Al Sharpton’s Bastard Children Raising Hell

This is what civil disobedience looks like when it’s raised on “No Justice No Peace,” when it’s removed from spiritual values, when it embraces the tactics of the bigoted forces it allegedly opposes, when it panders to social media.

It looks like the hot mess we saw at the University of Missouri. It looks like Tawana Brawley 2.0.

You remember Tawana Brawley, a misguided teen girl manipulated by self-appointed social justice warrior Al Sharpton. Brawley claimed bigoted police raped her. A grand jury declared the allegations had no basis in fact, and one of the accused successfully sued her for defamation. Sharpton rode her lies to national prominence and infamy.

Payton Head, Missouri’s 21-year-old, black, gay homecoming king and student body president, and Jonathan Butler, Missouri’s 25-year-old, Fresh Prince career student, are Columbia’s Tawana Brawley.

Who’s Al Sharpton?

There are almost too many to list, and they mostly lack Rev. Sharpton’s forthrightness. They operate in the shadowy cyberworld, headquartered on Twitter and at snark websites, claiming not to be leaders. We know their Gawd and their scripture.

Ta-Nehisi Coates crafts beautiful, first-blush-hypnotizing, hopelessly cynical, white-man-controls-your-destiny prose that inspires modern-day social justice warriors. White liberal bloggers cover their bigotry by quoting their black Gawd. 

Man, it’s all enough to make you long for the days when Rev. Al was 200 pounds heavier, preferred Fila sweatsuits, red-black-and-green medallions and spoke eloquently off the cuff rather than disjointedly reading a teleprompter. Compared to these buttery-soft, safe-space, took-the-long-way-home-from-school revolutionaries, Big Al had jheri-curl-conk, Day 1 authenticity.

Big Al believed his own bullshit and didn’t spend every waking moment worried that some random white person harbored ill feelings toward him.

Again, I’m going to try to avoid blasting these young folk. I want to explain to you how media fear of the fascist, left-wing echo chamber contributed to the anarchy at Missouri. Clay Travis covered some of this in his piece at Outkick The Coverage. I want to tie it all together.

Basic common sense dictates that Head’s assertion that Missouri is the devil’s racist playpen be vigorously challenged. Head is black. Head is gay. He’s homecoming king. He’s student body president. Those four facts scream that the racist devil has clearly lost control of his playpen. Most rational people would conclude that Head’s narrative proves Mizzou has made significant racial progress. Homecoming king and student body president are about as high socially as a college kid can climb.

It’s difficult to use Head’s story as proof of the school’s entrenched bigotry. Head has an unsophisticated worldview and deep-seated insecurity if all it takes to ruin his good time in college is a few hillbillies randomly shouting racial slurs. He’s also clearly swept up in the wave of fawning approval he’s receiving. On Tuesday he falsely claimed he was communicating with the National Guard about the KKK being on Mizzou’s campus. The groupthink echo chamber has turned this kid out.

The media are obligated to report this. We’re also obligated to report that Jonathan Butler’s repeated claims about being hit by the president’s car appear to be a fabrication. There’s video of the apparent incident. He intentionally made contact with the car during a homecoming parade ambush of Tim Wolfe.

This is Tawana Brawley all over again. But the media are afraid to go at this story aggressively because the Black Lives Matter army has overtaken Twitter and is poised to label any journalist questioning the bogus narrative a bigot or a “truther.” People hate being called bigots, so it’s much easier to report the Twitter-approved, false narrative.

If you’re black and you sway from the false narrative, the black Twitter army will preach you a lesson from their Coates bible about “Respectability Politics.”

Respectability Politics is the dismissive answer to any criticism of black behavior by black elders. It allows young people to avoid reflecting, thinking, evolving and losing an argument. It’s a clever tool used by white liberals to separate young black people from older black people who have experience successfully combating institutional racism.

Let me tell you how effective it is. These young social justice warriors are all Al Sharpton offsprings, but they can’t stand Al Sharpton because, over the past 20 years, he recognized the error of his ways and evolved into a more mature leader.

It’s crazy, man.

No one over 45 is safe from being attacked by the angry BLM mob. Spike Lee just got hit because he’s doing a satirical movie addressing the violence problems in Chicago.

The more I see the more I believe these kids and their hipster friends, like Sharpton years ago, recognize the opportunity in trafficking in dumbed-down racial crusades. They’ve adopted the lying tactics of bigots. When this farce is all over, the hipsters get to go home, pull their pants up, cut their hair and blend back into mainstream America. The black kids and black folk are going to suffer the consequences.

There will be consequences. You trash the reputation of a major institution for reasons as flimsy and dishonest as the ones offered at Mizzou and the people who proudly flaunt their Black and Gold education are going to remember this. They’re going to make sure it never happens again, and that doesn’t mean acquiescing to the demands of irresponsible children over the long haul.

It won’t be long until you’ll see laws and admissions policies that reflect universities completely giving up on (black) diversity. You attack your problems with a cynical, hopeless, God-less worldview and soon the world will feed you God-less, hopeless cynicism. Hardened hearts create hardened hearts.

That wisdom comes with age. Those of us with gray in our hair are not afraid to challenge the establishment for positive change. We’ve lived long enough to know how and learned enough to tell about it.

Dr. King raised us, not Rev. Al.