THE GANDER GETS HIS TODAY FROM LARRY Elder, who notes that Al Sharpton is a fine one to demand apologies for racial slurs. For those not following this story, Sharpton has demanded an apology from Vincente Fox for noting that Mexicans take the jobs that "even blacks" won't take.
But Sharpton condemning Fox for racial slurs is a little of the pot calling the kettle black.
He falsely accused then-district attorney Steven Pagones of raping Tawana Brawley. Brawley claimed a white man abducted and raped her, scrawling racial epithets on her body with feces! A grand jury later determined that Brawley made everything up to avoid punishment for staying out too late. Pagones received death threats and threats against his child. A unanimous jury found Sharpton liable for defamation, but it took Pagones over two years to collect Sharpton's judgment. Apparently, Sharpton transferred his assets to his wife's name, paying Pagones only when Sharpton's friends ponied up the money. To this day, Sharpton refuses to apologize.
A voice for justice?
In 1991, Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, was killed in a Crown Heights (Brooklyn) traffic accident, when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton turned it into a racial incident, leading 400 protesters -- one holding a sign reading, "The White Man Is the Devil" -- through Crown Heights' Jewish section. Sharpton called Jews "diamond merchants," and later said, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." During four nights of rock- and bottle-throwing, a young Talmudic scholar was surrounded by a mob shouting, "Kill the Jew!" and stabbed to death. A hundred others were injured.
There are a few more examples and a delicious segment on Sharpton's coke deal gone bad.
It continues to boggle the mind that such a racist can be a leader in the Democratic Party.
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