4.27.2008

Awwwww....someone feels left out.

The bitter Democratic primary has had many victims: the Obamessiah's transcendence is gone, Bill Clinton's legacy (whatever was left of it) has been badly damaged, and Democratic voters who are both female and African-American have had to decide if they are more "African-American" or more "woman" (identity politics is a harsh mistress). However, the greatest victim of all is someone who's had to watch from the sidelines, Al Sharpton.

Life's been hard on ol' Al. The cameras are all focused on Barack and Hillary. What choice does a man have, but to go race-baiting in New York City:
Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.

"We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians," Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. "This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell."

Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell - a black man - and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.

The rally at Sharpton's office was followed by a 20-block march down Malcolm X Boulevard and then across 125th Street, Harlem's main business thoroughfare, where some bystanders yelled out "Kill the police!"
It should be noted that 2 of the 3 officers charged in the shootings were black. Why let facts get in the way of The Narrative?

Exit question: Why do people call him "Rev." Al Sharpton? When was he last time he lead a church or preached, for that matter?

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