Thats cause his status isnt organic.
Who the hell do you even know that actually follows and looks up to Al Sharpton?
Had this been anyother 'black leader', the media would have a field day his dirt.
But when youre backed by TPTB (the powers that be), your status is both forced on the people, and there to stay until TPTB decide you are no longer of any use.
Sharpton has these baby boomers locked down...
Black people from that era as a whole look at Sharpton the way they look at organized religion...
They gonna defend him even when logic suggests otherwise