As we observe what is taking place in Sanford, Florida – not with the shooting of Trayvon Martin as such, but rather the parasites who are feeding from what is well on its way to becoming a carcass of a city – I’m sharing a syndicated column from 2006. I share it again to show that if you set up the lights, cameras, and the opportunity to blame the white man, Al Sharpton (and the other parasites) will come.
I wrote the following column six years ago and yet nothing has changed about the way Sharpton does business. My friends, it is up to those of us who understand the offense being perpetrated by Sharpton, Jackson, Obama, and their minions, to stand against it. We cannot suffer our communities to be destroyed by those who use racism and animus as currency to enrich their coffers, or in the case of Obama, for reelection. We must speak out – we must demand our community officials not capitulate to the pariahs who have made their fortunes by inciting unrest and hatred.
It is not easy for those of who fight against this, but fight against it we must, and that means all of us who love truth. On a very personal note, I confess that the ignorance of so many grieves me deeply. The following column could have been written today – I would only have needed to change the name of the city and the name of the criminal.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, SHARPTON:
Race is the viscous grease Al Sharpton uses to lubricate his flim-flam machine. Adding the “Reverend” moniker affords him cover by having a credible partner, i.e., God, who doesn’t want a cut of his ill-gotten gains. And not atypical of race-hucksters, he makes his choices based on what will garner him the most cachet.
Sharpton doesn’t care about right or wrong, innocence or guilt – he cares only that he is able to claim racial prejudice/intolerance as the primary causal factor of whatever cause celebre he stands to cash in on. The fact that the mainstream media present the endozoic Sharpton as a leader of “his” people is an affront to reasonable and cogent minds.
Sharpton is an opportunistic vulture, with nothing in his curriculum vitae that should elevate him above sidewalk minstrel, but to quote the great metaphysician, Don King, “only in America” – to which I add, “Can an Al Sharpton be heralded by the same liberals and mainstream media that curse and belittle Justice Clarence Thomas?”
With the Nov. 25 shooting death of 23 year-old Sean Bell by New York undercover police officers in the early morning hours of his wedding day, Sharpton is now being paraded around City Hall more than a dance hall madame in an old mining town on payday.
The death of Bell, was, in a word, the tragic (even if predictable) end of a wasted life. However, that cannot be said of two heroes viciously murdered, execution style, on March 10, 2003, in the line of duty. Two black heroes Sharpton refuses to acknowledge.
Detective Rodney Andrews and Detective James Nemorin were part of the Cobra Team of the NYPD firearms unit, working undercover to break up and arrest a gang of gunrunning teens operating out of a black, Staten Island public housing project. Detective Andrews, age 34, left behind two sons. Detective Nemorin, age 36, left behind a wife and three young children. They left behind clean records as citizens, accomplishment and a world in which they tried to make a difference.
Bell, at the very best, left behind children out of wedlock and a life of crime, drugs and guns. It is doubtful (albeit unconfirmed at this writing) if he finished high school. He had no real job and no real prospects for the future. And no, I’m not saying he should have been gunned down by police in the street – unless they were acting in self-defense.
One of the many things I find so offensive about Sharpton is, unlike Jesse Jackson, there is credible evidence he was called to be a preacher. However, the lure of riches and fame has blinded him to the “Truth of Him” he was called to proclaim. We are forced to ask what kind of man, much less a so-called preacher, can praise evil and curse good?
Almost as egregious is the community’s now making a saint out of the gang banger-criminal wannabe, who did nothing for the neighborhood but prey upon it and drag it further down into the abyss of drugs, guns and violence. And all of this while Mayor Bloomberg looks like a deer caught in the stage lights of the Al Sharpton show.
Ultimately, we will witness all of the usual race-baiters doing a “bash the police” and “black people got it so bad” face-time tour through New York. But I guarantee not one of them will stop to visit the families of Detectives Nemorin and Andrews.
They will curse the police and pontificate, while Bloomberg decides how much of the city he will give away to appease Sharpton. The police will be sued and probably lose – in which case a worthless lawyer will get richer, the police will be further emasculated, the family will squander the settlement money, and the squalid neighborhoods they live in will continue to be held hostage by drugs, guns and death. The next time police have to defend themselves, the perpetrator will be the kindest, gentlest, most wonderful human being ever to have been born – even if he was beating one of his girlfriends, selling guns and dope, and high on crack 15 minutes before the police were forced to intervene.
I find it interesting that these people continue to demand that police be held accountable, but when will they hold themselves and their own accountable? Why is it they don’t give a twit about black gang bangers killing one another, they certainly don’t care about black gang bangers murdering police, as evidenced by their proud indifference to the murders of Andrews and Nemorin. Why aren’t Sharpton and the so-called leaders in those housing projects identifying gangs and working with police to rid their neighborhoods of that element? Wouldn’t a real man of God be more interested in reaching the people and neighborhood for Jesus than he would be in hustling the police department and mayor for filthy lucre? But then, I guess I answer my own question. (WND.com; 12/5/06)
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Ive learned a whole lot online before 4 years. The many my knowledge I attribute to reading great blogs like yours. Thank you so much!
amado balmes: thk you…
The more things change the more they stay the same, both these guys have the gall to call themselves Reverend. What they truly are is Satan’s Disciples because they seemed to always bring out the worst in people…
henry yip: reverends of damnation…
Mychal, your article is great! One planned crisis after another. This race crisis has been in the making for a long time and we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg and Sharpton and minions are going after it head strong. Everytime we have a new? crisis, it takes away from the important issues at hand such as a government that spends too much and will not return the federal government to its Constitutional Boundaries, illege president and Holder’s impeachment; Distractions must keep coming to keep focus off of evil doers/issues. Right now, no matter who wins the Presidential election, there will be mayhem in the streets all promoted by the race simpletons… But, this Nation must Endure – be brought back to some kind of normalcy. Here in America, In God We Still Trust!
marilyn: they are doing obama’s bidding…
I have a great fear that Obama’s secret goal is to so injure race relations that fanatics on both sides will soon resort to violence. I predict there will be well publicized and prevented attempt on Obama’s life before the next election; he will then declare martial law and the election and our way of life will be over. I hope and pray I am wrong.
This is when Americans, not just the Tea Party, marches on Washington and be ready for some ugliness.
marilyn: agreed…
gary thomsen: his secret goal is a communist state…
Mychal – your insightful articles the past few days have certainly shined that disinfecting/cleansing light on a situation that has been allowed to fester for too long. I can’t help wondering in the back of my mind if the New Black Panthers are the “Civilian National Security Force” that Obama mentioned back in 2008 & only a few picked up on. Ecc. 1:9 “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Obama is setting things back by at least 100 years-people of all stripes have the same opportunities for achievement. We can only pray the scales fall off their eyes so they see they’re being intentionally held back by people who don’t have their best interests at heart & only care about enriching themselves.
chris: obama is a communist and he is governing like one…
Dear Mychal,
While the facts of the actions are so close this certainly was a suitable forum for a repeat, we have had a substantial increase in the perception of racism, deliberately fomented by one who is able to do so from a platform more powerful than has ever been used before.
I hope I’m wrong, but it is starting to feel like the early seventies again, and I have felt for forty years, we have made constant and consistent progress in eliminating racism as a major factor, and yet, in a short few years, it seems possible all that gain can be gone forever.
I pray I’m wrong, and I pray we are able to elect someone who will not allow what has happened over these three years have the full intended impact.
Your answer above is exactly on target, we do kneel in judgment when our time comes. May God Bless you and your ministry.
Sincerely,
John McClain
Vanceboro, NC
john mcclain: the racism is being foist upon us…and just as in the 70s we cannot succumb to it…
Sharpton, Jackson, and Obama are the stereotypical hucksters like has been seen in movies over the years and it is really amaizing that so many people seeing that still listen to those fools.The big problem with “fools” like them is that they will get people killed spouting their racial hatered disguised as “seeking fairness and justice”. Thanks Mychal for bravely speaking the truth.
carpenter: its not bravery my friend…its willingness…obama is a communist and he is behaving like one…
I saw sharpton on stage the other day speaking more of his nonsense on the Trayvon case, the sound was off because I didn’t want to hear his crap, but saw the theatrical crocidial tears streaming down his face. I thought it was funny, but if I was a supporter of that idiot I would have been embarrased, but I have the feeling that his REAL supporters loved him for it.
carpenter: obama loves him for it…everything he is doing is designed to deflect attention away from focussing on obama…
Mr. Sharpton’s continual rush to judgement in these sad instances are legion and all started with the lie that was Ms. Bradley. And, it continues to this day – it never ceases to amaze his picks and choices for issues where a mere smattering of facts are available before beginning his “righteous” and “racist” rants!! His failed “show” on a cable “news” network speaks volumes to his viability outside of his own little snake oil show!!
loto: indeed…
loto: indeed…
lol: indeed…
Mychal, your last paragraph is perfect - it says it all! At least you make me feel like there are good people out there who know what is right in this crazy world. If only people didn’t push God out of their lives. I know He is the guiding light we all need.
dlb: amen, amen, amen…
It grieves me to see the only major television outlet with the slightest hint of political conservatism which could stand for reason and at least point to the truth for its viewers cowardly capitulate to political correctness stopping short of it in their analysis and reporting. Fox icon Bill O’Reilly while professing to be fair and balanced would not admit that during Obama’s uncalled for presidential interjection into the Florida shooting when he said “If he had a son he would look like…” the victim had anything to do with fanning the flames of the issue. That is nothing more than cover for the hate mongers.
I usually agree with O’Reilly, but on this one he has it all wrong. Bill Sr., you’re absolutely right. If this had been a “non-white” (Black, Asian, Hispanic …) accused and a white victim, and if the POTUS was Geo. W. Bush who commented about “the victim looks like my (would-be) son”, Al “Twana Brawley” Sharpton would be all over him for promoting racism. You might call Sharpton a snake … but then again, you’d be insulting snakes.
Brian, you are right and Rush Limbaugh agreed with us today on this very point. He sights intimidation and the fear of being called racists.
bill sr: thats their bludgeon…we cannot allow fear of being called names to stand in our way…
brian: lol well said….
bill sr: o’reilly is wrong…
Your rants of yesterday an today have struck a cord of sadness in my heart. How this world needs a Saviour. If only the scales could be removed from their eyes.
Forgive them Lord for they know not what they do.
roy: that’s just it my friend…these people do know what they’re doing…
IMHO Al Sharpton is the face of racism and racist profiteering of the 21st century and I connot stand the sight of the man nor will I listen to 3 seconds of his racist rants.
rod: that’s three seconds longer than I do…
Mychal, the old, you hit the nail on the head, applies here! To bad that this is probably not the last time we will have to go through with these clowns. I can only hope and pray that one day they will overplay their hand and be seen for what they are.
olegario martinez: my friend its good to hear from you…they will either repent, confess their sins and seek the Lord here or face His judgement hereafter…
Exactly the point! We all too often consider things from the here-and-now point of view and don’t often look at what eternity holds for all of us, including the likes of ‘reverend’ Sharpton and ‘reverend’ Jackson.
As the scriptures warn all who will give heed:
“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and yet loses his soul?”
Obviously, this is of no concern to either of these hucksters. That being the case, Jesus Himself states “they have their reward”.
fullcirclethinker: well said…