A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
The fact that Al Sharpton is the administration’s “made man” tells us a great deal about what President Obama’s team really thinks about Black people. The White House seems drawn to Sharpton’s amorality and infinite capacity for corruption – his usefulness as pit bull and King Rat.
Al Sharpton: King Rat
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
“Everything he does is an act of prostitution.”
Al Sharpton is a crook who is always for sale. This is not an opinion, but a fact that is known in great detail to scores of movement activists whose paths have intersected with this talented but totally amoral hustler over the past 40 years. I personally watched him sell out the campaign to elect Jersey City, New Jersey’s first Black mayor
This was only one of countless career transactions by a man whose self-proclaimed role models are the entertainer James Brown and the boxing racketeer Don King. Sharpton has sold out Black New York City many times over through his well-compensated service to billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sold out Black children and the institution of public education in a bizarre multi-city, salt-and-pepper tour Sharpton-Gingrich traveling show
MSNBC, the corporate megaphone for the Democratic Party brand, provides Sharpton the kind of media platform that substitutes for independent Black leadership in the 21st century. Rev. Al is what he always wanted to be: a celebrity locked in the embrace of the rich and powerful.
“Top of the political garbage heap.”
Sharpton will reach what will probably be the pinnacle of his phenomenally corrupt career on Friday, in New York, when the annual convention destabilization of Africa Race to the Bottom too big to jail charge or trial disenfranchised billions in food stamp benefits
In the presence of such monstrous corruption, recent confirmation that Sharpton was an informant rat on Black radicals
For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to Black Agenda Report.com.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com .
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