Shakedown Sharpton shook down the Kamala Kampaign

I didn’t see this one coming.

Al Sharpton has a long history of being a race hustler shake down artist.

What some might just consider as shameless political opportunism, is much more than that. Any activist, or community organizer campaign can be lucrative if you know how to ‘work it’, and ‘black activism’ is no different. Sharpton comes from a long and established line of ‘poverty pimps‘ – men and women who have sought to profit from the poorest corners of their own neighborhoods – maximizing their personal capital gains by reminding ‘their own’ of just how bad their lot is, and telling them who else is to blame for whatever perceived ills may have fallen upon them, in this life, the last, and the next (it’s a very thorough sales pitch).

What Al Sharpton is allowed to do from his new pulpit of respectability on MSNBC, or through his cash cow, National Action Network (NAN) touting the mob’s favorite threat, ‘No Justice, No Peace’ (unless he gets paid) is really no different, and as the New York Post recently points out – it’s nothing short of extortion. In their article entitled, “How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations”, journalists Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein describe how Sharpton purposefully inserts himself into any possible situation that might contain racial overtones, or even undertones, positioning himself in front of various unwitting potential shakedown. He extracts his treasure in the form of donations and “consultancy fees”, usually payment for instructions on how not to fall foul of his politically correct and racially-charged mobs.

He’s been doing it for years. Whether it’s inciting looting, street rioting and killings at Freddy’s Fashion Mart in New York City, whipping-up mob retaliation over false accusations against police in the Tawana Brawley fake rape case, stiring up race mobs over Trayvon Martin in Florida, promoting Dorian Johnson’s lie in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, or lobbying to get Barack Obama’s head on to Mount Rushmore – Sharpton is there, running one shakedown or another.

Sharpton’s race mongering led to eight people being killed at Freddy’s.

That did not deter his efforts.

Sharpton raised $1 million for NAN at his 60th birthday bash in October, with donations rolling in from unions and a corporate roster of contributors including AT&T, McDonald’s, Verizon and Walmart.

Companies have long gotten in line to pay Sharpton. Macy’s and Pfizer have forked over thousands to NAN, as have General Motors, American Honda and Chrysler.

NAN had repeatedly and without success asked GM for donations for six years beginning in August 2000, a GM spokesman told The Post. Then, in 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the planned closing of an African-American-owned dealership in The Bronx. He picketed outside GM’s Fifth Avenue headquarters. GM wrote checks to NAN for $5,000 in 2007 and another $5,000 in 2008.

Sharpton targeted American Honda in 2003 for not hiring enough African-Americans in management positions.

“We support those that support us,” Sharpton wrote to the company. “We cannot be silent while African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant manner.”

Two months later, car company leaders met with Sharpton, and Honda began to sponsor NAN’s events. The protests stopped.

Sharpton landed a gig as a $25,000-a-year adviser to Pepsi after he threatened a consumer boycott of the soda company in 1998, saying its ads did not portray African-Americans. He held the position until 2007.

A couple of years ago Sharpton made a run at McDonald’s.

During her campaign for President, Kamala Harris was shelling out big bucks for celebrity endorsements. She also spent a great deal for interviews and among them were $500,000 in payments to Al Sharpton for his interviewing her.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly gave large amounts of money to organizations run by media figures in the weeks before sitting down for interviews with them.

FEC filings, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, show the Harris campaign gave two $250,000 donations to Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit organization in September and October.

Harris sat down for a friendly interview with the MSNBC host on October 20, in which he asked her what she wanted her legacy to be, 50 years from now.

It seems that Rev Al failed to inform MSNBC about this.

MSNBC was “unaware” that Kamala Harris’s campaign paid Al Sharpton’s nonprofit $500,000 shortly before Harris sat for a softball interview with the cable host, a network spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon.

He wouldn’t say, though, whether the left-wing network is taking any action against Sharpton for a move that appears to violate network policy. Other network hosts like Joe Scarborough have been publicly reprimanded for their failure to disclose making, rather than receiving, political donations.

The Harris campaign made a $250,000 contribution to Sharpton’s National Action Network on Sept. 5 and another on Oct. 1, just weeks before Sharpton conducted a favorable interview with the Democratic nominee, the Free Beacon reported.

Sharpton did not inform MSNBC viewers of the contributions during the segment, nor did he inform network brass, a network spokesman said.

“MSNBC was unaware of the donations made to the National Action Network,” the spokesman said. He declined to say whether the network would take any action, indicating that it does not comment on “personnel matters.”

It’s unlikely that MSNBC will take an action against Sharpton as he would likely shake them down in return.

To me the most shocking part of this is that Sharpton was shaking down a black woman in her campaign for President. That I did not see coming.