Barack Obama’s deliberate, willful, and racist contempt for white people and especially Jews
Israpundit.com
by Bill Levinson
The front page feature of today’s Wall Street Journal, “Obama’s New Partner: Al Sharpton,” tells us everything we need to know about Barack Obama’s character, integrity, and fitness for public office. Al Sharpton has no more place in or near the Oval Office than David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan or Tom Metzger of the White Aryan Resistance. Obama’s decision to partner with this individual is, however, totally consistent with the racist content in Dreams From My Father, membership in a racist (as shown by its standing ovation for Michael Pfleger’s “There were a whole lot of white people crying”) church, Jeremiah Wright’s blood libels of both the United States and Israel, and 9/11 denier Van Jones.
Al Sharpton in the Oval Office
It is already well known that Obama (and Hillary Clinton, and adulterer John Edwards) appeared at the 2007 meeting of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network: arguably a hate group like the Ku Klux Klan or White Aryan Resistance as shown by its conduct at Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish owned store in Harlem. Just as the Klan once threatened Black people who moved into white neighborhoods, or opened businesses in white neighborhoods, the National Action Network, under Al Sharpton’s leadership and supervision, screamed racial epithets and even threatened to burn the store down. A deranged individual who acted on the NAN’s hate speech later did set the store on fire, much like a lone wolf white supremacist acting on verbal sewage from the likes of Duke or Metzger.
Wikipedia offers the following definitions of hate organizations and hate speech.
- A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates physical or verbal aggression toward or refusal to interact with persons on the basis of those persons’ possession and/or exhibition of a certain characteristic.
…Dr. Ehud Sprinzak, an expert on terrorism and hate crimes, argues that verbal violence is “the use of extreme language against an individual or a group that either implies a direct threat that physical force will be used against them, or is seen as an indirect call for others to use it.” Sprinzak argues that verbal violence is often a substitute for real violence, and that the verbalization of hate has the potential to incite people who are incapable of distinguishing between real and verbal violence to engage in actual violence.
From where we sit, the National Action Network qualifies as a hate group every bit as repugnant as the Klan and White Aryan Resistance, and its conduct at Freddy’s Fashion Mart meets the above definition of hate speech. In addition, a deranged lone actor heeded the NAN’s “indirect call for others to use [physical force]” on the “greedy Jew bastard” and “white interloper”–the latter from Sharpton himself.
Now let us take a look at the National Action Network’s behavior outside Freddy’s Fashion Mart in 1995.
It would have taken no great effort for the reporters covering the Apollo debate to have walked across 125th Street from the theater to visit Freddy’s Fashion Mart, where in 1995 eight people died in a murderous rampage inspired by Mr. Sharpton. …But at Freddy’s, Mr. Sharpton was even more malevolent. He turned a landlord-tenant dispute between the Jewish owner of Freddy’s and a black subtenant into a theater of hatred. Picketers from Mr. Sharpton’s National Action Network, sometimes joined by “the Rev.” himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about “bloodsucking Jews” and “Jew bastards” and threatening to burn the building down. After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton’s words about ousting the “white interloper” to heart. He ran into the store shouting, “It’s on!” He shot and wounded three whites and a Pakistani, whom he apparently mistook for a Jew. Then he set the fire, which killed five Hispanics, one Guyanese and one African-American–a security guard whom protesters had taunted as a “cracker lover.” Smith then fatally shot himself.
To put this another way, the National Action Network acted toward Freddy’s Fashion Mart the way the Ku Klux Klan once acted toward Black-owned businesses that moved into the “wrong” neighborhoods: racist hate speech, threats to burn the business down, and actual firebombings by deranged individuals who acted on the Klan’s hate speech.
Al Sharpton’s and the National Action Network’s hate speech did not involve Freddy’s business practices; statements like “Freddy’s Fashion Mart is Unfair,” whether true or false, are not hate speech. Phrases like “Jew bastards,” “bloodsucking Jews,” “white interlopers,” “cracker lovers,” and “don’t give the Jew a dime” are hate speech, and hate speech is a characteristic of hate organizations. “Don’t give the Jew a dime” seems to fulfill the definition “refusal to interact with persons on the basis of those persons’ possession and/or exhibition of a certain characteristic” perfectly. Next we have:
- The Nine Lives of Al Sharpton By: John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, April 12, 2007
In 1995, Sharpton led his National Action Network in an ugly boycott against Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned business in Harlem, New York. The boycott started when Freddy’s owners announced that because they wanted to expand their own business, they would no longer sublet part of their store to a black-owned record shop. The street leader of the boycott, Morris Powell, was the head of Sharpton’s “Buy Black” Committee. Repeatedly referring to the Jewish proprietors of Freddy’s as “crackers,” Powell and his fellow protesters menacingly told passersby, “Keep [going] right on past Freddy’s, he’s one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don’t give the Jew a dime.”
We also note that, unlike former segregationists George Wallace and Strom Thurmond, and former Klansman Robert Byrd, Al Sharpton has never, to the best of our knowledge, apologized for or retracted his statements and actions. He has never, to the best of our knowledge, repudiated the NAN’s actions at Freddy’s Fashion Mart, nor has he tried to make things right with the store’s owner and the families of the seven employees who may have died as an indirect result of his inflammatory hate speech and that of the persons under his leadership and supervision. It also took a long time to collect the defamation judgment against him for his actions in the Tawana Brawley scandal, and there is also the matter of his statement “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house” during the Crown Heights riots. Sharpton must therefore continue to be regarded as a racist and anti-Semite, the declared enemy of Caucasians in general and Jews in particular, and Barack Obama has just empowered this hate monger by associating him openly with the office of the President of the United States.
Barack Obama has never understood that he must be President for all Americans, not just the minority of African-Americans who are to Black people what skinheads and the Ku Klux Klan are to white people. Barack Obama cannot associate openly with somebody like Al Sharpton and be President for white people, decent Black people, and Jews, any more than a politician can associate with the Klan and claim to serve African-Americans. Barack Obama’s decision to partner with Al Sharpton shows that he is totally lacking in common sense, judgment, common decency, or all three, and this is but the latest occasion on which he has turned the highest office in the United States into a sick joke, a freak sideshow that would embarrass any self-respecting carnival or circus.
