this is from an e mail i got from a guy i used to work with.
"When I came on the job just twenty short years ago, the City of New York was awash in the blood of its citizens. Close to three thousand New Yorkers annually became homicide victims. Then, as now, the overwhelming majority of these victims were young black males and, then as now, the overwhelming majority of persons turning these young black males into homicide victims were/are other young, black males.
Al Sharpton became prominent (although notorious is probably a better word) at around the time I came on the job. He interjected himself into a completely fabricated racial case upstate that quickly unraveled. He was sued for slander by the person falsely accused and socked with a verdict of nearly $100,000. Sharpton successfully evaded this judgement for years claiming poverty (while his children attended a fancy $15,000 a year private school) until he was able to find some sucker to pay his bill. Finding suckers to pay his bill became Sharptons forte'.
Fast forward twenty years and we find a much different New York. Homicides are down from 3000 to around 600. Crime has fallen in all categories and the men and women of the New York City Police Department are solely responsible for it, having given their blood and in too many cases their lives for the "Safest Big City in the Country". And who have been the biggest beneficiaries of our sacrifices? You guessed it. Young, black males of whom there are about an extra 2600 of around every year because of our tireless efforts and supreme sacrifices.
What hasn't delcined is the percentage of young black males who eagerly turn other young black males into homicide victims. Statistically, the biggest threat to the life of a young black male in the City of New York remains another young black male and Sharpton and company have done absolutely nothing to address it. There is no profit in preaching personal responsibility. There exists no opportunity to graft when delivering the message of self-respect. This is why you will never see Sharpton slither in every day and a half or so when a black man kills another black man.
Look what they did to Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby had the nerve to suggest that the Black community show some self respect in their actions and suddenly two women emerged from nowhere claiming allegations of impropriety from thirty years earlier. Cosby was messing with the Goose that laid the Golden Egg and they fixed him but good.
Sharpton and company as self appointed leaders of the black community have presided over a record drop-out rate, the highest infant mortality rate outside of the third world, a nearly total rate of children born out of wedlock and a self genocide, but can find no more compelling or important issue than a drunken felon who attempted to run over a police officer and in the process wrecked his own car (containing spent shell casings)as well as two police cars before forcing an incredibly restrained squad to open fire to bring his reckless actions to a halt.
The black community under the direction of Al Sharpton is fiddling while Rome burns.
