From: nattyreb@ix.netcom.com
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 16:26:07
Subject: !*The Rev. Al Sharpton and the police

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The Rev. Al Sharpton and the police!


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05-20-99 

By Joe Williams III
Reply: tedoil@aol.com

The masses of people who showed up in Riverside, CA did not the circus
side show staged by Al Sharpton and his clones, with the blessing of the
mass media. They were there to protest the police murder of Tyisha Miller.
They were there to demand justice in the wake of the District Attorney’s
office refusal to press charges against the officers who pumped 12 bullets
into the body of this Riverside teenager. But the organizers of the
demonstration had their own agenda, both the local religious groups and
the national civil rights media pimps who would sell their ownmother for a
10 second sound byte, or a headline story on the daily newspaper. The
demonstration in Riverside was too clean, too pure, too much like what the
police, the media, the mayor, and the city council wanted and expected.
It’s as if the national leaders had been hand chosen to enter riverside
and calm down theresidents who had, and still have, anger because of the
racism in the area and the death of a young Black woman at the hands of an
out-of-control police force. 

The ministers’ messages were clear and uniform. Let God take care of this.
Be non-violent (passive) and let the Federal Government have an
investigation. But, there were many people in the crowd who were not in
step, not in tune. They wanted justice, they wanted an end to the police
violence and racism; and they were tired of waiting. The masses had sat
back and waited for years. The killings continue. And the Black
(so-called) leaders continue to grow old, fat, and rich. However, the
youth, the radicals, and the truly oppressed have grown tired of the pain
and the waiting on the spiraling effects of racism. They do not see the
cops asprotectors, but as just another gang in blue with guns. The worst
part of the Riverside demonstration was the staged non-violent civil
disobedience arrests. The arrestees were a controlled and selected lot.
They had practiced how to react, and how to be locked-up. the cops had
input into the stagedmockery. In fact, the whole circus had been reviewed
and approved by the police department. The media loved it. Dick Gregory,
Martin Luther King III, and Al Sharpton photographed well. Their words
were very cautious and non-threatening. They had come to riverside and
done what the white politicians could not do. The begged the masses for
more time and defused much of the anger from the crowd. These so-called
Black leaders restored peace and calm to the area. 

They will taketheir newfound fame and leave California, on their way to
put out the next racialfire. This type of cooperation (deals) between
so-called Black leaders and public officials, and the police have been
going on for years. The leaders grow rich and richer, after each propped
demonstration, and the masses, well they just keep dyingand hoping, and
wishing, and believing the lies of the forked tongued leaders. And the
media secretly wish they could find a thousand like Sharpton, King, and
Gregory, because when they come to town, the newspaper racks will be
sold-out before the sun goes down.

Reply: tedoil@aol.com

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