Mediaboss Marketing

Trust the Rev. Al Sharpton to go for the old bait-and-switch when he thinks he might have to answer for his positions.

Sharpton is now in Britain at the venerable Oxford Union for a Friday night debate on this proposition: This House believes the United States is institutionally Racist.

In some ways, his appearance there is fitting. This is the same place where British students in 1933 so infamously voted for the motion, This house will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.

In accepting the invitation, Sharpton was to argue in favor of the proposition about US racism alongside Black Panther leader Aaron Dixon and liberal blogger Mychal Denzel Smith.

Lining up against the opposition will be Fox News and Breitbart contributor David Webb, conservative commentator Joe Hicks, who are also black, and BBC radio host Charlie Wolf.

But it turns out Sharpton doesnt want a real debate. So instead of taking his place in the traditional format, he has apparently persuaded the Oxford Union to let him give a 20-minute speech.

Though he must take some questions from the audience and the other panelists, it definitely wont be the full-throated debate Oxford is famous for.

Thats our Sharpton.

Once again, he gets it all on his terms. He upends the classic format of the Oxford debate, places himself on a different level from the other participants and minimizes the danger hell be exposed by the other debaters for the charlatan he is: someone who profits from portraying US race relations in the worst possible light.

Pity the Oxford Union went along with it.

View post:
Sharpton goes to Oxford