How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations

[DigitalDrifter]

Shakedown !

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.

Sharpton notably did not publicly assert his support for Pascal after the meeting — what observers say seems like a typical Sharpton “shakedown” in the making. Pay him in cash or power, critics say, and you buy his support or silence.


“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.

And Sharpton, who now boasts a close relationship with Obama and Mayor de Blasio, is in a stronger negotiating position than ever.

“Once Sharpton’s on board, he plays the race card all the way through,” said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. “He just keeps asking for more and more money.”

How Sharpton gets paid to not cry 8216 racism 8217 at corporations New York Post

 

[Katzndogz]

The first person to stand up to that bastard should get an achievement award.

 

[hipeter924]

The first person to stand up to that bastard should get an achievement award.

Should be the New York Post, as I doubt Sharpton won't respond to this criticism at some point.

 

[Nutz]

Capitalism at its best. We all know what Sharpton is...the outrage should be towards the companies that paid these ransoms.

 

[S.J.]

Sounds like Jesse Jackson's "shakedown" campaign against Toyota.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Capitalism at its best. We all know what Sharpton is...the outrage should be towards the companies that paid these ransoms.

And I for one am going to try as best I can of avoiding products made by Sony.
Amy Pascal the Sony chairperson recently bent over and grabbed her ankles for Sharpton. Time to pay her back.