Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist?
Then you need to pay Al Sharpton.
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.
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.
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12 comments:
Excuse me but does Al ever tell them not to refer to whites as "crackers"? Because as a white I'm getting pretty tired of being called such a racist name by blacks.
it's called extortion.
1:09 You lose when you let names bother you.
Gee, isn't this sorta like extortion?
But all the lemmings will follow his every racial word as the gospel! !
It will be a good day when I read that the nasty, self serving Grease Ball Al has been smeared from this planet for good.
2:225 Government agencies (MOSHA, MDE) get away with it... why not brother Al?
Where would you be if you owed IRS over 4 million dollars.
3:23 What is Inciting race wars and shaking people down for cash?
Why is the IRS not going after Al Sharpton's National Action Network for his unpaid taxes?
1:35 I try not to let names bother me - free speech and all the rest. But really when you get right down to it isn't enough enough already?
As for being called a 'cracker' I see no problem with this when I consider what the alternatives are.
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