Al Sharpton’s Blame Game is Losing Credibility
Well, it looks like our old buddy, Al, “No Justice, No Peace,” Sharpton is at it again. He’s the “civil rights” leader turned MSNBC commentator who never met a tragedy he couldn’t exploit for personal or professional gain.
Al Sharpton has now attached himself to the “cause” of combatting a deadly epidemic of police violence against young black men in America. Now if Al were working overtime to improve the state of the black family or black education or engaging in constructive activities related to black crime or saving the unborn, his efforts would be seen as helpful to the community and to the nation as a whole. But that’s not Al’s M.O.
Al has perfected the game of standing with the grieving parents of dead black men. More recently, he has surrounded himself with mobs carrying signs like “Real” thugs wear flag pins and those who advocate death to police officers. He pontificates at great length about how the problem lies everywhere, but in the black community where too many people are making bad choices.
It’s everyone’s fault accept the individual who has had an unfortunate encounter with the police. It’s the white man’s fault, the cop’s fault, the shop keeper’ fault or it’s the government’s fault. Hey, it just as well might be Fred and Wilma Flintstone’s fault for all the good the blame game does. Blaming everyone and everything does nothing to improve conditions in black communities nor does prevent similar deaths in the future.
The sad fact is the Al Sharpton has a profitable job based on other people’s misery. If conditions in black communities radically improved and people began to take responsibility for themselves and their off-spring, old Al would be out of a job, and so would the civil rights industry that seems locked in a time warp.
Nothing is sadder than the chants heard at the NYC march that Al led a few days ago. Members of his crowd chanted: What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want them? Now!” The only good news from this event was that numerous people left early and many young people expressed dissatisfaction, saying that they were just not that into Al. The time has come for this adviser to the President to put down his megaphone, pay his delinquent taxes, and exit the scene. There is hope for black America. It will come from new leaders and new strategies for addressing stubborn problems. Problems that can never be addressed by looking to others.
