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You Can Call Him Al!

Don’t call it a comeback.  I’m hearing that the Rev. Al Sharpton is reportedly coming back to town on September 17th.  Sources say Sharpton will make an appearance at Garfield Park.

The Baptist Ministers Alliance is allegedly bringing Sharpton to town.  Sharpton was paid to come to Indianapolis last year to protest the Brandon Johnson police beating.   An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice revealed there was not enough evidence to show that IMPD violated Johnson’s civil rights.  A lawsuit against the department is still pending.

Draw your own conclusions.

  • G Square

    Maybe Rev. Al is coming to support the takeover of IPS schools or to condemn the remarks made by Andre Carson.  I’m sure he would come to do these good works for free but a man’s got expenses.  Reminds me of the scene in A Time to Kill between the pastor and the NAACP representatives.  Some things never seem to change.

  • Anonymous

    If you pay someone for their opinion, I ask you, is it still THEIR opinion?

  • Ibviral

    Abdul, is the same person paying Al that paid him the last time?

  • pascal

    We are not purchasing this Black man, we are merely renting a racist.  It is just what Indianapolis needs, more racism even if the racist is a former Democrat candidate for President, or, a sitting Congressman.  MLK’S vision is dead to them, and, even the SC says one may validly take skin coloration as the sine qua non of a person wishing to attend the University of Michigan. 

  • guest

    Where is the Baptist Ministers Association condemnation of Carson’s racists rants.

  • Nick

    It time for the old school black leadership to be replaced with younger educated people who have the message of self empowerment, personal responsibility, strong families, unlike Sharpon & Jackson which draw power from defending bad behavior, accepting failure, feeding upon race conflict, and prey upon the people they supposedly are trying to help.

    They wont accept that the game has changed and they are losing ground to others by clinging to victimhood and race as a resume builder.

    There is no better time then now!

  • Nick

    You must listen to this starting at the 25:00 point.

    President Barack Obama addresses the 2009 NAACP Convention

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6EAaoFNno

  • Nick

    Transcript of 2009 Obama NAACP Speech:

    “Government programs alone won’t get our children to the Promised Land.
    We need a new mind set, a new set of attitudes — because one of the
    most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we’ve
    internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have
    come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

    We’ve got to say to our children, yes, if you’re African American, the
    odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in
    a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a
    wealthy suburb does not have to face. But that’s not a reason to get
    bad grades — (applause) — that’s not a reason to cut class —
    (applause) — that’s not a reason to give up on your education and drop
    out of school. (Applause.) No one has written your destiny for you.
    Your destiny is in your hands — you cannot forget that. That’s what we
    have to teach all of our children. No excuses. (Applause.) No
    excuses.

    You get that education, all those hardships will just make you stronger, better able to compete. Yes we can. (Applause.)

    To parents — to parents, we can’t tell our kids to do well in school
    and then fail to support them when they get home. (Applause.) You
    can’t just contract out parenting. For our kids to excel, we have to
    accept our responsibility to help them learn. That means putting away
    the Xbox — (applause) — putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour.
    (Applause.) It means attending those parent-teacher conferences and
    reading to our children and helping them with their homework.
    (Applause.)

    And by the way, it means we need to be there for our neighbor’s sons and
    daughters. (Applause.) We need to go back to the time, back to the
    day when we parents saw somebody, saw some kid fooling around and — it
    wasn’t your child, but they’ll whup you anyway. (Laughter and
    applause.) Or at least they’ll tell your parents — the parents will.
    You know. (Laughter.) That’s the meaning of community. That’s how we
    can reclaim the strength and the determination and the hopefulness that
    helped us come so far; helped us make a way out of no way.

    It also means pushing our children to set their sights a little bit
    higher. They might think they’ve got a pretty good jump shot or a
    pretty good flow, but our kids can’t all aspire to be LeBron or Lil
    Wayne. (Applause.) I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers
    — (applause) — doctors and teachers — (applause) — not just ballers
    and rappers. I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court Justice.
    (Applause.) I want them aspiring to be the President of the United
    States of America. (Applause.)

    I want their horizons to be limitless. I don’t — don’t tell them they
    can’t do something. Don’t feed our children with a sense of — that
    somehow because of their race that they cannot achieve.

    Yes, government must be a force for opportunity. Yes, government must
    be a force for equality. But ultimately, if we are to be true to our
    past, then we also have to seize our own future, each and every day.

    And that’s what the NAACP is all about. The NAACP was not founded in
    search of a handout. The NAACP was not founded in search of favors.
    The NAACP was founded on a firm notion of justice; to cash the
    promissory note of America that says all of our children, all God’s
    children, deserve a fair chance in the race of life.”

  • Rico

    The NAACP gave away it’s last remaining shred of credibility when it awarded a lying, cheating, philandering president an image award.

  • Rico

    its

  • Pascal

    No sense of history at all.  The NAACP was,until sometime in the 1960′s, a captive organization, owned and operated by other than Blacks.  It is funny that our media folks have never tumbled to the historical facts.  The NAACP nag died years ago and there is no point in trying to flog its myths. 

  • Pascal

    Darn!  I was hoping for an it’s so TA could leap into action to astound us all with his superlative grasp of grammar. 

  • pascal

    Another problem with government schooling is that they are government schools and they lie thru their teeth. It would be politically incorrect in a government school to assign Fyodor Dostoyevsky in an American History class. His Reconstruction, written in 1877 would be a good read for modern day “scholars” brought up on pablum history. The more intellectual sorts of government school graduates could peruse The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual-circa 1967 by Harold Cruse. Murray Freidman also has some decent works.

  • Think Again

    It’s OK.  Idiocy is self-evident.

  • Turk182

    Humm, more race baited hatred, in the name of racism!
    I am sick of this, our great country is being led down a slippery slope in which we might not survive.
    Is this what President Obama wants to give him the Marshall Law that will limit our freedoms?
    The hate and division has to stop!
    I hear this everyday, sooner or later, people will think this trash talk is the truth, and violence will occur all thru our great country!

  • Scooter

    BIG AL!!!  Society’s Pal !!!

    Cripes…. lets get a couple of Nazi’s or skinheads in town to  provide ‘fair & balanced’ representation.

    Sheesh.

  • Rico

    So is pseudo-intellect.

  • Rico

    Al’s worse than a Nazi.  And he claims to be a man of the cloth.  I hope he gets bit by a rabid squirrel in Garfield Park.

  • Wilson46201

    in 1968 Gene Pulliam (owner of the Indpls Star) called Dr. King “that rabble-rousing coon” — nowadays more temperate language is used about civil rights leaders …

  • Wilson46201

    there you go again with your death-wishes on a human being — you certainly are a lousy “pro-life” exponent! find a pastor or a psychiatrist and get some guidance…

  • Rico

    Ever heard of rabies shots, A-hole?
     It’s dinner time.  Shouldn’t you be curling up with a leftover TV dinner in a dumpster about now?

  • Dave

    Ahhh!  Don’t let the blog title ruin a good Simon tune & CC video; just because Sharpton’s a “leader” in the hatriot movement…

  • Rico

    Name one ‘civil rights leader’ today (with a straight face).

  • Rico

    Of course he’d find a way to blame it on whitey.

  • Rico

    And I think you’re being a bit generous to Al by calling him a human being.

  • Dave

    Your question is one of convention tied to yesterday’s establishment.  

    The Tea Party is today’s civil rights leader.

  • Ibviral

    Wilson is hoping that his brother in socialism the Rev Sharpton will make an honorary black man when he visits our city

  • Wilson46201

    that already happened many years ago when the Rev. Andrew J. Brown publicly declared me to be so during the Jesse Jackson for President campaign in 1984 — it was quite an honor !

  • Ibviral

    There ya go again Wilson. Wishing you could play the race card. Its the one card you will never be able to play.

    Lord knows you’ve played every other card

  • Rico

    What a sad thing to be so dissatisfied with how God made you. 

    And how honored you must feel to be ‘publicly declared’ black during a race pimp’s campaign.

  • Rico

    Excellent point, Dave.  Yet they are painted as violent, racist, revolutionaries.  Ahhh the irony………

  • Me

    Sharpton is probably coming to town to talk to Ballard and Straub.  After all Ballard and Straub agree with Sharpton that the Police, the FOP, the Merit Board and the FBI are all wrong.  Those three guys would have the Police let criminals go that assault the Police or run from them.

  • Me

    Maybe Sharpton is coming to endorse Straub’s new Police pursuit policy.  I’m sure Sharpton and Straub will agree to let criminals simply drive away from or to a crime without the inconvenience of stopping for the Police.  Sharpton, Straub and Ballard can then talk about making sure the Police don’t cause minor injuries to sweet little angels like Brandon Johnson.

  • Turk182

    Wilson needs to read a little history from Germany.
    He reminds me of the Brownshirts, doing the dirty work for Hitler, then  their rewards from Adolf was death!

  • Guest

    Nick and others,  you can now copy the url from the time spot you want others to see.  Here is the link at 24:59  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6EAaoFNno&feature=player_detailpage#t=1499s

  • Anonymous

    Did Al ever pay the slander/defamation judgement obtained against him by the cops in the Tawanna [sp?] Brawley case? A fair question to ask, eh?

  • pascal

    In 1968?  Are MLK’s records still sealed by court order for 50 years after his death….via work by the vile Kennedy? Hey, the cold war is over…we could unseal all those records with no harm at all.

  • pascal

    That ain’t paint.  Them there’s the Andre Carsons of the underworld, of the non intellect, of the sound bite, of first class fools.

  • pascal

    Not to my knowledge.  That is why no one ever gives him money. But, I guess you could ask the racists POS and expect from him another lie.  Last I heard he was a deadbeat scofflaw which makes whoever invited him here sorta accomplices, does it not?  Ministers ought to send their blood money to pay off this POS’s debts instead of being money launderers?

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