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...Brawley affair was not an isolated event. Sharpton has repeatedly employed the same techniques: he searches out alleged victims of racial violence, designates himself as their spokesperson and does what he can to stir up racial tension...
Sometimes, Sharpton manages to find what are indeed racially motivated hate crimes, like the infamous 1991 Bensonhurst case, when a Black teenager was brutally beaten to death by a gang of white men. Just as often, though, Sharpton makes race an issue and inflames tensions without cause...
...year-old Gavin Cato in Crown Heights. The crime was a traffic accident; a car driven by a Hasidic Jew spun out of control, running onto the sidewalk and killing Cato, who was Black. Blacks then rioted for three days in Crown Heights. After the unrest had been quelled, Sharpton planned a protest march through Crown Heights, much to the dismay of Mayor David Dinkins, who feared that the demonstration would erupt into another riot. The rally proceeded without incident, primarily because the marchers were outnumbered by police officers. Sharpton made it clear that he would grab media attention, even...
...Sharpton aide who introduced him at Harvard on Wednesday night painted him as a hard working, accomplished civil rights activist. Sharpton himself claims to follow in the footsteps of Martin Luther King, Jr. And he initiates many of King's methods--marches, church rallies and direct action...
...reality, though, Sharpton has built his reputation by fanning the flames of racial tension and anger, not by improving the situation of Blacks. Instead of confronting racists and bigots with "brotherly love," as King did, Sharpton and his followers rally behind the slogan of "No justice, no peace"--the threat of violence always lurking in the shadows...