The Grievance Master

 Rev. Al and the infamous Crown Heights riot

When he was recently asked by Megyn Kelly of Fox News to comment on the violent rhetoric being espoused by the Marxist Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization, the Rev. Al Sharpton claimed that his organization "does not use nor condone that kind of language." 

Sharpton's organization is known as the National Action Network, and while it may not currently espouse the kind of provocative, in-your-face rhetoric being used by BLM, it certainly did years ago. In fact, the reverend and his organization not only once espoused violent rhetoric, they backed it up with violent action.

Such as the violence that occurred during the infamous Crown Heights (Brooklyn, N.Y.) riot in 1991. That riot began soon after 7-year old cousins Gavin and Angela Cato were struck by a car driven by an Orthodox Jew named Yosef Lifsh. 

Gavin and Angela were riding their bikes during a summer evening that year when Lifsh's car went out of control and struck the two children after it was rear-ended by another car. Since the Catos were black and Lifsh was a white Orthodox Jew, many blacks believed that Lifsh intentionally targeted the children.

Relations between Jews and blacks in New York were already strained before the incident. Just a month before riot, truthrevolt.org recalled this:  

On July 20, 1991, Leonard Jeffries of City College (New York), who had a history of anti-Semitic slurs, presented a two-hour long speech claiming "rich Jews" financed the slave trade, Jews controlled the film industry (together with Italian mafia), and used that control to paint a brutal stereotype of blacks. Jeffries also attacked Diane Ravitch, (Assistant Secretary of Education) calling her a "sophisticated Texas Jew," "a debonair racist" and "Miss Daisy."

Though Lifsh got out of his car and tried to help the children, he was attacked by a group of angry people. A short time later, the then corpulent Sharpton turned up the heat on an already volatile situation by uttering this peaceful message: "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." 

The rhetoric predictably got even worse after Gavin Cato died from his injuries. Sharpton called the Jews "diamond merchants" and "bloodsuckers", and he accused them of draining black neighborhoods of money while putting nothing back into them. His inflammatory rhetoric provoked the riot that took the life of a 29 year-old Orthodox Jew named Yankel Rosenbaum who was stabbed several times and beaten to death in Crown Heights on August 20. 

Sharpton's peaceful street protest also resulted in seven stores being looted or burned; 27 vehicles being destroyed, and 190 people being injured including 152 police officers. Property damage was estimated at one million dollars. Thank goodness that Sharpton's group espoused nonviolent protest. You can only imagine what might have happened had it promoted what the BLM promotes.

And who can forget the infamous Tawana Brawley rape hoax (1987) that Sharpton continued to promote even after Brawley herself admitted to fabricating it? Sharpton used that hoax to promote himself as a champion of civil rights and a defender against white racists. In reality, the only person that Sharpton championed was himself and his inflated self-image. 

Now Sharpton wants everyone to believe that he's a great man of peace who promotes nonviolent social protest to highlight racial injustice just like the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sharpton is to Dr. King as Genghis Khan was to Jesus Christ. 

If Sharpton is truly the Christian that he claims to be, then he should be familiar with this famous quote from the Lord he claims to represent here on earth: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." (Matthew 5:9) Or this one: 

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:43-48)

Surely, Sharpton's familiar with those scriptures. But he won't preach them because the grievance industry thrives on provocative rhetoric and confrontation rather than on peace and harmony. Sharpton's familiar with that. And long before the Black Lives Matter group existed, Sharpton was already utilizing the BLM's modus operandi for his own personal gain.