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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Sharpton's latest shakedown

  I have a relative whose lower lip is in perpetual pout mode. Why did life treat me this way. I got screwed. I want more. Why is everyone against me. Give me something free.
  This, to me, describes the perpetual grievancemonger Al Sharpton, who is a regular visitor and advisor at the White House. (Yes, THAT Al Sharpton who has a habit of trumping up false claims against people and who incites riots.)
 Now, it appears, Sharpton (a reverend since he was 9 years old), no stranger to controversy or loan sharks, is after Apple, a globally successful American company.
  Sharpton of the bouffant hairdo wants more Apple appeals to black people and more influence with Apple, as if black people are not one with the American people.
  Some sports dork who interviewed racist Sharpton wants more Facebook & Twitter ads to black people:
 They have no African-American directors in the company. They do little to no spending in African-American media.
   Um,  yeah. No. 
  The "free" market shouldn't work that way, although that's undoubtedly what old Al wants to interrupt. He doesn't like "free" markets unless it means something "free" for old Al, who makes his living accepting free clothes, free membership to exclusive clubs, free money and free kickbacks, "free" being a relative term to Sharpton.
  See, the way this works, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson will approach a company, complaining loudly that said company doesn't acknowledge/employ/give back anything to the black community.
  Then when the company, whose deep pockets would rather avoid a lawsuit than bad PR, caves to the likes of Sharpton, who claims something about "them Greek homos" and that "white folks was in caves when we was building empires," he moves in for the dollar kill.
  Thus Sharpton has acquired over 50 companies' blessings to his wardrobe and family legacy. How does he "juggle" it all? NPR sympathetically explains.
  It seems like whenever Sharpton needs more cash, all he does is pick a company, go complain to it and wait for the cash to roll in.
  Next, Apple.
  Sharpton complains that, though blacks "spend a lot of money on Apple," Apple gives not back to  Al Sharpton's family estate black people in general (or, as Sharpton puts it so eloquently says, "we buying up all this Apple stuff") . So Newsbusters maliciously reports the truth:
SHARPTON: There are no blacks on 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies' board of directors. Apple, where we spend a lot of money on Apple, they have a new iPhone coming out today, no blacks in board of Apple. We buying up all this Apple stuff and can't get a bite. ... Now today the iPhone comes out. That is of course produced by Apple and Apple is one of those companies, I mean, we do a tremendous amount of business in our community with Apple, yet we're not on their boards and there is no evidence they do a lot of advertising or a lot of contracting in our community, is that correct?
  So expect your iPhone to go up in price, if only .40 apiece for, after all, what's .40 to you when it goes to fattening the "Reverend" Al Sharpton's family estate?
  And that, my friends, is the way all presidential advisors should make a living. 

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