Conservative Paper Invokes Lynching In Anti-Sharpton Editorial Cartoon

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/22/2334351/website-invokes-lynching-in-anti-sharpton-editorial-cartoon/

if anything IMO he may have been duped but his heart and mind were where those who promote this racist trash have never been, these same people glaringly don't mention all the good he's done since they just go back to where they have reason in their heads to hate.  thats like having a limited vocabulary you only know a few things of old but nothing new, your loss.

Investors’ Business Daily, a business newspaper widely viewed as having a conservative editorial page, decided to dip its toes into racial politics over the weekend with a political cartoon about the case of Trayvon Martin. But instead of presenting a valid criticism of the negative reactions to George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict, the publication invoked lynchings— one of the great tragedies committed against Black Americans — to try to make its point.

In an attempt to level criticism at Al Sharpton, the Black reverend-turned-TV host who has been deeply involved in cases of racial injustice, the cartoonist depicted various incidents in which Sharpton has been active as people being hanged from a tree:

Crown Heights, Freddie’s Fashion Mart, and the Tawana Brawley hoax are all cases in which Sharpton was deeply involved. And all three turned out to be somewhat disastrous — a riot in Crown Heights, a shooting at Freddie’s, and a false rape accusation by Tawana Brawley. 

But while it’s totally acceptable for the cartoonist to take issue with Sharpton and the controversies in which he’s been involved, this cartoonist instead chose to invoke a racially-motivated crime that killed nearly 5,000 Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries. What’s more, two major conservative publications decided to run it.

 has he ever been convicted of creating hoaxes or that the whole thing was his idea, well he came in after these things were news.  there are many people who would ask those who oppose and demonize peaceful marches and demonstrations and get pepper sprayed and Rev. Al came in after the facts, many who's abuses would never have made it to page 50 of the fashion pages. to those i might ask what have you done for anybody lately?
as far as Brawley all media labeled her hoaxster not Rev Al