But the speaker of the quote in this post title is — did you guess? — Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton was telling off Charles Rangel. Rangel, 84, is running for reelection to the congressional seat he's held since 1970 and has a couple challengers in the primary. Criticizing Rangel's generation, the Harlem "Gang of Four" and the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus, Sharpton said:
“Part of the problem is that they didn’t groom their replacements.... When you don’t groom your replacements, and you operate like you’re going to live forever, then people in the next generation, that you did not invest in, start taking steps themselves. That’s where I think a Michael Walrond and an Adriano Espaillat come from.”Walrond and Espaillat are the 2 challengers. Espaillat, like Sharpton himself, is 59. Walrond is 42.
“Whatever I have or don’t have, you did not help me build it,” [Sharpton] said, referring to Mr. Rangel’s colleagues. “So what you can’t do is come to me and say I owe you. I built my reputation, influence, whatever you want to call it, because I fought civil rights issues and people responded. None of them put me in position. It’s just that simple.”
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You didn't post that. I didn't post this.
Everybody is innocent!
I would applaud the statement and sentiment if Sharpton weren't such an amoral piece of shit.
Can't believe I'm agreeing with Sharpton but good lord, 44 years?! The career politician is truly an absurd creature. I'll never understand why hard term limits aren't ubiquitous in our political systems.
"I built my reputation, influence, whatever you want to call it, because I fought civil rights issues and people responded."
DAAAAAMMNNNN!!!!
That's a split. Harlem politics is no joke. And it's true:
People hate/love Sharpton because he's been an unvarnished, old school, gut bucket, do-for-the-least Civil Rights leader. And, while blacks are grateful to have somebody occupying a seat at the table, when the chips are down, who you gonna call - insider Rangel or underdog champion Sharpton?
Everybody knows the answer to that,...
Make that liberal abide by his own damn rules, I say!
Oh, wait, that was Alinsky. But watching what happens when a liberal is forced to abide by liberal proscriptions is still good clean fun for the whole family, until the cussing starts.
OK, who are the Uncle Tom's?
So, we can read this to mean that Sharpton at long last takes responsibility for himself? Remember Tawana Brawley, Al?
Charlie is the beloved congressman from Inwood, among other bailiwicks, but with redistricting, his district has now spread to Norwood in The Bronx.
He has a lot of Dominicans & more Whites than ever before.
Could lose.
Oh, well, [too many commas, Prof A?] there is now a "No Left Turn" from B'way sign at the Dyckman/B'way/Riverside Dr. dangerous intersection, so maybe he'll take credit for that.
But I'm sure some of the money involved went to Charlie's cronies.
I do get Al's "youth must be served" comment, but Al as a "yoot" is LOL.
Rangle, he is the guy who was the head of the tax writing committee that didn't understand he had to pay taxes. Got it. Kind of like the IRS didn't think they had to keep emails.
The Crack Emcee said...
"I built my reputation, influence, whatever you want to call it, because I fought civil rights issues and people responded."
DAAAAAMMNNNN!!!!
That's a split. Harlem politics is no joke. And it's true:
People hate/love Sharpton because he's been an unvarnished, old school, gut bucket, do-for-the-least Civil Rights leader. And, while blacks are grateful to have somebody occupying a seat at the table, when the chips are down, who you gonna call - insider Rangel or underdog champion Sharpton?
Everybody knows the answer to that,...
6/17/14, 10:37 AM
The only seat that bastard Sharption deserves is the seat on the electric chair for Freddies Mart and Crown Heights. If Rangel lives another fifty years he couldn't be as sleazy and criminal as Sharpton is now and I don't like Rangel in the least.
Sharpton was "built" by the secret donors who paid the judgment in the Brawley case to lift the ban on his presence in New York. He is still a lying lawless weasel but he is not alone anymore.
If you have a false charge of rape you want to peddle or a korean store to burn down Sharpton is your best choice.
Wait, someone in NYC is saying that the primary beneficiary of Charlie Rangel's long tenure in Congress was Charlie Rangel?
Gosh! If only you could see the look of surprise on my face......
when the chips are down, who you gonna call - insider Rangel or underdog champion Sharpton?
Everybody knows the answer to that,...
in my case I'll echo Brewster from Brewsterd millions and choose none of the above.
Get some Uncle Tom in there who's less about race and more about being business friendly and he'll rise more boats.same old same old gets you more of the same old. And how's that been working out for blacks?
Also, Rangel really is a perfect example of why we need term limits for congress AND the Supreme Court. Let's have fewer elder statesman who've been there since the time if re dinosaur and more
New blood who are there for a few years and then move on.
Also, Rangel really is a perfect example of why we need term limits for congress AND the Supreme Court. Let's have fewer elder statesman who've been there since the time if re dinosaur and more
New blood who are there for a few years and then move on.
Has Sharpton groomed his own replacement?
It is unmitigated racism to suggest that Rangel should understand the taxes that he writes.
Crack is teaching me all about my racist tendencies.
Let's have a Trayvon thread next. It could start with "If Obama had a grandson, he would look like George Zimmerman." and we could have the racism of that statement clearly elucidated by Crack.
Michael K,
"He is still a lying lawless weasel but he is not alone anymore."
I'll take Al Sharpton's sense of ethics, over America's, any day. His are fathomable. A country that creates a Sharpton - indeed, makes a Sharpton necessary - and then acts like he's the fiend? That steals from us, rapes us, terrorizes us, bombs us, murders us, etc., and then says we're citizens they don't have to care about, because freedom means being an individual who pulls himself up?
Now that's a evil that goes beyond human comprehension.
In truth, it's you mass murderers who've never been alone - until now,...
You can't but like Rangel, since what you see is what you get. Back when I used to watch Sean Hannity, I always loved it when Charlie Rangel was on the air with him.
Sharpton is race hustler without equal. I stifle my disgust because he was a friend of James Brown who I had the greatest regard for.
Rangel succeeded Adam Clayton Powell who, if memory serves, didn't go gentle into that good night. Powell had some successes and some scandals. He was of the opinion that he owned the Harlem seat. Rangel is acting out the same drama but this time he's playing the Powell role.......Rangel doesn't seem grotesquely corrupt, and he has some decent instincts and doesn't make WTF pronouncements. You could do worse than Rangel.
Sharpton is a thug, hustler, liar, con man and should be in jail.
Of course he's a hero in the Black community.
"I'll take Al Sharpton's sense of ethics, over America's, any day. His are fathomable. A country that creates a Sharpton - indeed, makes a Sharpton necessary - and then acts like he's the fiend? That steals from us, rapes us, terrorizes us, bombs us, murders us, etc., and then says we're citizens they don't have to care about, because freedom means being an individual who pulls himself up?
Now that's a evil that goes beyond human comprehension.
In truth, it's you mass murderers who've never been alone - until now,..."
When you're fighting against monsters, like American Whites, everything is justified. Everything.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Eighty four years is too old to be making the country's decisions.
Retire.
Sharpton should be congratulated for his success. Few men have accomplished more to alienate people than him. Few men have successfully escaped implication in motivating rage and advancing prejudice than Sharpton. Few men have personally set back integration of Americans with extraordinary achievement. He does indeed own his success.
crack: "I'll take Al Sharpton's sense of ethics, over America's, any day. His are fathomable"
Why?
You've already stated flatly that you don't care about black girls getting kidnapped, raped and sold into slavery.
But you do care about false charges of rape and kidnapping?
You keep using this word fathomable.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Of course, "fathomability" is now officially racist.
Crack
Grab a copy of today's Wall Stree Journal and read the article by James L. Riley. "How not to help Black Americans"
He repudiates your every thought. Without a single sord in all caps.
Michael,
I don't have a subscription, but I saw this:
The concept of historic reparation grows out of man's need to impose a degree of justice on the world that simply does not exist," writes Shelby Steele in "The Content of Our Character." "Blacks cannot be repaid for the injustice done to the race, but we can be corrupted by society's guilt gestures of repayment."
This is pitting the great against the good - whites can't repay the whole debt (which they acknowledge) so they say to pay nothing.
It's a bullshit argument you wouldn't let your own kids run on you,...
Good thing Crack doesn't belong to any cult. Could you imagine what kinds of unhinged things he would be writing?
Hey One Track Crack ™, Resist we much. Carry on with the struggle my brother, carry on!
Zedediah Grimm,
"Hey One Track Crack ™, Resist we much. Carry on with the struggle my brother, carry on!"
Reparations was the subject of The Colbert Report yesterday.
I love how whites - being white and stupid - think it's just me.
The Civil Rights MOVEMENT will bury you,...
I've got a new meme:
WHITES THINK THEY KNOW SO MUCH
I'ma deploy it whenever y'all say something stupid, because you're white with first class educations, and should know better.
Enjoy,...
"The Civil Rights MOVEMENT will bury you"
We have heard that one before, "we will bury you, we will bury you...." as Kruschev pounded the podium with a shoe. Turns out that it didn't work out that way.
If you are referring to the obvious fact that it will outlive us. I have no doubt, since race hustling provides a good living for a lot of people who couldn't be otherwise employed so profitably.
How can somebody as inarticulate as Sharpton, for example, have a talk show?
tim in vermont,
"How can somebody as inarticulate as Sharpton, for example, have a talk show?"
I don't know - must be race hustling. How can rap - which whites uniformly declared was "not music" - become the world's dominant art form?
BTW - when whites were wrongly declaring everything they can't/don't do as invalid, is that race hustling? It has to be.
Ha! Whites are even bad at that,...
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