NY Post: Corporations Pay Al Sharpton To Not Call Them Racist
[su_right_ad]The New York Post leads Sunday with a story about Al Sharpton shaking down companies to avoid being labeled racist.
For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharpton’s National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverend’s supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence.
Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal met with the activist preacher after leaked e-mails showed her making racially charged comments about President Obama. Pascal was under siege after a suspected North Korean cyber attack pressured the studio to cancel its release of “The Interview,” which depicts the assassination of dictator Kim Jong-un.
[su_thin_right_skyscraper_ad]Pascal and her team were said to be “shaking in their boots” and “afraid of the Rev,” The Post reported.
No payments to NAN have been announced, but Sharpton and Pascal agreed to form a “working group” to focus on racial bias in Hollywood…
“Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didn’t come to terms with him. Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog group that has produced a book on Sharpton.
Sharpton has been the beneficiary of largess from blue chip American companies.
Sharpton raised $1 million for NAN at his 60th birthday bash in October, with donations rolling in from unions and a corporate roster of contributors including AT&T, McDonald’s, Verizon and Walmart.
Companies have long gotten in line to pay Sharpton. Macy’s and Pfizer have forked over thousands to NAN, as have General Motors, American Honda and Chrysler.
NAN had repeatedly and without success asked GM for donations for six years beginning in August 2000, a GM spokesman told The Post. Then, in 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the planned closing of an African-American-owned dealership in The Bronx. He picketed outside GM’s Fifth Avenue headquarters. GM wrote checks to NAN for $5,000 in 2007 and another $5,000 in 2008…
Sharpton landed a gig as a $25,000-a-year adviser to Pepsi after he threatened a consumer boycott of the soda company in 1998, saying its ads did not portray African-Americans. He held the position until 2007
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allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:25 am
Who didn’t know?
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:30 am
Where you been ???
allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:31 am
Hey rg! I hadn’t been feeling well for the past few days but am starting to feel somewhat better today. How ya been?
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:33 am
Yeah your timing is exquisite…Monday tomorrow… almost done with my cold. 3 weeks
allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:36 am
I’m so tired of this Monday stuff. Last Monday I was there almost 6 1/2 hrs. So this Monday I’ll show the nurses how to deal with an environment that has no heat over the weekend plus refrig. meds. and how to defrost them. Last Monday I showed them how I could make it run faster…they’ve never worked in a hospital setting.
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:38 am
Tell them to store their speculums in the freezer
allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:40 am
I plan on showing them the “place the bag under the armpit trick for 5 min.”. If I had any hair I would have pulled it out last Monday when I woke up and looked at the clock ;o)
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:44 am
They never appreciate what it is like till they end up on the receiving end…Nothing improves an MD’s bedside manner than a stay in the hospital..
allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:45 am
I used to take great pleasure in having a doctor as a patient..talk about a rude awakening!
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:46 am
broke 10,000 I guess a new home soon
allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:47 am
Xmas week looking at the numbers I was thinking that 7 was just that and that we’d soon have 8 to play in.
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:48 am
See you later …time to annoy the planet…
allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:49 am
See you later and hoping you get better soon.
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:50 am
3 weeks, almost over
allison1050 January 4th, 2015 at 11:51 am
Great take it easy now.
tracey marie January 4th, 2015 at 8:04 pm
look at Allison in a new dress!
allison1050 January 5th, 2015 at 8:24 am
How do you like my new flamenco dress? Morning Tracey hope your holidays were great. Did you do a lot of cooking and baking?
tracey marie January 5th, 2015 at 9:37 am
I did not have to cook much. Sister did everything because I was her guest. I cleaned up. Happy New Year
allison1050 January 5th, 2015 at 7:54 pm
Happy New Year to you also. You’re lucky with your sister doing the cooking. Mine only knows how to eat so needless to say I’m jealous of you you lucky person. 😉
rg9rts January 4th, 2015 at 11:30 am
ROTFLMAO…..Judge the comment by the source….Murdochs local rag
Peter G. January 4th, 2015 at 12:51 pm
Isn’t blackmail illegal?
William January 4th, 2015 at 1:50 pm
“Isn’t blackmail illegal?”
Yes….
But sometimes it’s also funny.
tracey marie January 4th, 2015 at 8:04 pm
The NLPC pac that is the cause of this article is right wing and has attacked and even pressed charges against black elected Dems. Also Hillary , when she was first lady and Soros seem to be a target for them.
Ron Gilbert January 12th, 2015 at 8:50 pm
So you are saying that these claims by the NY Post are untrue because it originated from Right Wing sources?
tracey marie January 12th, 2015 at 8:53 pm
yes, because it is not just rw it is rwnj souce. dedicated to teabagg babble and lies
Ron Gilbert January 15th, 2015 at 9:23 am
Here’s another one for ya. Why is it that Liberals continue to believe that the term “Teabagger” is an insult to Conservatives? The one being t-bagged is the one receiving the insult not the one doing the t-bagging. But such is Liberal logic. It defies reality.
But to reply to your obvious slant, instead of trying to destroy the source, how about you investigate the claims and find out if they are true and then respond with truth instead of complete bias.
OldLefty January 15th, 2015 at 9:58 am
Why is it that Liberals continue to believe that the term “Teabagger” is an insult to Conservatives?
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Because they constantly whine about it.
Ron Gilbert January 15th, 2015 at 10:57 am
Yes, you are correct. Liberals do constantly whine about things.
OldLefty January 15th, 2015 at 11:08 am
Perhaps you need to read it again.
Ron Gilbert January 15th, 2015 at 11:59 am
Here is what you said:
“Why is it that Liberals continue to believe that the term “Teabagger” is an insult to Conservatives?
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Because they constantly whine about it.”
Perhaps you need to understand how to properly identify the subject of the question which was Liberals. I knew exactly what you meant, by the way, and I choose to use your own language against you due to the fact that Liberals do whine about everything.
OldLefty January 15th, 2015 at 12:45 pm
You may be right, but I suspect that you knew what I meant.
Ron Gilbert January 15th, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Well, yes. I wrote in my last comment that I knew what you meant. I chose to twist your comment to fit my beliefs.
bpollen January 7th, 2015 at 6:18 am
Boy, I could use a piece of that action: “Monsanto is corrupt, unethical, and a direct threat to bio-diversity, but they are NOT racist!” I prefer cash.