Al Sharpton appreciation thread.

[Kritic]

Al Sharpton? The same guy that supported minimum sentencing and the war on drugs? The dead beat dad? The con man and attention whore? This the dude you appreciate? He does good but he is to far gone to be a black leader. The only man I could see that could pull us together in a push for action is Obama after he gets out of office. Could you imagine him going to the Chi and organizing a major stop the violence campaign?... is would be a snow ball effect to hit hard on the other issues affecting black America... but we all know Barry to bytch made for that action

so barack will have more pull out of office than IN office?

I'm ing because you're probably right. which blows my mind. but after office that'd be the last thing on his mind.

 

[Born2BKing]

Al Sharpton? The same guy that supported minimum sentencing and the war on drugs? The dead beat dad? The con man and attention whore? This the dude you appreciate? He does good but he is to far gone to be a black leader. The only man I could see that could pull us together in a push for action is Obama after he gets out of office. Could you imagine him going to the Chi and organizing a major stop the violence campaign?... is would be a snow ball effect to hit hard on the other issues affecting black America... but we all know Barry to bytch made for that action

Man please, if Obama did that shyt nikkas like you would call him a race hustler and say the same shyt about him. shyt is sad how we disrespect dudes who actually at least attempt to change shyt in our community but look up to rappers and damn athletes.

On Drugs: Something wrong with mandatory time for drug users
The priority [in the War on Drugs] seems to be to lock up the low-level guys, many under federal mandatory drug sentencing laws who are caught with a small quantity of crack. Now, I don't condone the actions of that guy, but why should he spend a minimum of 5 to 10 years in jail for a small quantity of crack the size of a "Sweet `N Low" packet, while the drug lord doesn't face any mandatory time? There's something wrong with that picture.
The war on drugs must be fought at a higher level. We have to use trade leverage to go after the countries that produce the drugs-who openly allow drugs to be in their economy-and put them out of business.

Perhaps the reason why the US doesn't go after the real drug lords and the real drug producers and sellers is because it would be bad business on both ends. We make money with the countries that produce the drugs, and we make money by sending the low-level drug criminal to jail for a long time.

Source: Al On America, by Rev. Al Sharpton, p. 130-31


On Crime: Focus on prevention instead of Three Strikes
I am opposed to the three-strikes-and-you're-out law. Instead of setting up a multi-tiered way to permanently incarcerate people, we ought to be setting up programs that will prevent people from becoming repeat offenders. What the Crime Bill of the Clinton Administration did was spend more money to penalize and incarcerate people than no having things like afterschool and tutorial programs that would prevent young people from becoming repeat offenders. They don't give any alternative to crime.

 

[Box Cutta]

I don't agree with everything that Sharpton does but he is by and large a great man and it's sad to see that some cacs have been able to turn bruthas away from him.

The Bradley incident? So what? Defend blacks women FIRST, worry about facts LATER, that's EXACTLY what white men do, have done, and will continue to do well into the near future.

Nobody shyts on every fukking crooked cop that bashed a niccas head in when some white whore falsely accuses him of rape, but we have to act like we are supposed to have some higher level of scrutiny when our women are raped. fukk THAT,

 

[Calmye]

Man please, if Obama did that shyt nikkas like you would call him a race hustler and say the same shyt about him. shyt is sad how we disrespect dudes who actually at least attempt to change shyt in our community but look up to rappers and damn athletes.

Da fukk are you talking about you piece of shyt? Its obvious that Obama could have been a huge leader for not just blacks but for the new America after race platform he was pushing. Do you not remember how white people loved this man in 2004 after the convention? He got bogged down in an office that is in its self divisive. And what fukking rapper do I look up to you dumb fukk? You over here sucking a old hustlers dikk like he is some type of savior. Do your research on the man's back round before you talk shyt about me opinion. The man supported the war on drugs and minimum sentencing. Those two policies are the major reasons why they are more black folks in prison then were slaves in 1860. And you want to put that nikka in front to lead???? You weak minded sheep the fukk you need a lead for anyway

 

[Calmye]

I'm not saying the dude is a devil. He is obviously a Good man but their is know way we can have a man with so much baggage as the voice for black folks. Its that simple

 

[Calmye]

To much baggage to be the voice homie @Born2BKing

Al Sharpton Accused of Helping Lead FBI to Assata Shakur
The Rev. and the Fugitive Sharpton tried to set up Chesimard, activists say
By Ron Howell, Newsday, Friday 21 October 1988

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has worked as a federal informant, tried to set up a meeting with black fugitive radical JoAnne Chesimard in 1983, according to activists who said they were approached by Sharpton.

The black activists said they feared Sharpton was trying to deliver Chesimard into the arms of federal agents, but said they had no proof.

One law-enforcement source, who declined to be identified but has detailed knowledge of Sharpton’s activities as an FBI informant, said this week that Sharpton was working as an informant at the time he sought to meet Chesimard. The source said that one of Sharpton’s assignments was to try to lead agents to Chesimard, who escaped from prison in 1979 after being convicted in the killing a New Jersey state trooper.

“It wasn’t a big massive operation. It was just a small shot, an everyday deal,” the source said. “I would equate it with setting up 10 traps a day trying to catch a fox . . .” He said Sharpton was not a major participant in the search for the woman, who goes by the African name Assata Shakur.

A top FBI official said that Sharpton was not used in any manner to lure Shakur into a trap. “This is the first I’m hearing of it, it’s bull———,” FBI Assistant Deputy Director Kenneth Walton, who led the Shakur investigation, said earlier this week.

Sharpton flatly denied trying to make contact with Shakur.

Newsday reported in January that beginning in 1983 Sharpton secretly supplied federal law enforcement agencies with information on boxing promoter Don King, reputed organized crime figures and black leaders and elected officials. And in a two-hour interview, Sharpton admitted to Newsday that he had assisted the government in drug and organized crime cases. He said he also accompanied undercover federal agents wearing body recorders to meetings with various subjects of federal investigations. He said he had allowed the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York to install a tapped telephone in his Brooklyn home.

Sharpton has insisted he never turned over information on black radicals or on King.

This week, Sharpton denied assertions by Ahmed Obafemi, a long-time activist, and Kwame Brathwaite, an activist and photographer who says Sharpton asked him to set up an encounter with Obafemi. Both men say that Obafemi acted as the intermediary in the failed discussions with Sharpton to reach Shakur.

Sharpton called the men “liars” and said they were possibly “police agents.” He charged they are part of “an element in the black community that has lost out . . . and that will fabricate any story out of jealousy because they have no following . . . ”

Obafemi, the national organizer for the New Afrikan People’s Organization, said Sharpton met with him in Manhattan at least four times in 1983, over a period of about two months. He said that Sharpton offered to donate money to help black revolutionaries running from the law and that Sharpton was particularly interested in setting up a meeting with Shakur, once referred to as the “soul” of the Black Liberation Army.

Sharpton told Obafemi he was representing two former Black Panthers, who wanted to see Shakur, according to Obafemi.

The ex-Panthers were supposedly trying to make useful contacts in case they had to flee the country someday, Obafemi said he was told.

“The first discussion was that they were close to her, that they had been in the [Black Panther] party with her and that they wanted to talk to her,” Obafemi said. “I wanted to find out who they were, but he said they really didn’t want to be known.”

Shakur was once a member of the Black Panther Party, but went underground around 1971 because she said she believed the group was being infiltrated by city and federal law enforcement officers.

The 1983 deal fell through at a final meeting when Sharpton insisted that money would be donated only if the two former Panthers could meet Shakur. Failing that, Obafemi said, Sharpton was interested in making any kind of “contact” with her or with any of her close associates also on the run from the law. “Naturally, I never got back” to him, said Obafemi, whose organization believes that blacks should have their own country within the United States and that they have the right to fight for it.

“Obviously we had to feel that a definite possibility existed he was working for the government, and we would have felt that way about him or anybody else who approached us in that manner,” said Chokwe Lumumba, an attorney and chairman of the New Afrikan People’s Organization.

Lumumba had been informed in 1983 by Obafemi about Sharpton’s proposal. The attorney said his organization was more interested in getting information about Sharpton’s motives than in receiving money from him. “I can’t say that we were able to make any definite conclusions” about whether Sharpton was acting as an agent for the government, Lumumba said.

Both Lumumba and Obafemi denied knowing where Shakur was at the time.


Sharpton’s first broached his interest in Shakur during a chance encounter with Brathwaite, a black nationalist, Brathwaite said. Brathwaite said he happened to run into Sharpton one day in midtown but he could not remember the month. Already acquainted with each other from entertainment circles, the two men started talking and Sharpton “said he wanted to make a donation to Assata,” Brathwaite said.

A day or two later, Brathwaite told Obafemi of the offer. “I told him to watch out,” said Brathwaite. “I knew that authorities were trying to find out where she [Assata Shakur] was and that they were trying to get close to somebody who was close to her . . . And then I just knew that he’s always been a hustler.”

Last year, Newsday disclosed that Shakur was given political asylum in Cuba and was living there with her daughter, now 14 years old. She is probably the most sought-after of the 1970s radicals linked to bank robberies and police killings over a 10-year span.

The specific amount of the contribution Sharpton said he was prepared to make in 1983 on behalf of the ex-Panthers was not discussed, Obafemi said; but Sharpton said the prospective contributors gained the money by “ripping off the system,” Obafemi recalled.

He said that at least two of the meetings occurred in a luxurious apartment at 30 Lincoln Plaza, near Lincoln Center. That was the building where, according to a law enforcement source and a report published in the Feb. 2, 1988 edition of The Village Voice, a federal agent using the name Victor Quintana set up an apartment in 1983 or earlier to lure boxing world denizens suspected of illegal activity. Quintana in that year ensnared Sharpton into working for the FBI, New York Newsday reported in January.

The Village Voice article reported that apartment was on the 29th floor, but Obafemi could not recall the floor on which he had his rendezvous with Sharpton. Sharpton lives in Brooklyn and Obafemi said he did not explain why Sharpton had access to the apartment. “He made me think it was his,” said Obafemi. “I was saying (to myself), ’What kind of money must they have to have a spot in here.’ He had the keys and everything.”

Sharpton denied this week ever being in the building.

Obafemi said that up until 1983 he knew Sharpton only as the head of a youth organization, the National Youth Movement, and as someone with vague connections in the entertainment world.

Obafemi is the ex-husband of Nehanda Obafemi, once known as Cheri Laverne Dalton, who is still wanted by the federal government in connection with the notorious Brink’s robbery which took place seven years ago yesterday. She is allegedly connected to the group of black and white revolutionaries convicted in the Brink’s heist. A guard and two police officers were killed in that incident, which took place upstate near Nyack.

In 1983, Obafemi was busy trying to gain support in the black community for the people arrested in the Brink’s case. In October of that year, several blacks and whites were convicted in that robbery and in the highly planned breakout of Shakur from prison in 1979.

The law enforcement source implicating Sharpton in the hunt for Assata Shakur said that Sharpton was also, secondarily, trying to help agents get other fugitives, especially Mutulu Shakur, who was still on the run at that time. Mutulu Shakur, no relation to Assata, was later apprehended and convicted in connection with the Brink’s robbery and the escape of Assata Shakur.

Robert E. Kessler contributed to this story.

[***The following appeared in the City version***Brathwaite is the brother of Elombe Brath, an official of a black nationalist organization called the Patrice Lumumba Coalition. Brath and several associates have been opposed to Sharpton because of his FBI ties. ]
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[samtalksradio]

al Sharpton is a great man he makes uncle toms in the white boys mad

 

[Calmye]

al Sharpton is a great man he makes on uncle toms in the white boys mad

And the ignorant black sheep put a collar on and beg to be led

 

[Born2BKing]

And the ignorant black sheep put a collar on and beg to be led

Naw you just a fukking Uncle Tom ass fakkit. Never did I say Al Sharpton was perfect but the nikka has done more for the community in one day than your funky ass has in your life. bytch ass nikka, I hope Al Sharpton fukks your mama nikka. Ol disrespectful ass mafukka.

 

[Born2BKing]

I'm not saying the dude is a devil. He is obviously a Good man but their is know way we can have a man with so much baggage as the voice for black folks. Its that simple

I don't agree with everything that Sharpton does but he is by and large a great man and it's sad to see that some cacs have been able to turn bruthas away from him.

The Bradley incident? So what? Defend blacks women FIRST, worry about facts LATER, that's EXACTLY what white men do, have done, and will continue to do well into the near future.

Nobody shyts on every fukking crooked cop that bashed a niccas head in when some white whore falsely accuses him of rape, but we have to act like we are supposed to have some higher level of scrutiny when our women are raped. fukk THAT,

shyt is sad bruh. nikkas in here acting like Al Sharpton rides Bentley's and rocks ice on his neck on private planes. One nikka was mad because people donate to his National Action Network which does things in urban communities all over the damn country. It's sad how on here, so many so called black posters sound like the commentators on Fox News and buy into that narrative that we should hate any black leader in 2013. You got black folks on here who don't like MLK Jr because he was not violent enough. This site is full of against the grain fakkits like sicc2bytch

 

[Calmye]

Naw you just a fukking Uncle Tom ass fakkit. Never did I say Al Sharpton was perfect but the nikka has done more for the community in one day than your funky ass has in your life. bytch ass nikka, I hope Al Sharpton fukks your mama nikka. Ol disrespectful ass mafukka.

You haven't a fukking clue who I am you piece of shyt. I've been in these race wars in Sacramento and Orange County fighting against the police brutality and these racists Mexicans. Al Sharpton is a great man to have in the tranches but he can't be the voice of black Americans. You act like the 80s and 90s didnt happen. He had his chance

 

[Calmye]

shyt is sad bruh. nikkas in here acting like Al Sharpton rides Bentley's and rocks ice on his neck on private planes. One nikka was mad because people donate to his National Action Network which does things in urban communities all over the damn country. It's sad how on here, so many so called black posters sound like the commentators on Fox News and buy into that narrative that we should hate any black leader in 2013. You got black folks on here who don't like MLK Jr because he was not violent enough. This site is full of against the grain fakkits like sicc2bytch

shyt is sad bruh. nikkas in here acting like Al Sharpton rides Bentley's and rocks ice on his neck on private planes. One nikka was mad because people donate to his National Action Network which does things in urban communities all over the damn country. It's sad how on here, so many so called black posters sound like the commentators on Fox News and buy into that narrative that we should hate any black leader in 2013. You got black folks on here who don't like MLK Jr because he was not violent enough. This site is full of against the grain fakkits like sicc2bytch

Your trying to hard breh go sit your ass down somewhere

 

[Born2BKing]

You haven't a fukking clue who I am you piece of shyt. I've been in these race wars in Sacramento and Orange County fighting against the police brutality and these racists Mexicans. Al Sharpton is a great man to have in the tranches but he can't be the voice of black Americans. You act like the 80s and 90s didnt happen. He had his chance

Who said he was the only voice of black america mafukka? People ask him for support and to rally for efforts and he does the shyt. I don't know any black man who names Al Sharpton when asked who the biggest black leader in our country is. Damn this thread was just to show a little damn appreciation for the stuff he has done but nikkas wanna turn this into a bash fest for stuff you may not agree that he has done. Sicc2def sounds like a screen name a hipster cac would pick. Yo yo yo bro I be funky fresh wit my b boy team yo. I be's sicc2def son. You trying to hard fakkit mufukka. Don't quote me no more and get your stupid ass out my fukking thread you simple ass nikka.

 

[Calmye]

Who said he was the only voice of black america mafukka? People ask him for support and to rally for efforts and he does the shyt. I don't know any black man who names Al Sharpton when asked who the biggest black leader in our country is. Damn this thread was just to show a little damn appreciation for the stuff he has done but nikkas wanna turn this into a bash fest for stuff you may not agree that he has done. Sicc2def sounds like a screen name a hipster cac would pick. Yo yo yo bro I be funky fresh wit my b boy team yo. I be's sicc2def son. You trying to hard fakkit mufukka. Don't quote me no more and get your stupid ass out my fukking thread you simple ass nikka.

So now this is just a thread about his acts for the community. . Of course like I said he is the guy you want in the trenches you fukking idiot. Your the one talking all this lead of the people bullshyt im just letting your stupid ass know how irrational That would be. And at this internet thug persona. You embarrassing urself clown

 

[Born2BKing]

So now this is just a thread about his acts for the community. . Of course like I said he is the guy you want in the trenches you fukking idiot. Your the one talking all this lead of the people bullshyt im just letting your stupid ass know how irrational That would be. And at this internet thug persona. You embarrassing urself clown

Don't quote me no more and get your stupid ass out my fukking thread you simple ass nikka