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Feb. 22, 2021 - Epoch Times

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How Did Race-Hustling Al Sharpton Become Democrat 'Kingmaker' | Larry Elder

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	Among those calling for the conviction of Donald Trump for the impeachment charge of incitement to insurrection is none other than Al, no justice, no peace Sharpton.
	I kid you not.
	I've been involved in marches and demonstrations for years, all the way up till now.
	You've been involved for the last several years.
	But I don't think any of us has ever been accused of trying to have an insurrection or have called on violence, even if the violence happened days away from us, where you directly could even try to conjure this up.
	Let's know members of Congress.
	A big proponent of the lie, the con, that systemic racism still bedevils America is none other than Al Sharpton.
	Do you know that Al Sharpton has now become a Democrat kingmaker?
	Look at these headlines.
	The Left Wing Atlantic.
	Sharpton occupies a distinct space.
	Other than Barack Obama, there is no better known black leader in the country, nor one with bigger reach.
	The National Action Network has 100 chapters across America, and Sharpton himself hosts a radio show on 70 stations every weekday, and a TV show on MSNBC on Saturdays and Sundays." Now, once upon a time, sensible people thought of Sharpton as a race-hustling demagogue who made his bones by falsely accusing a white man of raping Tawana Brawley.
	You don't remember Tawana Brawley?
	Tawana Brawley is a 16-year-old girl whose story is the talk of New York these days.
	The New York State teenager who claims that she was abducted and raped by six white men.
	In the late 1980s, Tawana Brawley became a household name as her horrific stories spread across the nation.
	We had KKK written across her chest and nigger and nigger across her stomach.
	Leading to widespread outrage.
	We want to expose the facts in these crimes that you do against black people.
	We are not going to let this ground be the scapegoat of a corrupt system.
	We want to show the world how low-down, dog-ish, and callous this state of New York is.
	Her lawyers charged that Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagonis was among the girls' attackers and demanded his arrest.
	We have the facts and the evidence that an assistant district attorney and a state trooper did this.
	There were scores of false leads.
	An acquaintance said he was with Brawley.
	He wasn't.
	A man claimed to have secret tapes that cast doubt on the veracity of Brawley's advisers.
	He didn't.
	We started a rumor about a nine-fingered man just to see how long it would take.
	For a press report, you know, to call us and start to ask about the nine-fingered man.
	I think it took two days.
	But such moments of levity were brief.
	A trooper starts up the steps of the armory, and these demonstrators decided they weren't going to let him in.
	He grabbed the demonstrator that was fighting him.
	Next thing we knew, Reverend Sharpton was accusing me of kicking a blind man.
	That bothered me.
	Sharpton called Cuomo a racist, compared Abrams to Hitler, and said Brawley would go to jail rather than cooperate with the investigators.
	Maddox would actually say that the attorney general of the state of New York was masturbating over pictures of 15-year-old Tawana Brawley.
	They looked up and they saw Maddox, Mason, and Sharpton.
	What's wrong with them?
	I'm not in trouble.
	What was wrong with us was practice didn't choose us.
	And after seven months, 6,000 pages of testimony, 180 witnesses, the grand jury ruled that the whole thing was a big fat lie.
	And Sharpton was successfully sued for defamation, found unanimously liable by a multi-racial jury.
	About six months after the hoax was unmasked, Brawley's former boyfriend told Newsday that Tawana had invented the scheme, apparently to avoid a beating by her mother's boyfriend after running away from home.
	Again, the entire affair was a lie.
	And one of Sharpton's acolytes turned against him and publicly said, Sharpton knew it was a lie.
	And when Sharpton was told it was a lie, he said, it doesn't matter.
	We'll be the baddest N-words in the country once this thing goes down.
	There's absolutely no way that this served any good social purpose.
	If you concoct a rape, then you undermine the credibility of women who are raped.
	If you concoct a rape and turn it into a race crime, then you undermine true victims of race crimes.
	So, any remorse, Reverend Al?
	My name is Tawana Brawley.
	I'm not a liar and I'm not crazy.
	It was 1987.
	Tawana Brawley was a 15-year-old who claimed she was raped by six white men in law enforcement, and Al Sharpton took up her cause.
	But there was no forensic evidence of any sexual attack, and there was evidence Tawana made up the whole story.
	The case, labeled a hoax, was dismissed, and Sharpton was forced to pay $65,000 to those he had named.
	But in all this time, he has never voiced any regret.
	You have gone back and looked at things with such a clear eye.
	You've apologized, you've asked for forgiveness, except on Tawana Barali.
	I don't get it.
	I'll be honest with you.
	I have thought about that a million times.
	I just don't believe they treated that case first.
	And now, as mentioned, Sharpton has a TV show at MSNB Hee Haw on the weekends.
	One of his colleagues, Joe Scarborough, who used to be a Republican Florida congressperson, who at one time was not all that fond of Sharpton.
	Let's bring in Reverend Al Sharpton to talk about a couple of cases going on right now.
	Reverend, it's always great to see you.
	Thanks for being here with us.
	Good to see you.
	And let's not get into that resolution that Joe Scarborough introduced in 2000 when he was a House member from Florida condemning Al Sharpton for, among other things, Al Sharpton's anti-Semitism.
	Mr.
	Scarborough's resolution began by saying, whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith, as blood-sucking Jews and Jew bastards.
	So my question to you is, does Mr.
	Scarborough's assertion that you said these things, is that true, or did you not say those things?
	They are patently untrue.
	You never said any of those things?
	Hey, Reverend Sharpton.
	Hi.
	How are you doing?
	In the spirit of Donald Sterling, do you think you should be banned from TV for all the racist stuff you've said over the years?
	What racist stuff?
	You know, when you refer to Jews as white interlopers.
	Never refer to Jews as white interlopers.
	What are you talking about?
	When you drop the N-word on David Dinkins.
	No, no, no.
	If you're going to say something, you ought to be correct.
	We had exactly what Don Sterling said.
	When did I call Jews, not white interlopers?
	Freddie's Mark.
	Yep, that's right.
	You called him a white interloper.
	But doesn't it take some serious balls on your end to accuse somebody of racism?
	You went from one guy who pays people off the books that was wrong.
	You called a Jew or white into Oprah and you dropped the N-word.
	You see how you lied.
	Let's get back to the resolution, shall we?
	Joe Scarborough then wrote, whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as white interlopers and diamond merchants, have you ever referred to members of the Jewish faith as white interlopers or diamond merchants?
	No, sir.
	I referred to one in Harlem, an individual who Who I didn't even know was Jewish, as an interloper, and said I should never have referred to his race.
	You call a Jew or white interloper, and you drop the n-word.
	This brings us to Crown Heights, 1991.
	The problem began just after eight last night when a car driven by a Hasidic man went out of control, eventually slamming into a pair of seven-year-old children.
	Gavin Cato was dead on arrival at the hospital.
	His cousin, Angela Cato, remains in serious condition tonight.
	The station wagon's driver was treated and released from a different hospital after being rushed there by the private Hetzola ambulance, and it's that treatment which ignited the initial debate.
	A mob of about 150 angry people stormed its way up Eastern Parkway towards the school building.
	Violence exploded as the mob spotted news vans, forcing the media inside the building.
	Four officers were hurt.
	They were hit with rocks and glass.
	News van windows smashed out.
	The mob yelling their anger with the mayor.
	Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest in the Crown Heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a sign that read, the white man is the devil.
	Did you march next to a sign that said- I have no recollection of that.
	I've marched in Many things where there were signs that I did or did not agree with.
	Can you imagine what they would have done to Trump if he had said a fraction of what Reverend Al has said?
	Have you ever referred to African Americans who disagree with you as yellow and then the n-word?
	I don't know that.
	I've referred to people as names.
	I don't know if it's because they disagree with me.
	But I have said things about blacks and whites.
	I'm glad you made it clear that I don't only attack whites.
	Thank you for that.
	Have you ever referred to African Americans who disagree with you as Negro militants?
	I didn't know that was a derogatory statement.
	I didn't say it was.
	Just ask if you used it.
	I don't know.
	I don't recall.
	Have you ever said, if the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house?
	No, there was a man named Mordecai Levy who had been charged with Some terrorist acts who threatened to march on me and several other activists in New Jersey.
	And he said he was going to come deal with my hairstyle.
	And I'm referring to his hairstyle.
	I said for him to pin it and come on.
	I was not talking about all Jews, no.
	This brings us to Freddy's Fashion Mart.
	Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton's vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and in particular, a Jewish landlord arising from a simple landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant, incited widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent people.
	Roland James Smith Jr., a Harlem resident with a criminal record, Going back 30 years, walked into Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store, pulled out a gun, ordered all black customers to leave, spilled paint thinner on several bins of clothing, and set them on fire, a fire that resulted in killing eight people, including Smith.
	Smith had been part of a group of picketers led by Sharpton, who had been protesting the eviction of the black owner who was subletting from a Jewish tenant.
	When the tragedy occurred, Al Sharpton denied all responsibility and said, people are trying to put me in the middle of this.
	I only came one time.
	I met with the people from the church.
	I was only there a matter of minutes.
	I was not the leader of this.
	However, the Jewish Action Alliance released copies of a tape containing speeches broadcast on black radio stations made by Sharpton and others during rallies.
	The transcript contained demagogic language.
	The Jewish landlord is called a cracker by one of Sharpton's associates and a white interloper by Sharpton.
	Freddie's Mark.
	Yep, that's right.
	You called him a white interloper.
	But doesn't it take some serious balls on your end to accuse somebody of racism?
	And we haven't even started on Sharpton being $5 million light in taxes, according to the New York Times.
	The Reverend Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil rights leader, but he still carries baggage from his early days as a fire-breathing agitator.
	Government records obtained by the Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and penalties.
	Speaking of trouble, now this.
	Big tax troubles for MSNBC host Al Sharpton.
	He reportedly owes more than $3 million in federal taxes.
	And Liz McDonald tells us that other people from Chuck Berry to Leona Helmsley have gone to jail for owing less to Uncle Sam.
	According to a New York Times report, the Reverend Al Sharpton owes $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and the National Action Network.
	And I'm sure you know about the Democratic keymaker Al Sharpton being on an FBI surveillance tape agreeing to deal cocaine.
	Now tonight we also have gotten our hands on an HBO sports video of an undercover FBI agent acting as a drug trafficker negotiating a cocaine deal with none other than Al Sharpton himself.
	Take a look at this.
	I can get a pew for about $35,000 a kilo.
	But I gotta get...
	More than one!
	I mean, we're going to do this thing.
	Ten kilograms is like 300,000.
	That's a drop in bucket.
	We can go bigger.
	Every kilogram we bring in, 3500 kilos.
	So I'm bringing in 10, you make $35,000.
	But that's the thing.
	That's the chicken market.
	He can do it 100 times over.
	He might do it a supplier.
	Now that video is reportedly from 1983.
	And after it aired, Al Sharpton threatened to sue HBO for millions of dollars.
	Now, O.J. Simpson, you know, he brutally murdered Ron and Nicole.
	Jamal, you may not know, he brutally murdered, execution style, a Philadelphia police officer named Daniel Faulkner.
	No question that he did it.
	The prosecutor said it was the strongest case I ever had, end of quote.
	Not apparently to Mr.
	Sharpton.
	OJ is home, but Mumi Abu-Jamal ain't home.
	And we won't stop till all of our people that need a chance in an awkward and unbalanced criminal justice system can come home.
	Tawana Brawley, Crown Heights, Freddy's Fashion Mart, $5 million light in taxes, no justice, no peace.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Al Sharpton, Democrat Kingmaker.
	That's a lot of crap.
	Brother, you have your time!
	Brother, no!
	The hell no!
	I've got it.
	Let's bring in Reverend Al Sharpton to talk about a couple of cases going on right now.
	Reverend, it's always great to see you.
	Thanks for being here with us.
	Good to see you.
	Finally, Democrats want to rename forts who are named after Confederate generals, and they want to rename schools named after slave owners like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
	I kid you not.
	Then what are we going to name it?
	We're going to name it after the Reverend Al Sharpton?
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