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In reply to the discussion: Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees Read more: [View all]MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Which pretty much explains your visceral reaction to him and willingness to redirect the conversation to about him alone when I simply expanded the scope of the conversation to a bigger picture. But the thing about him being identified as a leadership figure in the black community, given that reaction especially by whites, it's a neat way to cage whatever black activism is happening at the time. Today, the Oscars, yesterday, Trayvon Martin, tomorrow, who knows? But just as long as Sharpton is used as a lightning rod, those who really don't want to address those issues can point at him and call him the bad guy.
Lot's of times these same people would label him a "race hustler" or some such epithet. I credit you for at least NOT taking it that far.
But for the fifteenth time, this issue is way bigger than Sharpton's involvement, what ever it may be.
Too bad that you can't seem to get to that point... Which was exactly my point in the post which you bothered to engage in the first place.