Report: Companies Pay Off Al Sharpton to Avoid ‘Racist’ Label

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Sony Pictures Entertainment isn’t the first corporation to reach out to the Rev. Al Sharpton for help with its image in the black community, and the New York Post reports that Sharpton allegedly gets paid to keep from calling the companies racist.

Sharpton’s National Action Network has received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past decade from companies eager to gain his support or simply to keep him quiet, the Post said.

“Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didn’t come to terms with him,” National Legal & Policy Center Ken Boehm told the Post. “Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns.”

A typical scenario involves Sharpton confronting a company over accusations of racism. He then meets with company executives, who end up contributing to NAN.

“Once Sharpton’s on board, he plays the race card all the way through,” the Post quoted a person it said has worked with Sharpton as saying. “He just keeps asking for more and more money.”

The Post cites a New York state inspector general’s report on Plainfield Asset Management, which in 2008 gave $500,000 to Education Reform Now, which in turn gave the money to NAN.

The money was intended to promote “educational equality,” but it was given at the same time Plainfield was part of a group, Capital Play, trying to build a racetrack and casino in Queens.

Plainfield denied the money was intended to curry favor from Sharpton, but a year later NAN was given another $100,000 from AEG, which had taken over for Capital Play, as a battle over the company’s licensing was brewing.

The inspector general’s report cited an email between two AEG employees in 2009 claiming that Sharpton had lobbied hard on the company’s behalf with then-Gov. David Patterson.

Though Sharpton denied taking any action on the casino’s behalf, AEG saw its payments as a way of keeping Sharpton from criticizing them and hurting their efforts, the Post quoted a person it said was familiar with the situation as saying.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. About a decade ago, I was involved in a company that serviced some major chain stores. One day, we got an angry call from one of the stores that they received a complaint that the label on one of our products has a name on it that has a racist anti-black connotation. It was something made overseas with a hispanic name that happened to have an unintended very obscure racist connotation that even 99% of BLACKS aren’t aware of. The store was so upset, they wanted to throw us out. It would have been a major loss to our business. We had to write a letter of apology to some obscure one-man anti-racist organization (run by a black, of course), along with a sizeable donation, in order to get them to notify the store that the matter was dealt with to their satisfaction, and that they will not do any bad publicity against the store….It’s all about using racial accusations in order for these “hero vigilantes” to extort money.

  2. He’d sell his mother for a buck!
    Where the money is greener Rev Al is there! He’s being paid off to shut his mouth, so he’s shutting down the rhetoric station!

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