles (f0cdc4)

  11. Anti-Semitism is an old phenomenon in the black culture.

    That’s an interesting paradox because the black and Jewish communities are both devoutly, unhealthily liberal, sharing preferences in terms of politics, policies and politicians. Yet anti-semitism has a record of being oddly pronounced amongst a not-small portion of black America. However, that antipathy is evident among many liberals in general, black or white, Christian or secular, domestic or foreign.

    commentarymagazine.com, July 2015: Pollster Frank Luntz briefly generated shock waves this week with a survey showing the abysmal view of Israel held by Democratic opinion leaders. Inter alia, 47 percent deemed Israel racist, with only 32 percent disagreeing, and a whopping 76 percent said Israel has too much influence on U.S. foreign policy. But in truth, it shouldn’t be news to anyone by now that anti-Israel sentiment, like its kissing cousin anti-Semitism, is primarily the province of the liberal elites. I’ve written before about a German study showing that educated elites, rather than the far-right fringes, are the wellspring of anti-Semitism in that country…

    [A] group of German and Israeli researchers decided to analyze German textbooks to see what exactly German schools are teaching their students. They examined 1,200 history, geography and social studies textbooks from five German states, and concluded that these books portray Israel almost exclusively as a militarist, warmongering society. Israel’s robust democracy, respect for human rights and other achievements are absent in these books. The illustrations consist of “tendentious and one-sided photographic presentations” of Israeli soldiers threatening or inflicting violence on Palestinians.

    “Occupation and settlements” are depicted as the main obstacles to peace; the fact that both Israelis and Palestinians have claims to the land goes unmentioned, and Palestinian terror gets a free pass – or as the report puts it, most of the authors “find it difficult to unequivocally call Palestinian violence against Israeli civilians acts of terror.”

    But who writes the textbooks that give these pupils such a warped view of Israel? Hint: It’s not the neo-Nazi skinheads. It’s the liberal elites.

    Mark (9abec5)

  12. What is sad to me, and all the more shame to Sharpton, is that instead of citing those in the community who are serving their country as wonderful examples of a life with purpose, he is instead demeaning their choice to enlist with is manipulative shtick. I would at least hope that the parents of the enlisted as well as those savvy to this grifter’s shtick would make a rousing stand against his efforts with the Iran deal.

    Dana (86e864)

  13. For example: “Stop assuming we are that stupid!”

    Dana (86e864)

  14. I do think that people like Sharpton are dangerous, throwing gasoline on racial fires. But when he annoys me too much, I cue up this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CifYWxJXaI

    It makes me feel better.

    Simon Jester (d2c15d)

  15. I think the black elites dislike any minority who “overachieve” economically, academically etc.
    That is why some first/second generation Asians can’t get into UC.
    The black elites don’t like the Koreans, Syrians, etc that run businesses in black neighborhoods either.
    Around here the group that despises blacks the most are the hipanics… mexicans in particular think blacks are lazy and unwilling to work hard to get ahead… they just want it handed to them.
    Had a conversation with a recent immigrant who left Atlanta because of the strongarm robberies by blacks on payday (lots of hispanics cash their checks in convenience stores.. and they always carry cash because they don’t have a safe place to keep it)

    steveg (fed1c9)

  16. would counter a coordinated national effort against Obama’s historic diplomatic achievement.

    Obama prevents car stereo theft by affixing a bumper sticker which reads “Hide-a-key in passenger side wheelwell.”

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  17. Sharpton must love rhe Obama administration. With them in office, he isn’t the biggest embarassment to African-Americans on the national stage.

    C. S. P. Schofield (ab2cdc)

  18. I noticed no more ant-Semitism among blacks than anyone else back then.

    I think our experiences are different. My anecdote about my nursemaid was not dispositive. It was just my first exposure to anti-Semitism. I think I was about 6. We had Jewish neighbors and I was once a member of the Young Men’s Jewish Council. They had a basketball court and the YMCA did not. My neighborhood in Chicago had three or four synagogues in a mile radius.

    I have seen the same thing all over Los Angeles. Maybe Philadelphia is different.

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  19. When I was younger I thought everybody with a New York accent was Jewish.

    That’s the way Jews talk, right? And they do rule the world, right?

    It wasn’t a discriminatory thing. Just ignorance. In fact I think it was the thought of accidentally offending someone that perpetuated my ignorance. Somethings you just don’t ask.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  20. I have seen the same thing all over Los Angeles. Maybe Philadelphia is different.

    Mike K (90dfdc) — 8/16/2015 @ 4:19 pm

    Well, some of it. There are parts of LA that qualify as “Little Tel Aviv” or “Little Jerusalem”. Areas like South Central or Chavez Ravine? Not so much.

    Bill H (2a858c)

  21. Wait a second…I thought political agitation was illegal in churches? Or is that only sometimes?

    Willie Lee (42421d) — 8/16/2015 @ 12:57 pm

    THIS right here is the difference between Dems and GOPs. If there were churches lobbying for Romney back during the last election, there wouldn’t have been a nanosecond of hesitation on the Dem side to threaten tax exemption status.

    Where are the Republicans? I know the argument. If you attack the Trinity United Church you just make religious martyrs.

    The thing I’ve noticed about martyrs, nobody cares about them. Hundred times more so for tax martyrs.

    Shut up or start paying taxes like any other lobbyist – should be the policy.
    The wonderful thing about it is decent people already abide by that policy, and will not be affected.
    Scumbags who hide behind false piety, like Rev Al, will get the ton of brick falling on them.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  22. Sharpton is no Tommie Smith or John Carlos.

    mg (31009b)

  23. I think the black elites dislike any minority who “overachieve” economically, academically etc.

    But that ethos in general, one where resentment towards success or successful people is nurtured or coddled, and where observing a certain level of conformity in order to achieve success is deemed fuddy-duddy and boringly capitalist, and where the wealth of people is to be exploited, particularly by the government, is evident in quite a few liberals or leftists of all races and ethnicities.

    Black America is one of the most — if not THE most — monolithically liberal or leftwing groups in this society, bar none, and so if one wants to see a reflection of what liberalism does to a place or people, look no further than a large cross section of black communities throughout the US.

    So liberalism incubates kinder and gentler? Uh, er, perhaps not.

    Mark (9abec5)

  24. I think blacks are less inclined to hide antisemitism than whites, but I have encountered antisemitic attitudes from whites in about the same proportion. The basic trait shared among them was, as Dr. K indicates, ignorance and lack of education.
    Or perhaps it is merely that educated people among bith races know they need to hide it because it is it unacceptable.

    As to Sharpton underevaluating the risks…remember that for a professional leftie like him, those are desirable outcones.

    kishnevi (294553)

  25. bith=both
    outcones=outcomes

    kishnevi (294553)

  26. “Clearly lobbyists and others like AIPAC are pushing on their side, and there needs to be an organized effort on the other side.”
    ———

    Amazing — in thirty years, this despicable hustler hasn’t changed his unabashedly anti-Semitic, race-baiting rhetoric and demagoguery, except that, now, instead of being thoroughly discredited and persona non grata, he’s a frequent visitor at the White House, gifted with a TV platform from a major media outlet and is now cloaked in the shroud of legitimacy as a black “leader.” Sharpton started his career inciting violence against the Jewish owner of Freddie’s Fashion Mart in Harlem, resulting in numerous deaths; now he’s doing the same thing, only on a grander stage, with exponentially greater consequences.

    Guy Jones (173efd)

  27. I worked at a clinical laboratory in So Cal; we had lots of Armenian ex-pats there. I have never heard such open and vicious antisemitism as came from the mouths of some of the (female) Armenians….When I referred to a Russian ex-pat as being Russian, one Armenian remarked, “she’s not Russian, she is a Jew” even though the lady in question was born and raised in Russia…

    champ (56cd04)

  28. In his famous 1963 essay “My Negro Problem–And Ours”, Norman Podhoretz wrote of being regularly insulted, threatened and beaten by black children expressing hatred of Jews.

    pst314 (ae6bd1)

  29. 15. steveg “I think the black elites dislike any minority who “overachieve” economically, academically etc.”

    I think you can remove “elites” from that comment. There is plenty of Jew-hatred coming from non-elite blacks. I suspect that the only difference is that the elites are more articulate and less likely to themselves engage in physical violence.

    pst314 (ae6bd1)

  30. living proof of the adage: “When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail

    MJN1957 (6f981a)


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