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Is Al Sharpton Jealous Of Barack Obama?
Posted by Brian
Over a month ago I remember watching CNN about the Presidential Race and they had several Black Leaders on the show discussing how they were not supporting Barack Obama or were not going to support him. At the time, I just thought it was part of political strategy and that they would come around. Now I am not so sure.
Recently, Al Sharpton has continued to rip Barack Obama. Sharpton said:
“Obama never did anything for the community, never worked with anybody from the community, that nobody knows the people around him, that he’s a candidate driven by white leadership,”
Some suspect that Al Sharpton wanted to run for waste his time with the Presidential campaign in 2008. Nobody voted for him before and less would now.
People close to Sharpton say, “It’s driving Al crazy that Obama is as impressive and popular as he is, and he’s not happy about it. Sharpton is just terrified of being overshadowed by someone of Obama’s class and character.”
Too Late.
I will not sit here and rip Sharpton, but he needs to stop trippin. How can Sharpton claim to have African-American interests at heart and then not support the best candidate we have had. He must put his ego aside and do what is right.
Am I missing something or is Al trippin?
There is a good discussion about Barack Obama’s candidacy on a previous post here.
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Can anyone say H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y? I could expand on this whole issue, but as I’m statring to see, it would require giving a history lesson, cause most people just don’t know the history and mindset of this country. Well, to put it as plainly as I can–you figure out the mindset of a country based upon what it was founded upon. Power-Greed-Control, oh yeah, and I almost forgot–freedom. That last one is laughable. So I said all that to say this in response to Sharpton’s attacks– The mindset of this American culture has infected everyone. Racsim, hatred, discrimination have become very successful at seperating a people whose focus should all be in the same direction. Yet greed, power, money, and social status take precedence today, just as it did when this country was founded. I said it in a previous posting, but the point bears repeating. Black men hating their women, women hating their men, black leaders willing to cut each others throats in order to stay “on top”, black men killing each other in the streets, is all a result of one system of power, insidiously rationing out “freedom” (by way of economic and social ascendency) ever so carefully, to have us all acting like a bunch of crabs in a barrel. That’s what I say in reference to Sharpton, and other black political leaders who’ve been speaking against Obama–like South Carolina Senator’s Ford and Jackson. Ford’s remarks about why he would not support Obama only support what I said about my whole crabs in a barrel theory. The sad thing is, the things I’m saying aren’t even that hard to see and people still don’t want to believe the truth.
Al not-so-Sharp-ton needs his hair cut!
He definitely drank the haterade.
I remember when he felt the same way about Jesse Jackson.
Now, that Jackson has FINALLY endoresed Obama, let’s see what Al does.
By the way, would somebody tell him that James Brown is dead so he can get rid of that ridiculous perm?!
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