Thursday, December 25, 2014

Taki of Taki's Magazine: Al Sharpton Is at It Again - "Race hustlers aside, the media have been the real enablers of hoodwinking the African-American community, along with our cowardly political elites." [Yes, but where in the world are Africans rallying behind a Black George Washington? Hoodwinked? Or demanding to be led by people like Sharpton?]

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Al Sharpton Is at It Again

If I were a North Korean leader, or even an ISIS head chopper, I’d be reveling in the fact that a black American former basketball star spoke more plainly about race in America than any member of our political class or media.
Charles Barkley doesn’t mince his words. Many of his fellow blacks were not best pleased when he told young African-Americans a while ago to forget about basketball and stay in school. After Ferguson, Barkley did not join the race hustlers, liberal media, and the rest of the self-promoters inciting violence. Instead he said in a radio interview that there was no excuse to be out there burning cars and burning down people’s businesses. Bravo, Barkley, says Taki; here’s a great athlete who tells it like it is. He went on to point out that if it weren’t for the cops, “we would be living in the wild, wild West in our neighborhoods.”
Compare Barkley with the “Rev.” Al Sharpton ...