Beto sucks up to Al Sharpton

Why any serious Democrat Presidential nominee has to take approval from this hack?

R1: Democratic. Speak English.

And yes, Al Sharpton sucks. I'll take Jesse Jackass over him any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Sharpton = charlatan.

Sharpton and Jackson are bigots!

[QUOTE]And yes, Al Sharpton sucks. I'll take Jesse Jackass over him any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Why would you take Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson over the Reverend Al?

R5: Because Jackson, despite his antisemitism, has done humanitarian work with Operation Breadbasket and Operation PUSH. I give him credit for that, plus he's a hometown guy from Chicago. I need a translator to understand him sometimes and he's not the best person either way, but I give the edge to him for the on the ground work. All old Al from Harlem has ever done is be a damn pundit on TV.

R6 Jackson may be Jew-hating scum, but he's MY Jew-hating scum.

Despite his antisemitism?

“Well John is a swell guy despite his child rape conviction.”

No idea why he would need to “suck up” to Sharpton but maybe he’s just checking around with prominent black “political leaders” to strategize with them. I’m guessing Sharpton isn’t the only one he met with or will meet with.

Sharpton just announced that to try to get some attention as Betomania is all-consuming. Maybe he wants him on his boring MSNBC show to improve ratings.

Sharpton sucks but criticism of an ethnic nation state like Israel isn’t ‘Jew hating’ anymore than criticism of Saudi Arabia is Muslim hating. Criticizing states that engage in violence and militant occupation isn’t akin to hatred of a people, come on now.

Beto is not a serious candidate for President. Can he point to any accomplishments or even job experience.

At least Obama had a few years in the US Senate.

Obama had 2 years in the Senate when he ran for President. Before that he'd had a failed campaign for Congress and been in the Illinois statehouse. Beto has had 3 terms in Congress.

R11, Sharpton has plenty of instances of anti-Semitic behavior on record without bringing Israel into the discussion.

[quote]Sharpton was a key player inflaming the 1991 Crown Heights riots following the death of a young African-American who was hit by an ambulance driven by a Hasidic driver. Sharpton called Jews “diamond merchants” with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. A mob subsequently attacked and murdered an innocent Hasidic Jewish student visiting from Australia. (Twenty-five years later, he wrote a mealy-mouthed not-quite apology for his rhetoric.)

That's blood libel, an ancient anti-Semitic libel against the Jews which has led to massacres. It should never be taken lightly.

Who's the cute guy in the blue-and-white checked shirt standing to the right of Beto?

Beto is HOT

r15 He's been mentioned in one of the Beto threads. He's a staffer.

R14, I don't get it. Why on earth would Sharpton ever say something like this. It makes no sense to me. It's like he made up shit out of thin air just to get a reaction.

Sharpton called Jews “diamond merchants” with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands.

R18, search the terms "Sharpton" and "Freddie's Fashion Mart" and then get back to us about Sharpton's motivations.

R15 that's Chris Evans, Beto's media manager - he's the one who videoed all Beto's campaign events. He looks tiny though as Beto's 6'5", maybe he's just normal size.

On MSNBC Sharpton was on and got asked about Beto. He said he'd contacted him to ask him to take part in a couple of civil rights remembrance events but Beto was already booked on the day in question. He said he asked Beto if he was running and Beto laughed it off.

R12, are you really that uninformed, or are you just a troll.

I'm a Canadian and Beto is starting to look better and better in more ways than one.

The OP mischaracterized the original story. The "sucks up" bit is bs.

Sharpton is a fucking criminal

I can’t stand Sharpton, he’s a gross opportunist, but he’s not responsible for what a mob did r14. The relationship between Black and Jewish Americans is complex as, like with Irish and Italian immigrants, Jewish Americans were accepted into the category of ‘white’ often by turning their back against blacks and other poc. Criticise him, sure, but bringing in a concept like blood libel, which applied to Europe where Jews were a horribly oppressed minority, is inappropriate in this case, even insulting. The history and privilege is totally different in America.

Beto doesn’t really doesn’t have any accomplishments.

Sorry but that’s true.

R26 = Bernie

What were Trump’s accomplishments?

R26 doesn’t really have any accomplishments.

Sorry, r26, but it’s true.

Did anyone catch MSNBC during the weekend? There was some Booker/Gillum queen pretty much dismissing Beto. Bitch please, Beto is far and away the better candidate.

Beto is just as qualified as JFK when he ran. He doesn't have the Kennedy family $ or influence, though.

R25, I'm guessing you missed the news about the shooting in Pittsburgh? Jews are now and have been oppressed in the United States historically. It's not an issue to relax about. Just because there aren't pogroms in Manhattan doesn't mean it's okay to spread blood libel. And that is exactly what Sharpton was doing when he said Jews had the blood of innocent babies on their hands. That is the classic libel against Jews. Don't ever tolerate it.

Maybe people in Texas don't care about Sharpton one way or the other.

He'd want to wake up and look at the bastard Sharpton and his relentless shit-stirring . With all the gun violence in Harlem, I'm surprised Sharpton was never taken out. The hair alone is good enough reason to shoot him.

Such total bullshit clickbait from BuzzFeed, quelle surprise.

One, Al Sharpton has never been a close advisor to President Obama. They have an agenda pretending otherwise.

Two, Beto and the Rev "communicated" in some way, presumably phone or email. They haven't met. They supposedly would like to meet some time in a few weeks. This may or may not happen, it's "let's do lunch" and who knows?

It's not something to get bent out of shape over. You're being weird.

It’s simply not the same r32. My Dutch-Jewish family was persecuted in Europe, but enjoys white privilege in Canada and America. Something doesn’t need to be as bad as the worst thing or compared to it to still be bad.

Sharpton went to the White House nearly a hundred times, of course he was very influential.

Beto needs to really carve out his out niche and not tie himself too closely to Obama.

R36 Not the same? Inciting a pogrom against Jews is EXACTLY the same as happened and continues to happen in Europe. Discrimination and scapegoating continues EXACTLY like in Europe. Your ignorance is shameful.

No, r37, Al Sharpton has never been a close advisor to President Obama. Never. Read any of the Obama White House books, learn a bit about the President and the Obama administration. Sharpton was not a close advisor to the President. Sorry, kid.

So why would he want arrange for them to meet, then, R39?

Your view of history is too lachrymose and lacking nuance r38. It’s difficult to take you seriously as your posts are too over the top. Not helpful.

Why wouldn't he, r40? Sharpton's big in New York, big in the African American community, big with groups who might like to meet Beto. Democratic politicians network, make introductions around the country, the usual, casual stuff. Why would you try to make so much out of it? Why does BuzzFeed pretend Sharpton is a close advisor to President Obama?

Weird.

Sharpton absolutely WAS a close Obama adviser

[quote] My Dutch-Jewish family was persecuted in Europe, but enjoys white privilege in Canada and America.

So living in a country where you don't experience racism or intolerance is now being privileged?

Not all Jews, just like not all Latin people, can pass for white. There are many ethnic stereotypes regarding Jews that live on today even in the USA.

No, being accepted as white is an immense privilege r44. White Jews can’t be oppressed by non-white people because oppression comes with institutional power, therefore the above poster’s comparisons to long ago persecution in Europe in reference to Sharpton are wildly inappropriate. We can criticize his words without resorting to such absurd comparisons, which just lead to people dismissing the criticism altogether.

This guy can’t beat Trump.

[quote]Beto sucks up to Al Sharpton

Better than sucking off Al Sharpton.

Wow Chris Evans is putting aside his Hollywwod career to follow Beto around!

THE Chris Evans of Hollywood's a big Beto fan too. He was always retweeting Beto's tweets.

R50 Miss Evans needs to come out already. Her man-crushes are embarrassingly obvious.

What happens if the two Chris Evanses meet?

Does it cause a temporal, timey wimey crisis of some sort like it sometimes goes on Doctor Who?

[quote]White Jews can’t be oppressed by non-white people because oppression comes with institutional power

Arabs and other whites oppress Jews.

Arabs and blacks oppress Hispanics

Whites oppress blacks

Blacks oppress gays

Anyone can oppress anyone.