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Thanks to Lincoln Walks at Midnight for this tip-off:

“The Rev. Al Sharpton did not appear at the rally or march, despite his staff’s confirmation earlier in the week that he was scheduled to attend. Instead, he held ‘an emergency press conference in New York,’ according to a spokeswoman, regarding New York Knicks coach Isaiah Thomas.”

No matter what my opinion is/was of the event, it is WRONG of Sharpton and his flunkies to treat Ms. Williams and her family this way.  He is supposed to be a “leader”.  Leaders don’t allow things like this to happen.

This brief note from the Toledo Blade reads to me that Sharpton had a previous commitment to stand alongside a multi-gazillionaire, Isiah Thomas, while he whines over a ruling that happened several weeks ago.  You know, where he was on the losing team in a sexual harassment case.  The one where he was on tape stating he felt “it was OK for a black man, but not a white one, to call a black woman “bitch.”

 According to a Canadian Press report: “He was criticized for that by Al Sharpton, who threatened to lead protests at Knicks games unless Thomas explained his remarks.”

So, in Mr. Sharpton’s eyes,  it’s better to be protesting a rich man in New York for using the word “bitch” at rich black women (Ms. Saunders earned $260,000 per year as the senor vice president of marketing and business operations for the NY Nicks.) than it is to keep a promise to a physically abused, poor black woman in West Virginia.

 I think he knew all along he wouldn’t be traveling down to Podunk, WV.  He just wanted his name in the news. 

That is not true leadership.

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