RPT: All of Sharpton #39;s For-Profit Enterprises Failed to Pay Taxes
RPT: All of Sharpton #39;s For-Profit Enterprises Failed to Pay Taxes A new report claims that every for-profit enterprise started by Rev. Al Sharpton has been shut down for failure to pay taxes....
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Mark Levin: Al Sharpton #39;s unpaid taxes
(February 06 2015)
By: American Patriot
Weve been waiting for the issues of race and social justice to reach a boiling point in America, and that time is finally here, Sharpton said, and his audience clapped.
Weve been waiting for an opportunity to lead, and now Im in that position, he said, and they applauded again.
The group was composed of 25 pastors, organizers and community leaders from across the country, all of whom were members of Sharptons National Action Network, and all of whom had traveled to New York in early January at Sharptons request and expense. A summit to discuss and determine our next move, the invitation had read, and they all understood that would mostly mean listening to Sharpton discuss and determine their next move, and they were fine with that. He had always needed an audience had built one on the streets of New York and grown it over four decades, until finally he had become a fixture of the American news cycle. He had a national radio program, a nightly TV show, a nonprofit social justice organization with active chapters in 38 states and a dozen visits each year to the White House. Now he believed the country was facing a racial crisis of unjust policing, and once again the leader of the civil rights movement had called upon himself to respond. The audience had assembled as his muse. Sharpton alone would decide. The next move was his.
We are going to be judged by how we respond in this moment, he told them. What happened in the era of I cant breathe? What happened with Trayvon Martin? I aint getting any more famous. Im in the history books now. Question is, when my moment came, could I get real change? Is my chapter good or bad?
He stood and spoke for an hour until hotel workers arrived with trays of breakfast, and then he waved them out and kept going. His posture was certain and his feet were rooted to the floor. His socks matched his pocket square, which matched his glasses. He felt most himself at the front of the room and always had, ever since his mother built pews in his playroom so he could learn to talk at age 2 to an audience of his sisters dolls. A traveling boy preacher by age 6. Ordained by 9. Organizing voter drives by 12. He had never written out a speech, because he had learned to speak in public before he could read or write. He did his best thinking in front of a crowd, piecing together his thoughts on the fly. It was only when the audience disappeared that he started talking to himself, sometimes second-guessing his effectiveness, asking the same questions during his morning meditations at age 60 that he had begun asking at 25. Am I good enough? Am I more than just a showman? he sometimes wondered.
But now the audience was with him, hanging on his famous, gritty baritone, and he could turn the room dizzy with a joke or hold it still with a long stare. Breakfast turned cold on the buffet table. A scheduled break came and went. He told stories about running for president, meeting Nelson Mandela, befriending Muhammad Ali, getting stabbed by a white supremacist during a march and sitting on stage during President Obamas second inauguration. Sharpton had spent most of his career railing against the American power establishment, but now he was a linchpin of it, expected not only to stir a civil rights movement but also to harness its fracturing parts, not only to accentuate the countrys racial problems but also to solve some of them.
He quoted from his own speeches, eulogies he delivered when Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and when Eric Garner died after being placed in a chokehold by a police officer in New Yorks Staten Island. Enough! he said. We demand lasting change. Body cameras for all police officers, federal oversight of police violence, the demilitarization of local police these were the changes Sharpton wanted in the next months, and these were the goals by which he now expected to be judged.
They say I want publicity? he said. Thats exactly what I want. I want publicity on the issues.
Yes, Rev. Preach.
You think anybody has ever called in Al Sharpton to keep a secret? We come in to shine the light.
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The public life and private doubts of Al Sharpton
In a lengthy profile of the Rev. Al Sharpton on the front page of Sundays Washington Post, reporter Eli Saslow captures the controversial civil rights figure in the midst of an existential crisis.
At 60, Sharpton is at the apex of his decades-long influence, commanding radio and television shows, a robust fundraising operation and a direct line to President Obama. Despite that stature and the endless celebrity perks that seem to accompany it, Sharpton is on the defensive as he confronts a new generation of activists eager to scrap civil rights-era models of activism for new approaches that are faster, flatter and more aggressive.
And yet, between moments of confident posturing, Saslow reveals that Sharptons harshest critic might the reverend himself as he begins to measure his long career against those of the former civil rights heavyweights whom he always aspired to become like.
Am I good enough? he asks at one point. Am I more than just a showman?
Sharpton may not have had answers for those questions, but within hours of the profiles publication, the Internet certainly did. Fox News Channel calledthestory eye-opening and said Sharpton comparing himself to Martin Luther King was like Pee Wee Herman wondering if hell ever be Clint Eastwood.
Meanwhile on the left, a handful of younger activists spent the afternoon attacking Sharpton on Twitter with the hashtag #SharptonSays. Chief among them was DeRay McKesson, a school administrator turned protest organizer in Ferguson, Mo., who highlighted a number of brazen Sharpton quotes for his 65,700 followers.
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Others, such as organizer Charles Wade, said they had respect for Sharpton and his many years of activism, but have grown disinterested in a strategy that relies on a centralized leader chipping away at change incrementally.
Our generation doesnt believe that we have to wait anymore, he told The Post, referring to young activists as members of a microwave generation. Whats happened in Ferguson takes movements years to get without the use of the Internet. Were tired of being spoon-fed a little reform at a time when we want a revolution.
Other Twitter users reacted to statements in the article that they felt were signs of Sharptons outsize ego.
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After Sharpton profile, activists bristle on Twitter
Al Sharpton can swindle and lie...but apparently can #39;t read a teleprompter.
Mike plays a clip from Guy Benson which is a montage of Al Sharpton stumbling and mispronouncing words that he reads from a teleprompter. Mike goes on to sta...
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Al Sharpton can swindle and lie...but apparently can't read a teleprompter. - Video