Before I write this article, I want to share a little history about Al Sharpton. Some people may be too young to remember this or may have simply forgotten.<\/p>\n
In July 2019 Newsweek<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n Al Sharpton’s controversial support of a woman who lied about being raped by a gang of white men in the 1980s has resurfaced amid the civil rights activist’s ongoing feud with President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1987, 15-year-old Tawana Brawley claimed she’d been abducted and raped by a group of white men in Dutchess County, New York. Brawley, who is African American, was found by police with the letters “KKK” written on her chest and a racial epithet written on her stomach. She told her lawyers that two of the assailants were law enforcement officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n Reverend Sharpton took up Brawley’s case early on, and became one of her most outspoken supporters. Sharpton called then-Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and accused state officials of being complicit in the crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n But the incident turned out to be a hoax: After seven months of investigation, including over 6,000 pages of testimony by 180 witnesses, a grand jury found that Brawley had lied about the attack. Six months after the trial, he former boyfriend told reporters she invented the allegations to avoid being punished for running away from home.<\/strong><\/p>\n After the scandal died down, Sharpton reinvented himself as a more mainstream civil rights activist. He founded the National Action Network, which is a civil rights organization in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n Asked about the Brawley incident in 2011, Sharpton told 60 Minutes,<\/em> “whatever happened, you’re dealing with a minor who was missing four days. So it’s clear that something wrong happened.”<\/strong><\/p>\n It amazes me that Al Sharpton still has any credibility at all. He now hosts MSNBC’s PoliticsNation.<\/p>\n The U.S. Sun<\/a> recently reported:<\/p>\n LONGTIME civil rights activist Al Sharpton has accused President Donald Trump of “trying to make Black Lives Matter look like ‘hoodlums and thugs.'”<\/strong><\/p>\n The 65-year-old host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation denounced the president on Thursday afternoon as he pointed out the differences between Joe Biden and Trump’s visits to Kenosha, Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article notes:<\/p>\n Sharpton slammed the president for “projecting those that are violent” and said “he tries to act like Black Lives Matter and Antifa is the same thing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Antifa is the left-wing political protest movement that gained prominence after the white supremacist Unite the Right rally that took place in Charlottesville,\u00a0Virginia<\/a>, in 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Black Lives Matter movement<\/a> is the civil rights group that came about in response to extreme police brutality.<\/strong><\/p>\n “We had this big March on Saturday, tens of thousands of people, not one arrest, no violence, all of the families there, you didn\u2019t hear one tweet from the president,\u201d Sharpton said on MSNBC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c[Trump] never mentioned it. Because he cannot afford to deal with it when he can\u2019t make you look like hoodlums and thugs.<\/strong><\/p>\n “How do you have a mass march of that size, less than a mile from where he was at and he never tweets one thing about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n “Because he wants to project us as violent and out of control when we\u2019re not that and that\u2019s what Joe Biden showed today by going to a family and going to church, talking to people. That\u2019s who we are.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Black Lives Matter has a website. This is the link<\/a> to what they believe.<\/p>\n Included in their beliefs:<\/p>\n We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and \u201cvillages\u201d that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.<\/strong><\/p>\n We foster a queer\u2010affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s\/he or they disclose otherwise).<\/strong><\/p>\n The nuclear family is the foundation of western civilization. This is not a peaceful group. President Trump’s description of Black Lives Matter is much more accurate than Al Sharpton’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I write this article, I want to share a little history about Al Sharpton. Some people may be too young to remember this or may have simply forgotten. In July 2019 Newsweek reported the following: Al Sharpton’s controversial support … Continue reading