“F*** Al Sharpton!” Ferguson protesters chanted

[glasshouses]

“F*** Al Sharpton!” Ferguson protesters chanted. Unreceptive to Al Shartpon’s civil rights advocacy, young activists have been shrugging off the reverend as a parasite; a spotlight-hungry leech on the #BlackLivesMatter movement. And Sharpton is not having it, CapitalNewYork reports - See more at: http://madamenoire.com/508462/cant-stupid-rev-al-sharpton-lashes-young-activists-denounce/#sthash.oqJ2iRXp.dpuf

[F4lconF16]

1. Good for them. nt

[Ykcutnek]

2. The chant of a group doomed for failure.

Sharpton is one of their best advocates, but they're too young and stupid to realize it.

Sigh.

[Throd]

4. You should tell them that.

[Glassunion]

9. In my own experience, he stopped representing me a long time ago.

[CatWoman]

16. how soon people (?) forget

he was ASKED to come to Ferguson. And Sanford. AND NYC. AND Detroit.

Al Sharpton didn't start the fire.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. From the same article; Rev defends himself:

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Sharpton added that “they” — whomever “they” are — are misguiding the young activists to focus on him when protesters should be funneling their energies to revamping the system:

“They got you arguing about who going to lead a march—the old or the young—when they cutting up the city budget. You can’t be that stupid! You more worried about who going to lead [National Action Network] than who going to be the governor with a multi-billion dollar budget that you got to pay state tax in. You can’t be that stupid.”

Sharpton went on to say that younger civil rights activists in the Ferguson movement are being “pimped”:

“[Younger activists] were told, ‘Your problem is Al Sharpton and the other guys.’ Anytime you have movements, whether it’s in Ferguson, whether it’s in New York, whether it’s in Denver, wherever it is, when they got you more angry at your parents then they got you at the vote you’re supposed to be out there for, you’re being tricked and you’re trying to turn the community into tricks. And they are pimping you, to do the Willie Lynch [reference to a colonial-era slave owner] in our community.”

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[LittleBlue]

5. "a spotlight-hungry leech"

Apparently, he's also an FBI informant who was caught on camera discussing a cocaine deal. So he ratted out his pals in the Genovese crime family.

Silver tongue but slimy as hell.

[ryan_cats]

6. Don't forget Tawana Brawly. (sp?)

Don't forget Tawana Brawly. (sp?)

[CatWoman]

11. how can anyone

with people like you around to remind us to not forget her?

[greytdemocrat]

7. He's a race baiting POS

But other than that...

[BklnDem75]

8. Care to explain? nt

[CatWoman]

10. i'd like to hear that explanation as well............

[HappyMe]

13. What?

Explain.

Please do. As a white woman, I'm looking forward to your excus...explainations.

[steve2470]

15. explain please nt

[nomorenomore08]

17. Ironically, most people who complain about "race baiting" do plenty of it themselves. n/t

[AngryAmish]

12. Just another comcast/msnbc paid liar.

[BklnDem75]

14. People sure do want to silence Sharpton...

There's quite a bunch of willing idiots that's more than happy to help to their own detriment. I have little doubt the 'fuck Sharpton' crowd are probably the ones who'd set fires to be heard. Without Sharpton, Ferguson would be local news. That's why some hate him. I appreciate him.