Good job on answering the question..

You know the answer, but it pains you to admit it..

The Michael Browns don't fund his organization..

they have donors like ford motors, PepsiCo, walmart, teachers unions, and a diverse list of corporations as well as 10000 plus paying members,,,

you are right, I don't have the personal information on those thousands,,,lol

but


it causes me no pain at all, I just saw it as a distraction with no point,,

Oh please, MLKJr. was nowhere near the cash cow Al Sharpton is. Other then the color of their skin they have very little in common.

Religious ideals must be separated from everything involving major decisions for the people as a whole. Because you are a Christian you don't see how he is just another pawn in the far left pandering scheme. He has contradicted himself more than any other liberal I've seen/heard thus far whenever he holds a press conference.

......................yep,pay up,or we will Boycott you!

and it would serve them well to understand Economics!
They would make less of an A$$ of themselves!

oh well, that's free market,, give people what they want or lose business

why is it bad for him to participate in that system?

people don't separate their values,, from their life choices and decisions of what is right and wrong

only 'religious' are expected to do so,,,

not to mention that Sharpton hasn't the power to make decisions for people because he is not a POLITICIAN,, he only has power to bring people together over the decisions they want to see be made

he is no ones pawn, he has founded his own organization, based upon the causes that are important to him and he receives support from those who place similar importance upon those causes

as repeated before, in relation to THIS THREAD< his 'relevance' is as an activist in the modern civil rights movement,,,

and economists might make less of an A$$ of themselves if they understood or acknowledged the financial caste history of America,,,,

LOL, did you catch that- she used the word caste. Just shows how Marx is still more relevant than Friedman. Recent history demonstrates that when a nation militarizes its police it is because thy plan on adopting Friedman's ideas and they need to suppress the masses from opposing them

...back on topic,,,,

Just saying...

yeah,,,

and twigs are smaller than branches,,, just saying

but its not relevant to the actual topic,,,lol

Republicans Call Ferguson Voter Drive 'Disgusting, Completely Inappropriate'
Because . . . of course they do.
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August 20, 2014 |
From Juliet Lapidos at NYTimes...

On Sunday the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist and television host, mentioned that voter turnout in the Ferguson, Mo., area was a mere 12 percent in the last election, and pledged to help boost that number with a registration drive. Twelve percent, he said, was "an insult to your children." He wasn't the first to think of channeling the anger over Mike Brown's death in this particular direction. Twitter users on Saturday noted voter registration tables in front of the makeshift memorial where the unarmed teenager was shot by a police officer.

Encouraging more participation in the democratic process in a community that feels alienated from political power - hence the demonstrations - seems like an obviously good idea; and one that's particularly compelling because it's so simple. Voting is an alternative to protesting in the streets.

And yet, the executive director of the Missouri Republican Party, Matt Wills, denounced the plan.

Mr. Wills told the right-wing website Breitbart: "If that's not fanning the political flames, I don't know what is. I think it's not only disgusting but completely inappropriate."

On another right-wing site, Red State, Dan McLaughlin also argued that there was something indecent about the registration drive. Ferguson presents an opportunity for "Right and Left" to find "common ground," he wrote. But "the minute you turn your energies into just another effort to register Democratic voters and fire up the Democratic base in advance of an election," he argued, "the harder you make it to keep the common ground from vanishing in the fog."

Who said anything about "register[ing] Democratic voters"?

"Voter registration for #Ferguson residents is at the QT & the crime scene. SIGN UP. Get on the juries, choose your leaders," tweeted attorney and activist @ReignOfApril. "Voter Registration is a brilliant way to honor #MichaelBrown's memory. It's a positive reaction to horrible situation," wrote @Koursey in reply.

While the city of Ferguson is two-thirds African-American, the vast majority of their police force and almost all local elected officials are not.

"Though whites make up just 29% of the city's residents," reports MSNBC's Zachary Roth, "five of Ferguson's six city council members are white, as is Mayor James Knowles. And six of the local school board's seven members are white."

"We warned people about these kinds of things," John Gaskin of the Missouri NAACP told Roth. "Who hires the police officers? The police chief. Who hires the police chief? The mayor. Who hires the mayor? Who elects the council folks?"

As the Times' Lapidos goes on to note, "Mr. Sharpton did not say that the residents of Ferguson should vote for Democrats; he said they should vote, full stop." She adds: "Isn't it telling that both Mr. Wills and Mr. McLaughlin make no distinction between voter registration and Democratic registration?"

For the record, Ferguson's local elections are nonpartisan.



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(Separately, kudos to the Times' Lapidos for describing those two websites for what they are, "right-wing", rather than usual "conservative". It must not have been easy to get that past the Times' editors, even though it's completely accurate. Or maybe the paper has changed their previously unhelpful style rules under their new Executive Editor Dean Baquet, along with this one. Either way, truth in reporting there is accurate, a great change of pace and far more helpful to the electorate.)

Brad Friedman writes the BradBlog.

Voting is a safer way to try to affect change than protests,,,,

I think its a great idea.

and the Black Panthers, armed by Eric Holder, could provide the security.

nation of islam actually provides the best security,, the new black panthers have violent leadership,,,,

I sure wish him God's speed and Good Luck to find it!
Afraid he might be on a Fool's Errand!

I applaud him for his lifelong efforts at trying to shed light and be active.