Episodes
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Leid Stories - 12.08.14
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Collector of Bones: For Sharpton Inc., Police Killings Are An Industry
The Big Chill: Obama Tempers Black Outrage Over Racism, Injustice
The spate of police killings has been good for business—if, like the Rev. Al Sharpton, you’re in the business of making your bones by standing on the bones of Black and Latino men cut down by trigger- and chokehold-happy cops.
Al Sharpton Inc.-- the Bloviator in Chief and his “legal team”--is doing excellent business this year, a bumper crop of police killings increasing his net sales, profit margin and market dominance. He’s has a monopoly now; he’s the undisputed King of the Blacks.
Leid Stories discusses the “industry” Sharpton has spawned, and how he makes his bones as a masterful collector of dead men’s bones.
The Black Entertainment Network (BET) tonight airs what it proudly touts "an exclusive interview” with President Barack Obama, in which he’ll address “modern civil rights, police relations and justice for all in America,” says a network news release.
What it really is, says Leid Stories, is a shameless White House-directed public-relations campaign to keep a lid on Black outrage over police killings and race-based corruption of the criminal-justice system that have now come to be an international embarrassment.
BET is thrilled about scoring the presidential exclusive. But as Leid Stories observes in a commentary about Obama’s contempt for his political base, BET should note that it’s the first for the Black network, has taken six years, and will focus strictly on what Obama wants to talk about.