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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]branford
(4,462 posts)I will not presume to tell the Black community who they should follow or why. You inquire if the Black community is "ignorant" to follow him. Why they follow him is irrelevant, and I will not seek to read anyone's mind. Just because some (although certainly not all, as the Quinnipiac poll demonstrates) Blacks consider him a leader, it does not grant him trust or respect among anyone else.
Sharpton has a decades long, very public and quite notorious history involving a number of scandals, some of which are connected with actual loss of life (notably Jews). You or others are free to ignore or excuse these events for "whatever reasons" you choose, but to handwave them away as if they did not happen or are of no consequence, is ludicrous and insulting. Let me ask you, are you claiming that the clear majority (and increasing) number of people who disapprove of Sharpton are "ignorant or something?"
Many of his defenders, and even some his allies and current employers on MSNBC, at least acknowledge his "problematic" past, but defend him by claiming he's now mellowed or matured. You, on the other hand, outrageously pretend that his skeletons essentially don't even exist.