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Patch.com | Al Sharpton To Speak Tuesday In DeKalb Patch.com Sharpton, a longtime activist, heads the National Action Network and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show and podcast called Keepin it Real." The popular podcast delves into current events allows Sharpton to opine on the socioeconomic issues of ... |
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Rev. Al Sharpton claimedthis weekend that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice is just the latest victim of a Republican campaign of calumny against influential African-American femalesan effort the black activist argued has already targeted California Congressman Maxine Waters and journalist April Ryan.
Reports aroselast weekthat Ricewho served under ex-President Barack Obamarequested the names of Americans citizens caught discussingPresident Donald Trumpon surveillance recordings withRussian government agents prior to the inauguration in January. GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas have pointed to as proof the former White House aide was behind recent leaks to the media about Trump advisors and associates who had contact with Kremlin officials, while South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr have called for an investigation.
Rice has denied these insinuations and assertions, and Sharpton declared during his weekly rally on Saturday that the allegations are part of a pattern of conservative attacks on black women.
Same time we saw that they want to jump on Susan Rice. Now, how many black women are yall gonna try to demonize? Sharpton told anapplauding crowd at the Harlem headquarters of his National Action Network. We are not going to stand by this litany of our women being the target practice.
The controversial civil rights leader tied the scrutiny on Rice to a February confrontationat the White House between Trump advisor Omarosa Manigault and Ryan, a correspondent for American Urban Radio Networksboth of themAfrican-American women. He also linkedthese incidents to Fox News host Bill OReillys mockingof Waters, the California congresswoman, for her James Brown wig.
You start by this fighting with Omarosa and April Ryan. Then you go from that to you going to jump all over Maxine Waters. Now this week its Susan Rice, Sharpton said.
Sharpton revealed that National Action Network personnel would join Public Advocate Letitia James at a protest Wednesday evening outside Fox News headquarters. Demonstrators will call for OReillys firing amid mounting allegations of racial discrimination and sexual harassment against the television and radio personality.
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A civil-rights activist affiliated with Al Sharptons nonprofit is under fire after making racist comments about Middle Easterners.
The controversy began when James Johnson, president of the Charleston, South Carolina chapter of National Action Network, held a March 29 news conference responding to video footage that shows local store employees beating a man they said tried to steal from their store.
In a 10-mile radius, we have 34 Arab or foreign stores within our community, Johnson said. Were not going to allow them to rape our community anymore. They need to go back to their country, where their laws are different for from our laws.
The controversial comments were covered in local mediabut Johnson didnt back down from them.
By no means is this an apology, he said Wednesday. To clarify, Johnson said, his go back to their country remarks were directed at the two people shown beating a man, not at Middle Easterners as a whole.
I think the word rape may have been misused, Johnson said, but its as proven fact that those 34 stores within the community do not put any money within that community.
In response to Heat Streets inquiry, the national National Action Network office sent a written statement by Rev. Nelson B. Rivers, III, the organizations vice president of religious affairs and external relations.
Rivers called Johnsons comment unfortunate and said the organization will discuss Johnsons leadership status at their national conference in New York City, held from April 26-29.
The national organization only revokes local elected National Action Network officials status after a vote by the national board. Otherwise, the local chapter could hold a vote to decide whether to expel Johnson from their group.
Rivers said a meeting was long overdue to discuss blacks complaints about their treatment by Middle Eastern business owners.
While we believe that it is important to reassure members of the Middle Eastern community that we do not support discrimination but [sic] at the same time we must have a serious conversation about interactions between members of the African American community and these business owners, Rivers statement said.