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What is the Center for Responsible Lending? [Scroll down] Redlining is a scarlet letter banks are desperate to avoid having pinned on them so they go out of their way to appease the various anti-capitalist shakedown groups including but not limited to National Council of La Raza, ACORN, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), Greenlining Institute, National Action Network (Al Sharpton), and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition (Jesse Jackson). At the same time as the Center scolds banks that supposedly don't lend enough money in poor communities, it also excoriates lenders it considers to be involved in so-called predatory lending. Obama's New Partner: Al Sharpton. With his wavy bouffant and medallion necklaces, the Rev. Al Sharpton famously confronted government officials on behalf of black Americans. Now he has found a new role: telling black leaders to quiet their criticisms and give the government a chance. It's the Culture, Stupid. [Scroll down] With blacks overrepresented among single parent families — by 1993, 57 percent of black children were growing up in a single-parent household, as compared to 21 percent of white children — white homeownership rates inevitably outstripped those for black homeownership. In the early 1990s, that gap was at least 25 percentage points, typically around 70 percent for whites and in the low 40s for blacks. The Clintons and their allies, however, refused to acknowledge family breakdown as a problem, let alone as an explanation for the disparity in homeownership rates. Their preferred explanation for just about everything unpleasant was the inevitable "racism." Dare to Ignore Race. Do-gooders have been striving for decades to combat racism through legislation and other policies that outlaw discrimination based upon race. These policies have spawned an industry within and outside of government that has institutionalized the identification, study, and analysis of race. This industry feeds upon the existence of racism to justify even more discussion, funding, and study of racism. It's a self-empowering merry-go-round. The lucrative business of racism. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who give themselves the ludicrous title of Reverend, have the unmitigated gall to proclaim that [Rush] Limbaugh is a polarizing figure in the country. This from a couple of race hustlers who have been living large for several decades with no visible means of support except for the "donations" they received from corporations they've threatened with not so subtle methods of extortion. The Fraud of Progressive Nobility: Forty years of Great Society-inspired welfarism have brought a 70 percent illegitimate birthrate among Blacks — a 218 percent explosion since the LBJ years. The non-Hispanic white illegitimacy rate hovers below 12 percent. Amid a finger-pointing blame fest, "minority advocates" still supply the crutches on which minorities lean. For instance, affirmative action strengthens the haplessness in "protected classes" that motivated liberals to "protect" those classes in the first place. Jesse Jackson Sr. Denies His Own Involvement Shaking Down the Banks. At a speech at Claremont McKenna to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in mid-January, the subject of Jesse Jackson Sr.'s new ire was the "banksters" — Wall Street fat cats, who are causing all of our problems. Naturally, Jackson ignored his own role in housing crisis. As Spokesperson for Black America, Al Sharpton...You're fired! Who died and made Sharpton and Jackson the official spokespersons for black America? The fact that the media consults these guys to speak for black America is racist. Are we a tribe? Are they our chiefs? Senator Reid's vocabulary, &c.. In the old days, Reid would have run to Jackson for absolution, as white politicians were always doing. Seeing Jackson, or calling him, was the equivalent of going to black Americans at large. No longer, which is gratifying. Did Reid seek out Jackson, for his absolution? Not that I noticed. He did, however, seek out Al Sharpton — which must have really stuck in Jackson's craw, and delighted Sharpton. What Is 'Social Justice' Anyway? From Sharpton to Wright, social justice has come to mean redressing the wrongs of the past in the form of government benefits or reparations. The expression has a hint of retribution as in "you owe us." In actuality, the words haven't any real meaning. There are always those who grieve, and as long as the government attempts to satisfy those with a gripe, the plaintive cry for social justice will have irresistible appeal. Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'. The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats' signature healthcare bill. "We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill," Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night [11/18/2009]. "You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man." Obama links civil rights and health care. President Barack Obama used a dinner-time address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to make an impassioned plea for health care reform, placing it in the tradition of the civil rights struggle. Pounding the Table: Health Care and the Race Card. Democrats — frustrated by the public's resistance to their grand scheme to federalize health care and desperate to discredit legitimate opposition by changing the terms of the debate — are pounding the table, invoking allegations of racism as the motivation for the opposition. The notion that a subversive racist element is behind the growing disapproval of President Obama's domestic policy agenda is absurd. High School student in danger for disagreeing with Obama. A high percentage of Americans believed race relations would improve with the election of America's first black president. Today, that percentage has dropped dramatically. Could it be because the Obama administration, at every turn, has shamelessly exploited race to further its agenda? The message of the liberal media/Obama administration tag team comes across loud and clear. If you disagree with Obama, we will brand you a racist and we will hurt you. Joe Wilson's War. The reaction to the congressman's outburst shows what happens when you judge this president by the content of his character. In a post-racial presidency, charges of racism are the new last refuge of scoundrels. Color Me Racist. If you oppose government-run healthcare, you are racist. Welcome to Obama-world. It's now official. I'm a racist. No less than a former president of the United States has declared that if I oppose the takeover of 17% of our economy under the guise of health care reform, I hate black people. The Obsolescence of a Slur. Are Obama's critics really racists? It is a serious charge. If true, it means the hope of a color-blind society is essentially over after a half-century of civil-rights progress. If false, it means that we have institutionalized vicious smears as legitimate political tactics — and, in the process, discredited the entire dialogue that surrounds racial prejudice. How do we determine the accuracy of the "racism" charges? Criticism Is Racism. Sadly, it's not enough to expect that people who level the racism charge at least try to back it up. The claim is no longer about facts, but about silencing or discrediting critics. The evidence suggests that the right should expect this slanderous strategy to continue as long as Obama is in office. Democrats see race factor for Barack Obama foes. Eight months into Barack Obama's presidency, as criticism of his administration seems to reach new levels of volume and intensity each week, the whispers among some of his allies are growing louder: That those who loathe the nation's first African-American president, and especially those who would deny his citizenship, are driven at least in part by racism. More about Obama the victim. Jimmy Carter, the Jew-hater who cried racist. America's worst ex-president Jimmy Carter made a ridiculous charge on Tuesday that Joe Wilson's outburst was "based on racism" and, more broadly, that "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man." It's ironic that a man who has such hate in his heart would call other people racists. Carter's cries of racism are both wrong and destructive. Failed President and presumptuous fool that he is, Jimmy Carter has looked into the heart of America and discovered racism among those who most strenuously oppose the nation's first black occupant of the White House. Carter's diagnosis of prejudice in the anti-Obama fevers was both an insult to the public and a damaging blow to rational debate over the hugely contentious agenda that the President is seeking to advance. More about Jimmy Carter. How To Find Millions of Racists: How do you create millions of white racists? I have a theory. I say you can do it by accusing a few million white folks who are not racists and just continue to accuse them of being racists on a daily basis. Keep doing it day after day and week after week, and pretty soon you might just have what you want. Policy, not race, drives Obama foes. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said in an interview that rising opposition to President Obama's free-spending policies has nothing to do with race... "All through my political career, when the Democrats are losing the argument, they try to make the issue race. The issue's left and right, it's not black and white," the Republican governor said in an interview with editors and reporters Thursday [9/17/2009] at The Washington Times. "This administration and this Congress have attempted the biggest lurch to the left of any administration in American history." A Tackle Box Full of Race Bait. Of all the poisonous, ugly and intellectually vapid controversies ginned up in my lifetime, the current breakout of St. Vitus' Dance over the "racist" opposition to Barack Obama may be the most egregious. Al Sharpton tells CNN's Larry King that decent and racially sensitive Americans shouldn't let a small minority make health care into a "racial issue." Liberal Hate Speech. Have you ever wondered why Barrack Obama never brings up Martin Luther King's speech where Doctor King speaks of racial equality? The reason is that that speech calls for all races to treat each other with respect. Doctor King would have refused to pass any program such as Affirmative Action because he would have considered that program racist based on its discrimination for skin color. Dr. King had no interest in punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty and he would be outraged over the actions of hucksters such as Jesse Jacksone, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright and Van Jones. Obama has some explaining to do... Obama is not scary, just disappointing. … His candidacy kindled hope that he might bring down the curtain on the long-running and intensely boring melodrama "Forever Selma," starring Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It was hoped Obama would be impatient with the ritualized choreography of synthetic indignation that degrades racial discourse. Why Stupid Is as Stupid Does. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-Push Coalition, and the rest of the industry of outrage that make a living off of spreading such a victimhood mentality in their communities have been doing it for years. To be very honest its one of the reasons newly immigrated blacks from Africa or the Caribbean have a very hard time fitting in to such communities. As immigrants they see the opportunities in front of them as blessings and they cannot comprehend why some domestic, multi-generational black Americans won't seize them. Victimhood is a state of mind first and foremost. Overcoming the barriers that keeps one down is exceedingly liberating. But on Chicago's south side, fellow African Americans make large sums of money convincing some that they must remain angry, suspicious, and sadly — victims. A Teachable Moment Indeed. Obama helped teach us some things all right, but he ain't gonna be happy with what we have learned. ... Perhaps most importantly, we have gotten a clearer picture of what the American race industry is all about. The deconstruction of the reputation of their most visible representative, Henry Louis Gates, nears completion. Living in Al Sharpton World. Only Al Sharpton could consider a $285,000 Federal Election Commission fine — one of the heftiest such penalties ever — a "vindication." That's because the FEC originally sought to hit him for a cool half-million for financial sleight-of-hand arising from his 2004 presidential campaign. The Picture of Barack Obama: Anti-Americanism … has been standard fare in American politics since the 1960s, including among several African-American civil-rights leaders, but has been rhetorically bludgeoned to silence by its most artful practitioners, such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. … Then along comes the real deal, a raving, dyed-in-the-wool, hate-speech spewing anti-American in the form of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose diatribes no doubt took many Americans by surprise. Rev. Al Sharpton wants FCC to investigate News Corporation. Critics are still turning up the heat on the New York Post, directing their venom now at the embattled newspaper's parent company. The Rev. Al Sharpton and several city councilmembers — riled up over purportedly racist cartoon — are asking the Federal Communications Commission to yank a waiver allowing News Corp. to run two newspapers and two TV stations in the city. Al Sharpton: Michael Jackson made Barack Obama president. Speaking at Michael Jackson's memorial service Tuesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton gave the entertainer credit for creating an environment in which Barack Obama could be elected president. "It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together. It was Michael Jackson that made us sing 'we are the world,'" said Sharpton. Deification of Jackson as creepy as he was. Rev. Al Sharpton complained about "a disrespectful double standard" in news coverage of [Michael] Jackson's death and entertainers like Elvis and Frank Sinatra. "You have had other entertainers that have had issues in their life," Sharpton said the other day, before presiding over Tuesday's memorial variety show. "You [reporters] did not degrade and denigrate them. Michael was no freak, he was a genius." ... The thing is, Frank and Elvis and other superstars like James Brown didn't sleep with little boys. Al Sharpton Show: Did Sarah Palin do something to Michael Jackson? Yesterday, NewsReal Blog was obliged to revisit Al Sharpton's history of disturbing, not to mention felonious, activities — none of which has prevented him from becoming and remaining one of the most famous men in American public life. Most recently, of course, he wasted no time insinuating himself into the coverage surrounding Michael Jackson's death; as reported here, Sharpton used his eulogy of Jackson to deliver another of his screeds against "racist" white America which was dutifully broadcast, without criticism, by the major television networks to an audience of millions. Fifteen Reasons I'm Already Tired of the Obama Era: [#13] Despite the fact that America just conclusively proved it's not a racist nation by electing the first black President, race hustling bottom feeders like Al Sharpton and Julian Bond are making ridiculous charges of racism over an obviously non-racial cartoon. I thought the implicit promise of the Left was that electing Obama would put the race hustlers out of business? Apology not accepted: Sharpton not satisfied. The Rev. Al Sharpton was still not satisfied Tuesday [2/24/2009] after New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch issued an unprecedented personal apology over a controversial cartoon that was branded racist. John Lewis's Race Grenade: Georgia Democrat John Lewis was a brave civil-rights leader, but that doesn't give him moral license to fan racial tensions today. Yet that's precisely what he did on Saturday by suggesting that John McCain and Sarah Palin were inciting violence a la segregationist George Wallace. By raising questions about Barack Obama's relationship with terror-bomber William Ayers, the Republicans are "sowing the seeds of hatred and division," Mr. Lewis said. Obama's Gospel of Envy: "In April 2004, Barack Obama told a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times that he had three spiritual mentors or counselors: Jeremiah Wright, James Meeks and Father Michael Pfleger," writes Christopher Hitchens, adding that "the national civil rights pulpit is largely occupied by second-rate shakedown artists who hope to franchise 'race talk' into a fat living for themselves." Mainstreaming Demagoguery: Al Sharpton's Rise to Respectability, Part 1. Since the mid 1980s Reverend Al Sharpton, known to friends and allies as "the Rev," has been a fixture in American public life. His calling is "justice." Unfortunately, he defines the term in ways that defy common sense and moral integrity. As a preacher, politician and media manipulator, he stokes the fury of black audiences prone to viewing reality through a lens of black victimhood at the hands of white victimizers. Through his Harlem-based nonprofit organization, National Action Network (NAN), Sharpton relentlessly plays offense against any person or organization he believes has perpetrated, or turned a blind eye from, injustices against blacks. Mainstreaming Demagoguery: Al Sharpton's Rise to Respectability, Part 2. It may well be that Sharpton positively radiates charm. But that doesn't exempt him from public scrutiny. As the late Left-leaning New York journalist, Jack Newfield, cautioned several years earlier, Sharpton is "dangerous because he is so likable." Al Sharpton's image as a dynamic and noble visionary inevitably runs up against his track record. Well meaning institutional supporters want to believe the best about him. But self-delusion has come at a high price. The laudatory speeches and dollars are bad for the benefactors — and even worse for our country. It is way overdue for the celebration, and the subsidies, to end. Could Obama's rise signal the end of black victimology? Victimology, in the view of black writer John McWhorter, is the theory that (1) African-Americans are continuing victims of racism and discrimination, and (2) their progress consequently depends chiefly on acts of repentant benevolence by whites — in the extreme case, reparations for slavery. Jesse Jackson is the best-known victimologist, but far from the only one. They all must experience acute ambivalence as they view Senator Obama. Jackson Sued Over No-Show. Want to book Jesse Jackson for a speech? Make sure you have $75,000 and a private jet available. That's what the reverend charged for a late-2007 speech in Trinidad, but then never showed for the appearance, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in Chicago. Jackson's eloquent tears. Was Rev. Jesse Jackson crying tears of joy at President-elect Barack Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park? Or was the civil rights leader weeping in regret that he might now be out of a job? Caught by television cameras, Jackson's tears spoke volumes. It is important to remember that Jackson helped to pave the way for Obama. But, like some other old-school leaders, Jackson has been slow to recognize when to step out of the way. Black Congressmen Declare Racism In Palin's Rhetoric. As the McCain campaign ratchets up the intensity of its attacks on Barack Obama, some black elected officials are calling the tactics desperate, unseemly and racist. Why Jesse Jackson Hates Obama: If I have often criticized Mr. Jackson, I have also, reservedly, admired him. He is a late 20th century outcropping of a profoundly American archetype: the self-invented man who comes from nothing and, out of sheer force of personality, imposes himself on the American consciousness. If he never reached the greatness to which he aspired, he nevertheless did honor to the enduring American tradition of bold and unapologetic opportunism. Re: Jesse Jackson. It's barely news that Jesse Jackson shares political convictions with Mahmoud Ahamdinejad. It was almost 25 years ago that Jackson called New York City "hymietown," and said he's "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust," that "Zionism is a kind of poisonous weed that is choking Judaism," and there are "very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective about Arab affairs." Jackson eclipsed in the age of Obama. The rise of Barack Obama and a surge of young leaders in the civil rights movement are raising questions about how big a somebody Jackson really is these days. It is a perplexing transition not just for Jackson but for the civil rights movement too. For both, the challenge will be to remain central to politics in this country even as Obama's nomination for president next week prompts many Americans to believe the major goals of the civil rights movement have been achieved. Jackson will have none of such talk. Financial Affirmative Action: After [the Community Reinvestment Act] came into effect, Saul Alinsky-inspired "community organizer" groups such as Greenlining, ACORN, and National Council of La Raza got into the shakedown business. They preach the hateful class-warfare rhetoric of their fellow community organizers Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Michael Pfleger. They rage against capitalism and demand crushing taxes and aggressive wealth redistribution programs. They demand more government spending on social programs, a higher minimum wage, and gun control. Liberal Meltdown. The Jacksons and Sharptons of the world who have spent their lives preaching racism are also in melt down stage. With the nomination of Obama, racism is in the process of becoming a hard sell, even the silent 'institutional racism' that has been in vogue these last few years. How will the race hustlers raise funds without genuine victims? Subpoena Blitz Puts Heat On Al. The probe into the Rev. Al Sharpton's finances intensified this week, with the IRS sending out a flurry of subpoenas to his most generous corporate donors, The Post has learned. Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Budweiser and Michelob, confirmed yesterday that it received a federal subpoena in connection to its charitable giving to Sharpton's National Action Network. Rev. Al Under the Radar. The Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network has 36 chapters across the country but has mostly failed to register in states that require nonprofits to file public records, The Post has learned. Only two chapters, those in Washington state and Nevada, have registered with the appropriate agency. Opponent Accuses Rep. Alcee Hastings of Threatening His Life. Congressman Hastings is not known for being a particularly well-balanced individual. As a federal judge he was impeached and removed from office for bribery and perjury by Congress, and was most recently in the news for saying of Sarah Palin, "Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks." Sharpton and Jackson: Biggest Losers in Iowa, New Hampshire, and.... On the night of the Iowa Caucus, George F. Will, syndicated columnist, appeared on CNN, stating that Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson were the biggest losers in Iowa. Will and others were remarking that the Obama campaign signals the end of purely race-based politics. I was shocked by the boldness of the statement. Will seemed to believe that the days of black candidates only receiving votes from other blacks is over. Jackson Barks, but Does He Still Have Bite? [Scroll down] If anything, Mr. Obama seems likely to gain political dividends from Mr. Jackson's vulgar criticism of him for, as Mr. Jackson put it, "talking down to black people" in speeches about the responsibilities of absent black fathers. End of the Reverend. For whatever reason, Jackson went "nuts" on Obama — perhaps because he believes that Obama is talking down to black people, because he's jealous that he's yesterday and Obama is today and maybe (let's hope not) tomorrow. Jackson showed a nasty streak to add to the irresponsible, divisive, hyperbolic nature we've known about for years. How much player-hate can fester in one man's heart? Apparently, quite a lot if you're the Windy City's World-Class Windbag. Jesse Jackson has spent his entire life in love with the microphone. He knows them intimately. He's such an aficionado of the mike that Detroit's beloved late mayor, Coleman Young, dismissed one of Jackson's failed vanity bids for the presidency by noting that "all he's ever run is his mouth." Manipulating the Media for Obama. Thanks to Matt Drudge, Jesse Jackson's disparaging comments about Barack Obama have become national news. Who benefits? Obama. It makes Obama look like a moderate, compared to the disgraced, discredited and venomous Jackson. But this doesn't mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that Jackson, a failed black presidential candidate, will cease to be a national black "leader" and spokesman. Remember this is a "Reverend" who has survived the embarrassment of fathering a child out of wedlock. Freddie, Fannie Funded Jesse Jackson's Pet Projects. Mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have come under fire for making contributions to programs headed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson at a time when their own survival is at stake. Peter Flaherty, founder and president of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), told Cybercast News Service that the gifts to Jackson were "clearly inappropriate" and "extremely controversial." The civil rights shakedown: myth or reality? Al Sharpton is making headlines again, but it's not for one of his crusades. Instead, Mr. Sharpton, his National Action Network (NAN) and several major corporations that have donated to NAN have been subpoenaed in recent months by federal investigators. While Mr. Sharpton's attorneys reported Tuesday [7/29/2008] that the criminal probe over millions of dollars supposedly owed in taxes by Mr. Sharpton and NAN has been dropped in lieu of civil action by the IRS, federal authorities remain tight-lipped over the status of any investigations. Lawsuit Eyed by Sharpton Over Florida. Rev. Sharpton is traveling to Florida today [3/10/2008] to compile lists of residents who skipped the January contest because they thought their votes would not count. He plans to have those residents sign affidavits saying they would be disenfranchised by the seating of the Florida delegation, in the event the Democratic Party allowed that to happen. A dangerous detour. Cycles of outrage and apology distract blacks from confronting many big, chronic problems. Betrayal of the struggle. While not every vestige of racial discrimination has been eliminated, it is nowhere near the barrier it was yesteryear, but you'd think discrimination is everywhere listening to some of today's black politicians and civil rights leaders. Pennsylvania GOP Sues ACORN and Rendell Appointee. The ACORN allegation of "voter suppression" comes in the wake of a controversial remark by Pennsylvania Democrat Congressman John Murtha of Johnstown in Western Pennsylvania in which Murtha painted his own constituents as racist, telling the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in an interview that "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area." Murtha later apologized. Democrats playing the guilt card again. As polls showed the presidential contest tightening up early last week, worried Democrats began flogging the Americans-are-racists theme more openly than ever. John Murtha, the white Johnstown congressman, made the accusation local, while Deval Patrick, the Democratic, African-American governor of Massachusetts, used a campaign stop in Pittsburgh to make it international. Texas County Official Sees Race in Term 'Black Hole'. What do "black hole," "angel food cake," and "devil's food cake" have in common? They're all racist terms, says a Dallas County, Texas, official. Shameless John Conyers. At this point, Conyers' shameless second-guessing — not to mention his insinuation that the shooting speaks to broader problems within the NYPD — says a lot more about his own agenda than anything about the state of policing in New York City. Records show Sharpton owes nearly $1.5M. Since the late 1990s, his civil rights group has grown from a small outfit, with a few hundred thousand dollars in annual revenue, to an organization that now routinely takes in $1 million to $2 million per year, thanks partly to corporate support. Donors have included beer giant Anheuser-Busch, which gave more than $100,000 last year, and Forest City Ratner, a real estate development company that courted black leaders for support of a plan to build an NBA arena in Brooklyn. The Editor says... Sounds like a shakedown to me: The implication is that the arena construction site will be picketed unless somebody gives a lot of money to Al Sharpton. More information about public money being spent on sports stadiums and arenas can be found on this page. Audit: Sharpton campaign owes US nearly $500,000. Federal auditors have concluded the Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 campaign owes the government nearly $500,000 for illegal donations and other financial improprieties. Sharpton has been feuding with the Federal Election Commission for years over his accounting in his failed run for president, for which he received $100,000 in so-called government matching funds that authorities later concluded he did not deserve because he hadn't followed campaign laws. Rev. Al Soaks Up Boycott Bucks. Almost 50 companies — including PepsiCo, General Motors, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Continental Airlines, Johnson & Johnson and Chase — and some labor unions sponsored Sharpton's National Action Network annual conference in April. Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or eager to make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks, critics say, to NAN and Sharpton — who brandishes the buying power of African-American consumers. In some cases, they hire him as a consultant. Facing Federal Probes, Sharpton Hires Ex-Prosecutor. Reverend Al Sharpton is fighting back against government probes of his charity's finances, which he has claimed are politically-motivated, by hiring a former U.S. Attorney to represent him and his National Action Network. The civil-rights activist told ABC News that he felt compelled to hire Zachary Carter, the former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney, three months ago because the veteran prosecutor is best equipped to understand the workings of his old office. Feds drop criminal probe of Rev. Al Sharpton's finances. Federal prosecutors have dropped their criminal probe of fiscal irregularities and tax fraud by the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network. Lawyers for the civil rights activist said that means Sharpton's tax tangle won't result in an indictment or jail time, or even an appearance before a grand jury, though he's agreed to pay millions in back taxes. It also means the feds aren't pursuing allegations the civil rights leader extorted contributions from corporations in exchange for not protesting against them. Rev. Al's awakening. It's not every day that the Rev. Al Sharpton admits to having gone overboard in accusing governmental authorities of bad faith, but it's also not every day that New York's most visible crusader fesses up to having shorted the IRS more than $1 million. Happy Kwanzaa. On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among African Americans. The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certain sixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the valuable service of "de-whitizing" Christmas. The minister was a nobody at the time but he would later go on to become perhaps the premier race-baiter of the twentieth century. His name was Al Sharpton and he would later spawn the Tawana Brawley hoax and then incite anti-Jewish tensions in a 1995 incident that ended with the arson deaths of seven people. Can We Overcome Jesse Jackson? The Decatur, Illinois, school fracas, dominated by Jesse Jackson, shows clearly the nature of black leadership. These elites understand well that the only power they possess comes through their influence within and over the black masses. To guarantee their success as brokers for their own elite class, for whom they extract sundry affirmative action perks, they must appear to maintain a firm attachment to the "downtrodden underclass." Inter-Racial Crime: The Dirty Little Secret. In response to a white-on-black killing in Brooklyn a few years ago, an infuriated Al Sharpton instantly took to the airwaves and proclaimed that such attacks constituted "a national epidemic." At the 1996 Million Man March, an impassioned Jesse Jackson thundered to his huge black audience, "We're despised. ... We're attacked for sport." Hiding Black Interracial Crimes: In the case of interracial murder for 2004, where the race of victim and perpetrator is known, more than twice as many whites were murdered by a black than cases of a white murdering a black. The failure of civil rights leaders, people like Jackson and Sharpton, as well as politicians to vocally condemn black-on-white crime — and the relative silence of the news media in reporting it — is not simply a matter of double standards. It's dangerous, for it contributes to a pile of racial kindling awaiting a racial arsonist to set it ablaze. I can't think of better recruitment gifts for America's racists, either white or black. Shuck & Jive: Clinton Explains Himself to Sharpton. [Scroll down] While the former first lady was defending herself in California, her husband was explaining himself to the Rev. Al Sharpton. "It's not a fairy tale; he might win," said Clinton. "I think he's a very impressive man, and he's run a great campaign." Clinton is under fire for using the words "fairy tale" in connection with Obama. The Editor says... Perhaps Al Sharpton should publish a manual of words and phrases that whites are not to use in conversations with him (or anybody else). Shameless grandstanding: The Rev. Al Sharpton of New York is a self-aggrandizing showboat who has been whipping up racial victimology for decades now. In 1987, he fanned the flames of hate in the case of 15-year-old Tawana Brawley, who claimed a gang of white law enforcement officers abducted and raped her. Those charges turned out to be a hoax, and the prosecutor Sharpton abused in the case sued him for damages and won. Sharpton is still up to the same irresponsible game. Colgate-Palmolive Asked to Repudiate Sharpton. Ethics Group Criticizes the Golf Channel for "Caving In" to Sharpton. Peter Flaherty, President of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) made the following statement about the suspension of Golf Channel Anchor Kelly Tilghman: "The Golf Channel has made an unfortunate situation worse by caving in to the likes of Al Sharpton. If there is a victim it is Tiger Woods. The Golf Channel should have taken its lead from Tiger, and not from a hate-monger like Sharpton. The suspension of Kelly Tilghman is a mistake and she should be reinstated without delay." 'Acting White' Comment is No Political Time Bomb for Jackson. When is it OK to raise race in politics? Who — if anyone — is entitled to suggest that an African-American is "acting like he's white"? … The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a talk show host and president of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, said there is a racial element to Jackson's comments. "It is bad for business when [blacks] attack black folks for being wrong, when they correct black Americans," Peterson said. But he added: "Can you imagine what would have happened had a white man, or a white Republican, said that Barack Obama is not black enough? They would want to burn down America." The Editor says... There are no repercussions for Jackson's reckless words because he holds a self-appointed office. Fatherhood Jesse-style: The statistics are staggering. In 2001, 66 percent of black children were living in a home absent a father (more recent figures now put the number closer to 70 percent). That's double what it was in 1960. Compare that to 27 percent of white children living without a father. Aside from apparent Obama-envy, this was the point missed by the mainstream media in the post-analysis of Jesse Jackson's "off-camera" quip heard around the world last week. The irony can't be lost on the fact that Mr. Jackson, who himself has fathered an illegitimate child, wanted to emasculate the senator and married father of two. The "Problem Profiteers": When Washington Post pollsters asked whether minorities should receive preferential treatment to make up for past discrimination, 77% of blacks leaders said yes, while 77% of the black public said no. In addition, a majority of the black populace disapproved of forced school busing, while 68% of black leaders supported busing. 'Jena Six' case sparks march on DC. No one was charged with a crime for hanging the noose. "They need to deem these things hate crimes when it's necessary and obvious," said protester Letrice Titus, 32, of Syracuse, N.Y. Organizers said more than 100 busloads of people turned out for the protest [which was] organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton…. The Editor says... There is a move underway to make the public display of nooses illegal. Why not just skip the next several increments and make it illegal to tie a knot in a rope? NAACP: Feds must toughen noose law. The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP, called Monday [11/19/2007] for tougher federal laws to deal with displays of nooses, following a spate of incidents around the country in recent months and a noose-hanging incident last week inside a classroom at Central Michigan University. Noose Outcry: A New Entry in the Campus Hall of Shame. Does anyone still wonder why college culture is the laughingstock of the larger community? Our campuses seem to lurch from one politically correct knee-slapper to the next. Does anyone crack a book at these places anymore? Tawana Brawley II The Noose Tightens. Her name is not Tawana Brawley. It's Madonna Constantine. But you might be forgiven for confusing the two. After Constantine revealed the supposedly monstrous crime, Columbia erupted in protests. The administration vowed to find the evildoer. The NYPD got involved. Columbia began acting oddly, refusing to cooperate with the NYPD. The NYPD produced a subpoena for the films from surveillance cameras in the hallway. They came up with nothing. Then, suddenly, the NYPD announced it was closing the investigation. Update: Noose 'Ties' Eyed. A Manhattan grand jury has subpoenaed the university records of the controversial black Columbia Teachers College professor who found a noose hanging from her office door -- signaling that the investigation is broadening to examine possible links between the teacher, her closest friends and the racially charged incident, The Post has learned. The latest: Columbia Professor in Noose Case Is Fired on Plagiarism Charges. The Columbia University professor who gained widespread attention last fall after a noose was found hanging on her office door was fired on Monday [6/23/2008] after months of wrangling over charges that she plagiarized the work of two former students and a former colleague. … There is a continuing criminal investigation into who placed the noose on the door, but there have been no charges in the case. Professor Who Made Noose Claim Suspended. Teachers College at Columbia University is suspending indefinitely Madonna Constantine, a professor who claimed she was the victim of a hate crime after an investigation began into allegations that she committed plagiarism. Tawana Brawley III Rev. Al Sharpton wants investigation into rape allegations by Megan Williams. The Rev. Al Sharpton revealed Wednesday [10/21/2009] that he gave a $1,000 Christmas gift to a black West Virginia woman who claimed she had been gang-raped by a group of white men — and is now recanting her story. Woman in W.Va. torture case lied, lawyer says. An attorney for a black woman who claimed torture by a white group in West Virginia said his client fabricated the story to get back at a boyfriend who had beaten her up. What's up in Jena, Louisiana? Lessons from Jena, Louisiana: Jesse Jackson compared Thursday's rallies in Jena to the protests and marches that used to take place in cities like Selma, Ala., in the 1960s. Al Sharpton claimed Thursday's peaceful demonstrations were to highlight racial inequities in the criminal justice system. Jesse and Al, as they're prone to do, served a kernel of truth stacked on a mountain of lies. Black Racism and "The Jena Six". Black racism remains a dynamic phenomenon because African Americans have been told, ad nauseum, by "civil rights leaders" and by leftist whites in influential organizations like the ACLU, to look outside of themselves for the roots of every ill that plagues their community; to reflexively blame white society for their problems rather than to take responsibility for their own lives; and to view themselves as the oppressed and powerless victims of a white "power structure," a status they are led to believe renders them somehow incapable of being genuine racists themselves — no matter how much they may detest the white people they perceive to be their tormenters. What They Don't Want You To Know About The Jena 6 Case: The "Jena 6" have repeatedly been held up as heroes by much of the race-based community and called "innocent students" by the national media. Some of these students have reputations in Jena for intimidating and sometimes beating other students. They have vandalized and destroyed both school property and community property. Some of the Jena 6 have been involved in crimes not only in LaSalle Parish but also in surrounding parishes. … Despite intervention by adults wanting to give them chances due to their athletic potential, most of the Jena 6 have extensive juvenile records. Yet their parents keep insisting that their children have never been in trouble before. The Editor says... Aha! Now the real story comes out: Even though they are perpetual troublemakers, they are being coddled because they are athletes. Media myths about the Jena 6: The outside media made sure everyone knew the basics. There's just one problem: The media got most of the basics wrong. In fact, I have never before witnessed such a disgrace in professional journalism. Myths replaced facts, and journalists abdicated their solemn duty to investigate every claim because they were seduced by a powerfully appealing but false narrative of racial injustice. The Jena Six — and Other Scams. According to [Charlotte] Allen and [Craig] Franklin, here are the facts and chronology you have been denied by the Mainstream Media. There never was a "whites-only" tree at Jena High. Both races sat under it, though whites congregated there. The nooses, or lariats, were the work of three young teens, who got the idea from watching "Lonesome Dove" on TV, where rustlers are hanged. 'Jena Six' teen pleads guilty to battery charge. A black teenager, whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor battery charge that could see him released from a detention center in about eight months. Teen at center of Jena 6 case close to plea deal. A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years is close to a deal that would allow him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and avoid a second trial, his attorney said Sunday. Mychal Bell, 17, could enter the plea as early as Monday, said attorney Carol Powell Lexing. He has been charged with aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy. The politics of racial insult: Thanks to his bipartisan enablers in politics and the media, leading civil rights charlatan Al Sharpton never lacks a stage. Still surfing on the wave of publicity over the Jena Six case in Louisiana, he led an anti-hate crimes demonstration last Friday [11/16/2007] outside the Justice Department. He targeted both the Bush administration and Democrats who he thinks haven't pandered enough to him and his small flock of career shakedown artists. Firehouse incident with noose was a hoax. A firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and a threatening note with a drawing of a noose in an East Baltimore station house last month had placed the items there himself, city officials said yesterday. The man was suspended last week for performance-related issues and will likely face additional punishment, fire officials said. Jena: The case of the amazing disappearing hate crime. In early December the case of the "Jena Six" — the six African-American high school students in Louisiana accused of viciously beating a white classmate in 2006 — collapsed dramatically with a felony guilty plea by one of the defendants. As something that was going to trigger "America's next great civil rights movement" (to quote National Public Radio) and grassroots protests against the "new Jim Crow" and the systematic discrimination against blacks in the criminal justice system, this was quite a letdown. Member of 'Jena 6' arrested in Carrollton. A Hebron High School student said a member of the "Jena Six" choked him and then pushed his head into a bench, bruising his eye, according to an arrest warrant affidavit released by Denton County on Thursday [2/7/2008]. Bryant Purvis, 19, was charged with assault and released from Denton County Jail early Thursday morning after posting $1,000 bond. Louisiana teen who hung nooses gets 4 months in prison. a Louisiana teenager who hung nooses off the back of his truck to intimidate a group of black civil rights demonstrators has been sentenced to four months in prison. Federal prosecutors say 19-year-old Jeremiah Munsen displayed the nooses when he drove past people who had attended a massive civil rights march in Jena on Sept. 20. Updated 6/25/2009: 'Jena Six' cases nearing final plea deal. Five of six black teens accused of beating a white classmate in a case that led to the biggest civil rights protest in decades will plead guilty in a deal expected to be finalized this week, Louisiana court officials involved with the case told The Associated Press Wednesday [6/24/2009]. Jesse Jackson accuses Obama of 'acting white' in presidential race. The US civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson set off a racial firestorm yesterday [9/19/2007] after he accused his fellow Democrat and fellow African American, Barack Obama, of "acting like he's white" in his campaign for the White House. The Al Sharpton suck-up continues. Just what we needed to close out the year: Another Al Sharpton suck-up piece by the MSM. This one's from the Washington Post's Keith Richburg, who can barely manage to mention Sharpton's latest legal troubles: "Sharpton has thrived this year with his high-decibel microphone-to-megaphone activism, even in the face of a federal investigation of his 2004 campaign finances." That's it. The rest of the slobbery piece gives Sharpton premium newspaper space to pat himself on the back. Not Relevant? Sharpton Scoffs at the Idea. [Scroll down] Sharpton has "been eclipsed, because Obama puts guys like Sharpton in the shadow," said Fred Siegel, a historian of New York City at the Cooper Union college in Manhattan. "Suppose Obama is elected president. He's terrible for Sharpton, because that takes away Sharpton's job. He's a kind of racial ambulance chaser. It's hard to engage in that game if there's another powerful African American politician." Sharpton Becomes 'Legitimate'. In case you haven't noticed, Al Sharpton has become legitimate. No seriously. … As far as I know, Rev. Sharpton has not apologized for his irresponsible demagoguery that led to the deaths in Harlem and Crown Heights, nor has he ever admitted that the Tawana Brawley affair was a hoax, so why is he suddenly being taken seriously? Well, he got Imus fired. 20 years later, Tawana Brawley has turned her back on the past. Many people in this rural town of just 300 know the story of Tawana Brawley, but most have no idea her family lives among them. Brawley — whose claims of being raped by a "white cop" shocked the city 20 years ago — has long since turned her back on New York. She changed her name, converted to Islam, moved south…. In Brawley case, a lesson about rushing judgement. In November 1987, a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley claimed to have been abducted by a group of white men who raped her for a couple of days, smeared dog dung on her body and scrawled racist epithets on her torso. It was the biggest lie to affect the tone of race relations in the last 50 years. That happened because, as national compassion was emerging, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason rushed behind Brawley and mounted a furious dog-and-pony show. This was written in 1997 and is just as relevant today. Don't Distract Us From the Main Task of Hustling Whitey. Too many of our current social problems are misunderstood because our elites are so prone to believe that these problems are caused by wrong "perceptions" or "stereotypes." … What has happened over the past century has not been a change in "perceptions," but in realities. Blacks, whites and Asian Americans are all very different today from what they were in 1897. A hundred years ago, half of the black population of this country could not read or write. Selling out black Americans: It's both libel and lie, but it's repeated again and again by immigration lobbyists. Be they liberals, libertarians or plain la Raza racists, they all say the same: illegal aliens only take the jobs Americans refuse to do. Reparations and Irresponsible Demagogues. The first thing to understand about the issue of reparations for slavery is that no money is going to be paid. The very people who are demanding reparations know it is not going to happen. Why then are they demanding something that they know they are not going to get? Because the demagogues themselves will benefit, even if nobody else does. Stirring up historic grievances pays off in publicity and votes. The Lawsuit Gravy Train: Doing It the Black Way. In the Winter 1997 edition of Issues & Views, writer Shahrazad Ali described the antics of blacks who either had filed class-action lawsuits or were plotting lawsuits against their white employers for so-called discriminatory practices. Calling this stratagem "a new job related lottery," she chided such blacks for their "perpetual begging" and willingness to have whites "buy and sell" them. Al Sharpton's 'Racism'. When Rev. Sharpton recently threatened to come to Staten Island to protest District Attorney Daniel Donovan for not labeling an assault case a "hate crime," it should have been clear to everyone how increasingly desperate the "Reverend" has become in manufacturing racial incidents instead of exposing the real ones that still plague this nation. Why Do We Still Look to Al Sharpton? We need to remember that Sharpton is not the civil rights leader he claims to be. He lacks credibility. Serious people shouldn't listen to or court this buffoonish publicity hound. So here's a refresher course in the History of Sharpton. Kingfish Al Sharpton and Senator Foghorn Byrd. To any fan of Amos 'n Andy it's obvious who Al Sharpton really is: He's Kingfish as civil rights leader. The Rev doesn't own anything, including his expensive suits, his James Brown hairdos, and his throw-away cellphone to the media. But by some miracle he manages to live very high on the hog. Sharpton's Just a Leader Tawana-be: Koch. Former Mayor Ed Koch surprised an almost exclusively black audience yesterday by telling the Rev. Al Sharpton he had spoiled his chance to become "a crossover leader" by refusing to apologize for "the Tawana Brawley hoax." Of Race and the Race. To the civil rights lobby, whose most conspicuous members are the racial hustlers Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, racism is everywhere — and, man, it's white America's fault. It wasn't enough that the United States turned itself inside out, and its cultural arrangements, over half a century's time to ensure the too-long-postponed accommodation of black Americans in all phases of American life. What would be enough? That's hard to say. Al Sharpton: The Worst Kind of Hypocrite. To me, Al Sharpton is the political world's glorified version of Anna Nicole Smith. He could only exist in this day and age, when people are famous for simply being famous. Unlike Anna Nicole, though, who at least promoted TrimSpa, Reverend Al has never promoted [anything] but himself. If the media are going to insist on giving this guy a platform, he needs to be held to the same level of "accountability" that he so angrily demanded for [Don] Imus. Sharpton announces Washington march on hate crime issue. Rev. Al Sharpton announced plans Tuesday for a march on the U.S. Justice Department in Washington on Nov. 16. Sharpton, speaking at Atlanta's Richard B. Russell federal building, is protesting what he believes is the Justice Department's failure to prosecute a series of recent hate crimes across the country. The Editor says... The strongest argument against hate crimes result from close examination of the people who are most in favor of them. The Irrelevant Rev. Sharpton: [Al] Sharpton seems to make news every time he opens his mouth. His presidential run in 2004 landed him far afield of the White House, but it succeeded in perhaps its only real aim: convincing the national media that in all things black, Sharpton is a one-stop shop. Journalists thus follow the good reverend's every move as though galaxies hang in the balance. At night, he routinely accrues even more face time, matching wits with the squawking chickens of cable news. Abner Louima denies favors for Rev. Sharpton's money. Police brutality victim Abner Louima stood up for the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday [10/8/2007], saying money he got from Sharpton's National Action Network came with no strings attached. "Whatever I got, I was never told that I had to do any favors back or I had to pay back the National Action Network," Louima told the Daily News. The Nine Lives of Al Sharpton: By now everyone knows about the recent idiotic remarks that longtime broadcaster Don Imus made last week about some black members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team, to whom he referred as "nappy-headed hos." Imus' words require no comment; their stupidity is clear to all. What is not at all clear, however, is why Al Sharpton has become Imus' de facto confessor in this case. Subpoenas for Al Sharpton's aides. Teams of federal agents swooped down on up to 10 close associates of the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday [12/12/2007], demanding the flamboyant clergyman's financial records since 2001. Sharpton's former chief of staff said he was roused at his Harlem home about 6:30 a.m. by two FBI agents who handed him a subpoena to bring the records to a federal grand jury the day after Christmas. Angry Sharpton Denounces Federal Investigation. The Reverend Al Sharpton is once again under federal investigation. Sharpton staffers were told to appear before a grand jury the day after Christmas and provide investigators with the reverend's financial records. A fired-up Sharpton came out swinging Thursday [11/13/2007] after finding out that his non-profit National Action Network — and possibly he himself — is being investigated. Heat is on Rev. Al Gal. The woman allegedly behind the breakup of the Rev. Al Sharpton's 23-year marriage was slapped with a subpoena connected to a federal probe into the activist's finances, The [New York] Post has learned. Al's Dizzy Biz: For the past four years, the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network has operated with million-dollar deficits — with about half the group's annual donations going to pay private consultant fees, tax records show. FBI videotape shows Sharpton cutting a deal. With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly. Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win a multimillion-dollar business deal, if White helped him raise $50,000 for politics. How Long will Democrats and the Media continue to enable Sharpton and Jackson? The truth about Sharpton and Jackson's histories of exploiting racial tensions is well known, yet they continually get a pass from those in the media. What's Next for the Activists Who Called for Don Imus's Head? In October 2004, Media Matters for America, the liberal watchdog group run by former American Spectator writer David Brock, announced a campaign to reimpose the Fairness Doctrine, the government regulation that, before it was repealed in 1987, required broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial public issues. How Hillary's Hit Man Got Imus: Do you think something is fishy about the Don Imus affair? Why was the boom lowered on him at this time? The answer may have something to do with his main accuser, the Media Matters group, which is emerging as a front organization for Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and has extensive ties to the national Democratic Party. In firing Imus, NBC News and CBS got rid of one of Hillary's major political enemies in the media. Imus in the Mourning: Speaking of double standards, I give you Al Sharpton, who threatened to march on WFAN if [Don] Imus was not fired. Al Sharpton — who gave all those shrieking speeches when the Tawana Brawley case attracted national attention back in 1987. Have we forgotten that Sharpton and two cohorts used an unbalanced young girl to boost their profiles — at the expense of a man whose life they virtually ruined for no reason? America's Pimp 'n' Ho Culture Gets Real. [Two recent incidents] share the opportunistic involvement of those two rogue race-baiting reverends, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Both not only came to the aid of the Rutgers basketball team, but grabbed the microphones before the accused Duke players had their day in court. … In the Duke case, we will succumb to suffocation, I suspect, if we hold our breath waiting for Sharpton and Jackson to apologize for feeding the racist frenzy that condemned those three young men whose lives were nearly ruined by innuendo, lies, an out-of-control prosecutor and a complicit media. The Race Police or Imus: Which Is Worse? We have come to judge public events and motivations nowadays by subjective perceptions rather objective evidence. In Washington or in the media, more and more judgments are made on appearances rather than realities. Down the drain with "innocent until proven guilty." And these changes in cognitive values and justice is what men like Sharpton and Jackson count on. Every day, somewhere in America, there is a perception or misperception (misperceptions mostly, since most perceptions turn out to be incorrect or incomplete) of injustice done to somebody of color. The Cowardly Suits at NBC: It has come as a surprise to many people to learn that racial provocateurs Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who have been in the forefront of criticizing Don Imus, have their own radio programs. But here's an interesting twist: Jesse Jackson's radio program is syndicated around the country in over 40 markets by Premier Radio Networks, which brings Rush Limbaugh to hundreds of radio stations. Premier, which also serves as the authorized advertising sales representative for the Sharpton radio show, is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, often criticized by the "progressive" left for being too conservative. Sharpton Is an Opportunist. What I cannot understand is why Rev. Sharpton is always the black community's go-to guy to deal with the authorities in times of crisis. I also can't help but wonder why the only black community leaders who get significant ink in the mainstream press are the ones who are demagogic self-promoters like Rev. Sharpton and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Bona fide civil rights activists like those at the Congress of Racial Equality are generally ignored by these publications. Bill O'Reilly Sells Out to Sharpton. Watchers of "The Factor" may be interested to know that O'Reilly is paying homage to [Al] Sharpton at the civil rights agitator's upcoming national convention. Lies of the Race-baiters: The race-baiters are back. This time they're aiming to "shut down Wall Street" — in a protest Thursday [12/21/2006] of what they say is "an unspoken but racist" NYPD policy that targets blacks and Hispanics. The event's organizers — groups known as the December 12th Movement and the Black Men's Movement — point to the police shooting of Sean Bell last month as a prime example. They depict white officers as the culprits in a "racist" plot. Only one problem: Six of the nine members of the police task force that shot Sean Bell and his companions last month were black. Six of nine. Of the five shooters, three were black. Update: NY police cleared in 50-bullet wedding day shooting. Three New York City detectives were found not guilty on Friday [4/25/2008] in the shooting death of an unarmed black man killed in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day, prompting angry reactions and a federal review of the case. A New York state judge cleared two police officers of manslaughter and other charges and a third of reckless endangerment in the death of Sean Bell, 23. Bell was shot, along with two friends, after a bachelor party at a strip club in November 2006. Rev. Al Sharpton vows to 'close the city down' after cops' acquittal in Bell trial. Men cursed and shouted. Women wailed and covered their faces. "Oh, no! No!" they yelled, as word spread that three police officers had been cleared of all charges in the 50-bullet shooting that took Sean Bell's life on his wedding day in 2006. To some, the acquittal seemed like more proof that blacks can't get a fair shake in the criminal justice system. The Editor says... A man who spends his wedding day at a strip club shouldn't make loud demands for justice. Jesse Jackson Chases After NASCAR: Jesse Jackson is well-known for playing the race card to intimidate corporations into donating money to his nonprofits and steering business to his friends. Jackson also uses the same tactics against professional sports. NASCAR is one of his latest targets. Jesse Jackson Says Britain Should Apologize for Slavery. Charging that ethnic minorities are still underrepresented in the British government and economy, U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has called on the country to atone for its role in the slave trade. … The slave trade officially was abolished in the British Empire in 1807, but Jackson said Britain today rests on the profits generated by the trade, and the government should apologize for it. NASCAR Urged to Stop Financial Support of Jesse Jackson: A conservative group is urging the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing or NASCAR to end its financial support of Jesse Jackson's organizations because of his recent anti-war activities. Jesse Jackson Wants Felons Back On U.S. Railroads. A civil rights leader infamous for playing the race card is demanding that dozens of railroad workers, fired because their criminal records posed national security concerns, immediately be rehired. … When the Chicago-area rail workers failed their background checks, the Transportation Security Adminstartion, the Homeland Security agency in charge of protecting the nation's transportation systems, dismissed them and the outrage among civil rights leaders ensued because most of the workers are black. Black racism: Whenever I start thinking about all the damage that's been done to America by the social engineering Socialists, I have to remind myself that some of my best friends are left-wingers. … I didn't include Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton among the usual suspects because it's probably not fair to even call these two cheap race hustlers Democrats. In truth, they're nothing but a couple of con men who'd probably be peddling the Brooklyn Bridge to foreign tourists if this black leader gig hadn't panned out so well. African-Americans harmed by myths. We must champion the role models who can demonstrate how to succeed in America through hard work and education rather than by depending on government. ...[Many] black people, notable for their accomplishments, are virtually unknown in the media world, while those who claim that black people cannot succeed in America due to racism — Jesse Jackson, Charles Rangel, Louis Farrakhan and many others — are household names. Katrina 'Ethnic Cleansing' Remarks Causes Stir. A Democrat's allegation that the Bush administration engaged in a calculated policy of ethnic cleansing after Hurricane Katrina to make Louisiana "whiter" has sparked outrage. Addressing a group of bloggers at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., last week, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) renewed his criticism of the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina, particularly the housing crisis that ensued after the hurricane hit. Hurricane Katrina, the race card, and the welfare state. Maybe someday one of the news anchors will ask one of the so-called civil rights leaders the following question: Doesn't the demand for race-based preferences, set-asides, private sector anti-discrimination laws, social welfare programs, and social "safety net" programs all conspire to say one thing — "You are not responsible"? Do poor blacks need to hear "millions more" excuses? Am I suggesting that blacks in America today do not have to contend with the burden of racism? Of course I am not. What I do claim is that the most damaging racism in our community is what it hears from its own leaders. It is the message that black citizens cannot and should not be treated as free and personally responsible individuals. Victimhood: Rhetoric or reality? If you listened to the rhetoric of black politicians and civil rights leaders, dating back to the Reagan years, you would have been convinced that surely by now black Americans would be back on the plantation. According to them, President Reagan, and later Presidents Bush I and II, would turn back the clock on civil rights. … We can now recognize this rhetoric as the political equivalent of the "rope-a-dope." Reverend Al turns to chicken-ism. Despite the continued progress of blacks, the media and "black leadership's" obsession with racism and racial insensitivity creates a mindset that seems blind to progress and to evidence. For example, nearly 50 percent of black Americans, according to a Rand study, consider the HIV virus man-made. More than 50 percent also believe that a cure exists, but that the government intentionally withholds it from the poor. About 16 percent say that the government created AIDS to control the black population, and 15 percent call it a form of genocide against blacks. Nearly 27 percent claim that the government concocted the AIDS virus in a laboratory, and 12 percent believe the CIA created it, and now spreads it! Civil Rights Commissioner Says Attitude of Movement Must Change: Peter Kirsanow, the author of "The Health Care Ghetto," says the rhetoric of today's civil rights leaders frequently is infused with defeatism, disillusionment, and a lack of optimism. Don't Walk the Black Man's Path: Indian elders used to warn against "walking the white man's road." But, since the late 1960s, I'm afraid it is the "black man's path" that has posed a greater peril for us. By the black man's path, I mean the familiar strategy of black civil rights leaders, who bait, belittle, provoke and bully white people, then run for cover, screaming "racist" when their white victims react. Sharpton Joins With an Animal Rights Group in Calling for a Boycott of KFC. The Rev. Al Sharpton will not eat at KFC and he doesn't think you should either. Starting today [2/2/2005], Mr. Sharpton is joining forces with the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to urge a boycott of KFC, which is owned by Yum Brands of Louisville, Ky. [A question for Mr. Sharpton: Where do ribs come from?] Low black voter turnout — who's to blame? Twice as many blacks, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, now say they have little or no confidence in the voting system, compared to 2004. And 29 percent of blacks believe their vote will not be accurately tallied, compared to 8 percent of whites. … But who told blacks that devious Republicans steal their votes? Jesse Jackson, perhaps the most widely quoted "black leader," accused election officials in 2000 of stealing the black vote. See also Liberal Democrats and the Minority Voter. Stop Reparations Now: You'll recognize many of their names immediately. It's a who's who in the racial shakedown racket: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Johnnie Cochran, Randall Robinson, Cornel West. These men, and others from the far left, are preparing for the biggest legal shakedown in history... unless they're stopped. Who Does the "Reparations for Slavery" Charade Really Benefit? Being a race hustler is a very lucrative business for people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. But such people can extort money and power from white business and political leaders precisely because it is easier to pay off a relative handful of noise makers than to be bothered fighting them. But tens of millions of blacks cannot duplicate what a small band of extortionists do. The subject of reparations for slavery is covered here. Sharpton can dish it out, but he can't take it. Mag ticks off Sharpton. The Rev. Al Sharpton is accusing the conservative Weekly Standard of "race baiting" after the magazine caricatured him as a white Senate candidate's white-gloved chauffeur on the cover of its current issue. The Rupert Murdoch-owned glossy portrays Sharpton wearing a "Driving Miss Daisy"-style livery suit, holding open a limo door for Connecticut Democratic Senate contender Ned Lamont, an anti-war candidate the reverend supports. A Race-Baiter Falls from Grace. Will inner-city blacks ever throw off the yoke of self-victimization imposed by "leaders" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Perhaps, judging by the brief fame of race-baiting hispanic demagogue Nativo Lopez, who went muy pronto from media darling to pathetic buffoon. Sharpton: Dems take Blacks for granted. Take blacks for granted? Democratic candidates, almost on cue, troop down to black churches around election time, precisely so that no one argues that the candidate takes blacks for granted. Black & blue: In the mid-20th century, the civil-rights movement lopped off a majority of the black vote for Democrats. Since then, black communities have become microcosmic blue states. And if you're black and a Democrat, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been your unelected mouthpieces for 30 years. That is, until Bill Cosby — entertainer, father, black role model — spoke at a 2004 NAACP symposium on the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling. Will Jimmy Carter please just go away? So, how is it that nobody else ever seems to get called on the carpet for their lies and exaggerations? How is it, for instance, that every liberal from Ted Kennedy to Jesse Jackson can get away with pretending that American blacks are still living like slaves, and that four decades after the Civil Rights Act, the only thing keeping blacks out of the cotton fields are Democrats in Washington? Ohio lunacy: Jesse Jackson has now joined the "Ohio was stolen" team with a rally in Columbus, while civil-rights and left-wing groups are filing lawsuits. They all demand a recount! Get ready for Ohio 2004 to take an honored place in fevered left-wing lore. Speculation about Bush stealing Ohio was fueled by a voting machine in the small city of Gahanna in Franklin County that mistakenly recorded 3,800 votes for the president. It was a software error that was caught and corrected as the normal process of certifying the vote was proceeding. Black voter suppression? No. Exploitation? Yes. Will we ever be able to have a presidential election again without Democrats claiming they've been robbed? All it takes is for some Democrat bigwig or race activist like the Rev. Jesse Jackson to make an unsubstantiated allegation of black voter suppression. So Where Were The Black Leaders?: Within days of the attack Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam vigorously condemned it but I didn't hear anything from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Both men are ordained ministers and Al Sharpton lives in New York. I would've expected some public words of comfort to the families of the victims from both of them. Instead in the first days after the attack there was silence. Racial doublespeak on both sides: Stan Tiner, the executive editor for the Biloxi, Miss., Sun Herald, writes that in his state, "'Conservative' was long a code word for racism, hatred and bigotry." I take Tiner at his word. But that doesn't mean everyone who calls himself a conservative is a bigot. But that is, in fact, exactly what Jesse Jackson and similar activists would have people believe. "In South Africa," Jesse Jackson once said, "we call it apartheid. In Nazi Germany, we'd call it fascism. Here in the United States, we call it conservatism." Jesse Jackson says Wall Street was Built On "African Burial Ground": Jesse Jackson, in a speech on Wednesday [01/15/2003], declared that New York's financial district was built on an "African burial ground" and achieved prosperity "on the backs of African people." Black Leaders Accused of "Selective Outrage" in Inglewood Beating: Prominent African American leaders who called for the immediate dismissal and indictment of police officers in Inglewood, Calif. accused of beating a black teenager are "problem profiteers" guilty of "selective outrage," conservative black leaders said. Endlessly playing the race card: While the Inglewood story is a slice of the truth about America, it is being exploited to support a big lie about America. For the real truth about interracial crime, easily determined from Justice Department statistics, is that white males or white cops are not the primary problem. The truth is that African-American males, 16 to 35, are responsible for a vastly disproportionate share of individual and gang interracial assaults. The Michael Richards Incident Here is the latest example: When two black men were insulted by comedian Michael Richards, it became necessary for Mr. Richards to publicly apologize -- to Sharpton and Jackson! The Crucifixion of Kramer: Evidently, it's okay to be pejorative toward whites if you're black. In fact, it's acceptable for blacks to use scurrilous language toward other blacks, as is often heard in the lyrics of rap music. Moreover, blacks can use similarly disparaging words toward other ethnic groups and refer to women in the vilest type of street language imaginable. The question is: do blacks have some special privileges granted to them by the Constitutional description of freedom of speech? "Kramer's" apology opens the door for others. [No synopsis would do justice to this opinion piece by Larry Elder.] Richards incident says something about morality, too. As satisfying as it might be for some to watch, Mr. Richards groveling around on television apologizing isn't going to help much. Nor are any sums that left wing legal entrepreneur Gloria Allred might extract from him. Nor are apologies to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (the knee-jerk assumption that these two black ministers speak for 40 million black Americans I think is equally racist). Selective Freedom of Speech. What we have here, it seems to me, is the push for "politically correct" speech coming back to bite the pushers. Freedom of speech has been eroded over the years as various words and phrases were singled out as being offensive and banned (not necessarily legally, but practically) from public use. So-called "hate speech" became a crime. O.J., "Kramer" and limits: The racial slur can be used — but only by the race that it targets. Thus in one CBS News story on the word after the Richards outburst, everyone who said the N-word was a black person: the reporter Bill Whitaker, Jesse Jackson, comedian Chris Rock and USC professor Todd Boyd. White reporters don't use the word. Race and Economics: For decades, one of the biggest blind spots of most civil rights "leaders" and "spokesmen" for the black community has been their utter lack of knowledge of economics. The Southern Poverty Law Center: Clumsy Smear Masters. I was slimed by the Southern Poverty Law Center — a group that dresses its leftist agenda in tolerance clichés. Not that I mind. Over the years, I've been smeared by the best. The Poverty Law Center is a rank amateur, by comparison. According to the SPLC, I am a hateful person who bears watching. I'm also "involved with several extremist groups" which are either "anti-immigrant" or "anti-gay." Juan Williams urges blacks to rely on themselves. "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It" is Juan Williams' diatribe against black "leaders" of the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton model, which is to say the self-serving, race-hustling type. Williams also takes to task reparations advocates, black criminals and rappers who are responsible for the most viciously stereotypical images of black people to have ever come down the pike. Race-baiters betray the King legacy. The race-baiting industry has been dangling on the precipice of comic irrelevance for some time. Jesse Jackson's embrace of despots — most recently, Hugo Chavez — has reduced him to bit-player status, and Louis Farrakhan's "whitey blew up the levee" act after the hurricanes removed all doubt about his seriousness. Jackson Pushes Media Ownership Activism. Framing media ownership as a civil rights issue and saying it was time to mobilize against further media consolidation, Rainbow PUSH founder the Reverend Jesse Jackson told a Washington policy luncheon audience Monday [9/25/2006] that his group planned to hold meetings across the country to popularize mass media issues and engage fully in a struggle for the airwaves. Jackson was part of the pushback against the rules in 2003, but he suggested it was time to turn up the heat. That includes a full-time staff to monitor telecommunications issues, but more importantly a push for volunteers to "get in some faces," as Rep. Maxine Waters put it. Just say "No!" When Jesse Jackson Comes Calling. Judicial Watch has released a report that details the shakedown tactics that have been used by Jesse Jackson and his Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition against some of the biggest companies in the world. Jackson's current target is oil giant British Petroleum. Using one of his almost patented malapropisms, Jackson has informed BP that "We don't want charity, we want parity," as he mouthed a laundry list of what the oil company needs to do in order to get the "Reverend" to go away. Judicial Watch Announces "Jesse Jackson Exposed". Jackson had been exposed … as an extortionist who uses his influence as a civil rights leader to essentially blackmail wealthy corporations with absurd discrimination threats. While some of those tactics have been published in the past, this special report offers detailed information — never before released — gathered during the discovery process of Judicial Watch's lawsuit and the subsequent trial. It also includes incriminating admissions from Jackson made under oath at trial. Air America and the race hustlers. Where are they? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the supermen of the civil rights establishment — able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to get in front of a picket line. When victim politics calls, the demagogic duo leap into patented action: March. Boycott. Shakedown. Repeat. But the raging reverends are nowhere to be found as a scandal involving the liberal radio network Air America and a Bronx, N.Y.-based inner city charity for poor children brews. Why the silence? The Racism-Industry Lynch Mob: Who Benefits? During a long string of child and youth murders in Atlanta, Jesse Jackson declared: "It's open season on black people," the result of a "cultural conspiracy." Ultimately one person, Wayne Williams, was convicted for murdering two of the victims and linked to the killing of 29 others. Williams is black. Yet as this article appears, Showtime is running its movie Who's Killing Atlanta's Children, barely mentioning Williams but rather implicating, yes, a KKK-led conspiracy. Liberal Media Offering Spotlight to David Duke? Chicago area Congressman Gus Savage … a locally renowned race-baiter, charged "racism" when his son was arrested in Washington for driving an unregistered car without a license — even though the mayor, the police chief, and the arresting officers were all black. In 1988 he invited to come with him to the Democratic National Convention a black activist who claimed that Jewish doctors were responsible for injecting black babies with the AIDS virus. … He called "historically, culturally, and politically accurate" Louis Farrakhan's statement that "Hitler was a great man" and Judaism is a "gutter religion." The problem with pulpit politics: In a move that isn't surprising, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry recently appointed the Rev. Jesse Jackson as a senior consultant to his campaign. The appointment of Mr. Jackson is part of a Democratic strategy in presidential elections that promotes the belief that all it takes to woo black voters is one person sent to certain areas (especially black churches) in the days leading up to the elections. Barry Lynn is Trying to Scare Churches … Again. Traditionally, the Democratic candidates speak in many African-American churches during their presidential campaigns. Sunday, July 18, [2004], Sen. John Edwards spoke in the pulpit of the St. Mark AME Church in Orlando. As reported in wire stories and on NBC Nightly News, the pastor of the church strongly endorsed the Kerry-Edwards ticket. As also shown on this same NBC broadcast, Sen. John Kerry, on April 4, [2004] spoke in a large African-American church where the pastor introduced him as "the next President of the United States." Bill Clinton and Al Gore routinely conducted similar church-based campaigning. Editor's Note: Imagine the ourcry you would see and hear in the news media if George W. Bush campaigned in an all-white church and had them pass the collection plate for political contributions. Why is it okay — even expected — for John Edwards or John Kerry or Jesse Jackson to raise money in an all-black church? Hillary's Plantation: Mrs. Clinton's "offense" … came from a corruption in post-'60s liberalism and Democratic politics that profoundly insults blacks. Mrs. Clinton came to Al Sharpton's MLK celebration looking for an easy harvest of black votes. And she knew the drill — white liberals and Dems whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance. Once positioned as the white champions of this grievance, they actually turn black resentment into white liberal power. All quiet on Hillary's plantation. With [Al] Sharpton proudly looking on, [Hillary Rodham Clinton] threw the race card on the table with a big, noisy thwack. "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about." … Had Trent Lott uttered those words last week about Democrats, today he'd be unhappily retired in Mississippi. But it was Hillary attacking Republicans, so the news coverage was very, very different. Why Democrats are tagged as the party without values: To most Americans, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are race-baiting demagogues. Yet they are heroes to the Democratic Party. Most Americans do not see their country as the bigoted and racist nation regularly depicted by both black and white Democratic leaders. "Black History Month" Renamed To Promote Anti-War Agenda: Liberal Democrats in New York City have renamed Black History Month to reflect the anti-war sentiments expressed by protest groups and political leaders such as presidential candidate Al Sharpton. The "D" stands for demagogue. The freaks come out at night. The demagogues came out on Martin Luther King Day. Democrat N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton, perhaps looking to distract attention from those pesky Code Pink protesters who've been dogging her over the Iraq war, commemorated the holiday by pulling a reverse Sister Souljah at race hustler Al Sharpton's pulpit in Harlem. … When a Democrat politician stumps at a church, you see, it's "minority outreach." When a Republican politician stumps at a church, it's a theocratic outrage. What about the Religious Left?: For years the Reverend Jesse Jackson has asserted that political engagement from the pulpit is an essential part of the church's moral responsibility. In 1988, Jackson's presidential campaign was financed in part with cash donations openly collected in black churches. The Attacks on Condoleezza Rice: The attacks on Condoleezza Rice by some of the Democrats is something to behold. It's been nearly half a century since a white person, any white person, dared criticize a black person. And the criticism here is not polite. It is about as harsh as it gets in the public arena — repeatedly calling a person in a high level government position a bald-faced liar goes way beyond a difference of opinion. It is even more unusual not to hear a loud chorus of black people and black organizations, supported by the national media, coming to her defense. Most of the time, there is a black organization or black person on every corner poised to scream racism whenever a white person criticizes a black person. Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, and others? Why I cannot vote for John Kerry. [Reason #5:] A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Jesse Jackson, whom Kerry has named a top adviser; and for Al Sharpton, with whom Kerry campaigns; for Sean Penn and his Hollywood world; and for the passionately pro-Kerry MTV, the greatest destroyer of young people's minds and souls in American history. Otis Moss Subsection New Obama pastor will continue Wright's legacy. Otis Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at Barack Obama's Chicago church, subscribes to the ideology of retiring pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and is expected to continue Wright's legacy, according to Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black Panther Party. Uh-oh, here we go again: Meet Obama's new pastor. Otis Moss III, lauded this week by Obama as a "wonderful young pastor," also recently refused to deny claims by Wright that the U.S. government was involved in distributing illegal drugs to minorities or spreading the AIDS virus to blacks. The 37-year-old Moss, nicknamed the "hip-hop pastor" by congregants, will become the head of Trinity Christ in June, taking over for Wright, whose controversial remarks landed Obama in hot water. In Easter Sermon, New Obama Pastor Charges Rev. Wright Victim of 'Lynching'. The criticism surrounding Wright has not softened the services at Trinity United Church of Christ, where Obama has been a congregant for 20 years. Instead, Moss defiantly defended their method of worship, referencing rap lyrics to make his point. "If I was Ice Cube I'd say it a little differently — 'You picked the wrong folk to mess with,'" Moss said to an enthusiastic congregation, standing up during much of the sermon, titled "How to Handle a Public Lynching." Wright's replacement cites lyrics saying U.S. 'still with the triple K'. Otis Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ, referenced a rap song during one of his recent sermons that includes among its lyrics "F--- America" and states the U.S. is "still with triple K" — referring to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan. Moss was lauded last week by Sen. Barack Obama as a "wonderful young pastor," and an acceptable choice to replace retiring pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright…. 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