Will Al Sharpton’s followers burn our stores if we don’t elect his friend Obama?

by Bill Levinson

We previously described how Barack Obama (along with Hillary Clinton and John Edwards) appeared at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network: a racist and anti-Semitic hate organization and, given its conduct prior to the arson of Freddy’s Fashion Mart in 2005, arguably a violent hate group. Now it seems as though Obama advocates or at least excuses racial violence himself, since he blames the Los Angeles riots on the acquittal of white police officers in the Rodney King beating case. There is NO place in a civilized society for ANYONE who advocates lynch mob justice–the kind that the Ku Klux Klan often applied to African-Americans who were acquitted by the jury system–or the mass murder of innocent people because someone didn’t like the outcome of a trial. It is now easily understandable why Obama appeared at an organization that shouted racial and anti-Semitic epithets, along with threats to burn a Jewish-owned store in Harlem, before one of its adherents made good on the threat and killed seven people in the bargain.

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As reported by Black Women for Obama:

Most of the mayors here know that those riots didn’t erupt over night; there had been a “quiet riot” building up in Los Angeles and across this country for years.

If you had gone to any street corner in Chicago or Baton Rouge or Selma or Trenton or Arcola, Mississippi — you would have found the same young men and women without hope, without prospects, and without a sense of destiny other than life on the edge — the edge of the law, the edge of the economy, the edge of family structures and communities.

Those “quiet riots” that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths. They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better. You tell yourself, my school will always crumble. There will never be a good job waiting for me to excel at. There will never be a place that I can be proud of and I can afford to call my home. That despair quietly simmers and makes it impossible to build strong communities and neighborhoods. And then one afternoon a jury says, “Not guilty” — or a hurricane hits — and that despair is revealed for the world to see.

Much of what we saw on our television screens 15 years ago was Los Angeles expressing a lingering, ongoing, pervasive legacy — a tragic legacy out of the tragic history this country has never fully come to terms with. This is not to excuse the violence of bashing in a man’s head or destroying someone’s store and their life’s work. That kind of violence is inexcusable and self-defeating. It does, however, describe the reality of many communities around this country.

From one side of his mouth, Obama condemns the Los Angeles riots, in which more than four dozen people were killed, as “inexcusable and self-defeating.” From the other side, he says that a jury’s acquittal of several white police officers for allegedly beating Rodney King was responsible. Obama’s association with Al Sharpton suggests, in fact, that this is exactly what he means; African-Americans are justified in rioting or engaging in lynch mob justice when the jury system doesn’t deliver the verdict they want. Obama seems to have forgotten two things he really needs to remember:

(1) Caucasians did not go on a rampage and kill dozens of innocent people when a jury acquitted O.J. Simpson of allegedly murdering two white people.
(2) It was once common practice for the Ku Klux Klan to drag Black men who were awaiting trial from jail, or those whom juries had acquitted from their homes, and string them up because the Klan thought they were guilty. If Obama thinks there is any justification for behaving in this manner, he is clearly unfit to hold any position of public trust or responsibility.

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Yes, the police officers were acquitted of beating Rodney King, and O.J. Simpson was acquitted of a crime that everybody thinks he committed. We recommend that anyone who might have to serve on a jury watch Twelve Angry Men with Henry Fonda. The story begins with a Black defendant–whom a bigoted white juror is all too ready to convict–whom all but one juror thinks is guilty. As the jurors deliberate, things come out that begin to create a reasonable doubt–like the fact that the witness who thought she saw the defendant at the crime scene had not been wearing her glasses at the time, and that another witness who thought he had heard the defendant threaten to kill the victim could not have done so because an elevated train was roaring past at the time. The trial ends with an acquittal, and the audience never learns who actually committed the murder. A good detective story almost always ends with the revelation of the real killer’s identity, but Twelve Angry Men’s mission is to teach us how our justice system works. The prosecutor is not allowed to ask the defendant, “If you didn’t do it, who did?” If Barack Obama does not understand this, and thinks there is some justification for burning a city and killing more than four dozen people because someone doesn’t like an acquittal, he should not even be in the Senate or the Illinois State Assembly, let alone the White House.

Al Sharpton has certainly made it clear that he regards himself as judge and jury in all interracial crimes, whether real or imaginary. He was found guilty of defaming several people in the infamous Tawana Brawley scandal, and he also sided with Mike Nifong in suggesting that the Duke lacrosse players were guilty of raping a Black stripper.

O’REILLY: Why are we standing up for the girl if there is the possibility, based upon evidence, that the girl may have fabricated the story? Why don’t we all pull back and let the authorities investigate and let the legal system work?

SHARPTON: Well, first of all, the authorities have charged there was a crime, so they are not saying that at all. Second of all, people on any side of an argument have the ride to advocate on behalf of who they believe. Thirdly, I think that when the prosecutors went forward, they clearly have said this girl is the victim, so why would we be trying the victim and not the…

O’REILLY: I don’t want to try anybody, but there is enough evidence that has surfaced here. We have evidence that DNA doesn’t match the kids. We have evidence that ABC News uncovered that there is a recording made by a security guard who looked at the victim after she said she was raped and said there was no problem and we have a police officer who found the victim drunk in a car in a 7-Eleven who phoned it in before she went to the hospital. So when you have three elements like that, I say there is reasonable doubt right now.

…SHARPTON: But I think that all of the facts that you have laid out the DA had — and I know this DA is probably not one that is crazy. He would not have proceeded if he did not feel that he could convict. So it tells me that all of what you said is either not true or he has convincing evidence that would certainly knock that out and no one is not letting him proceed. You know, a lot of those community leaders down there, pro and con, wanted a lot of people to come in. I know for a fact asked Jesse Jackson to come, we said we don’t want to be (INAUDIBLE)…

Charges against the Duke Lacrosse players were recently dropped while the individual who filed them, Mike Nifong, is facing ethics charges that could cost him his license to practice law. Two attorneys who worked with Sharpton in the Tawana Brawley case were meanwhile disbarred, thus further underscoring Al Sharpton’s own lack of character, ethics, and integrity.

While whites who are accused of doing anything to Black people are automatically guilty according to Al Sharpton, his followers called a white rape victim, the Central Park jogger who was beaten to a pulp by her assailants, a “whore.” This is the individual with whom Obama chose to appear arm in arm with at Sharpton’s National Action Network: a hate group every bit as repugnant as the Ku Klux Klan.

Obama Warns Of ‘Quiet Riot’ Among Blacks adds,

He introduced his own pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago’s Trinity United as “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian.” He credited Wright with introducing him to Christ, and peppered his speech with Scriptural references, at one point invoking the opening lines of the Lord’s Prayer.

Jeremiah Wright has a long track record of making racist and anti-Israel statements, and of going to Libya with Louis Farrakhan; the same Louis Farrakhan who called the Pope the Antichrist and Judaism a “gutter religion.” Obama’s friend Al Sharpton, however, says Farrakhan is not anti-Semitic; by Sharpton’s standards, he probably isn’t.

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Related: Anti-Semitism, Pure Politics, Racism

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