OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
5:32 PM – Thursday, December 5, 2024
The National Black Church Initiative calls for: MSNBC It's to investigate payments made by Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign to a group run by controversial network host Al Sharpton.
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Sharpton is a social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and media personality. He is also the founder of. National Action Network Civil rights organizations.
Sharpton has long been criticized by critics for his “anti-Semitic” and “anti-white racist comments.”
“The white people were in the cave while we were there. [Black people] was building an empire. …We built the pyramids before Donald Trump knew what architecture was. …We were teaching philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and the Greek homos figured it out,” Sharpton previously said. “So [if] Cracker comes and says, “Well, my mother and father's blood goes back to the Mayflowers.” It's best to keep your pockets secure. That's nothing to be proud of. In other words, their ancestors were fraudsters. ”
In the late 1980s, Mr. Sharpton first became involved in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case, alleging that a white gang, including Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney Stephen Pagones, kidnapped and sexually assaulted a black teenage girl. It became a hot topic. Mr. Sharpton publicly denounced Mr. Pagones and accused law enforcement of a “racist cover-up,” without providing evidence. A grand jury later found that the incident had never occurred and cleared Pagones of all charges in 1988. But Pagones' career as a prosecutor was over, he and his family received constant death threats, and the stress caused the breakdown of his marriage. In 1998, Pagones defeated Sharpton in a defamation suit, but Sharpton refused to pay $65,000 in damages, claiming he didn't have the money. washington examiner Reported.
In 1991, Sharpton incited violence after a Jewish driver accidentally ran over a 7-year-old black boy named Gavin Cato, sparking street protests and riots. I supported you. The riot included the chant, “No justice, no peace!” and “Kill the Jews!”
Ephraim Lipkind, a former Hasidic resident who lived in Crown Heights at the time, testified that Sharpton began inciting the crowd and inciting further violence.
“Then a guy named Al Sharpton famously came and told us to kill the Jews twice on Tuesday night. When we heard his voice, he started charging across the street into Utica. Ta.”
At the time, Sharpton said of the incident: “The world will say he died in an accident… It is an accident to allow an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown Heights. Tell me about your business with diamond merchants.”
Fast forward to 2024.
NBCI, which calls itself the Coalition of Black Churches, said in a Facebook post that the Kamala Harris campaign really paid Sharpton so the Democratic candidate could take simple “softball” questions in the October election. I further questioned whether he had paid for it. MSNBC Interview with Mr. Sharpton.
“Pastor. Because Sharpton does not have a journalism degree, he is hurting the careers of black men and women who have more experience and journalistic integrity,” their post reads. . “The National Black Church Initiative is calling on MSNBC to launch an investigation into donations and payments made by the Harris campaign.”
According to Federal Election Commission RecordsSeptember 5ththHarris for President first sent $250,000 to Sharpton's group, the National Action Network. Furthermore, on October 1stcentthe campaign sent another identical donation, totaling $500,000 in funds to his organization.
And on October 20ththMr. Sharpton conducted an interview in question with the current vice president.
“This payment raises questions about the show’s host, Reverend Sharpton. MSNBC Journalism Ethics,” NBCI wrote. “Do I have to pay Al Sharpton through donations to his organization in order to appear on his show or get a favorable interview?”
NBCI also questioned exactly why the Harris campaign donated $500,000 to the National Action Network and whether Mr. Sharpton received the money. According to the coalition government, one of its leaders appears to be selling “our votes” to “President Harris,” and the coalition government has expressed great concern about this.
“Pastor. Mr. Sharpton is loved and admired by many in our Union, but that doesn't mean he violates serious moral and journalistic ethics in making this payment and donation to the National Action Network.” It undermines the fact that we are facing a crisis,” said NBCI Chairman Anthony Evans. “We will continue to pray for him.”
MSNBC later claimed to the outlet washington free beaconrevealed last month's payments, but the network was not aware of them. NBCI noted that there are still “many questions to answer.”
“For many pastors, this type of behavior would cast a moral stain on the integrity of the black church. Reverend Al Sharpton is committed to fully disclosing the nature, reason, and purpose of the $500,000. There is a need,” the post reads. “Where are the receipts? And did Reverend Sharpton receive any funds, and if so, what and for what purpose?”
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