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F*** Al Sharpton! Ferguson protesters chanted. Unreceptive to Al Shartpons civil rights advocacy, young activists have been shrugging off the reverend as a parasite; a spotlight-hungry leech on the #BlackLivesMatter movement. And Sharpton isnothaving it,CapitalNewYorkreports.

How you going to be more mad at folk that are marching for the same cause then you are against the folks yall are marching against? Dont you see a trick in there? Sharpton said on Wednesday at theHarlem office of the National Action Network.

Sharpton added that they whomever they are are misguiding the young activists to focus on him when protesters should be funneling their energies to revamping the system:

They got you arguing about who going to lead a marchthe old or the youngwhen they cutting up the city budget. You cant be that stupid! You more worried about who going to lead [National Action Network] than who going to be the governor with a multi-billion dollar budget that you got to pay state tax in. You cant be that stupid.

Sharptonwent on to say that younger civil rights activists in the Ferguson movement are being pimped:

[Younger activists]were told, Your problem is Al Sharpton and the other guys. Anytime you have movements, whether its in Ferguson, whether its in New York, whether its in Denver, wherever it is, when they got you more angry at your parents then they got you at the vote youre supposed to be out there for, youre being tricked and youre trying to turn the community into tricks. And they are pimping you, to do the Willie Lynch [reference to a colonial-era slave owner] in our community.

Using mommy and daddy as an analogous reference to older activists in the movement, Sharpton insinuated that the younger generation is just yipping and yapping when they should be, instead, attentive to their political environment:

Youre busy arguing with your mommy and daddy when they re-electing a mayor, and re-electing a prosecutor, he said. Its the disconnect that is the strategy to break the movement. And they play on your ego. Oh, you young and hip, youre full of fire. Youre the new face. All the stuff that they know will titillate your ears. Thats what a pimp says to a ho.

Josmar Trujillo, a young protester and founder of New Yorkers Against Bratton, responded to Sharptons speech: To paternalistically admonish younger, more dynamic leaders by comparing them to hos is just another self-serving attempt to squash dissent as he wrestles for control of a movement thats leaving him behind, he toldCAP.

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You Cant Be That Stupid! Rev. Al Sharpton Lashes Out At Young Activists Who Denounce Him