Nigger Scam Artist Rev. Sharpton Upset With Dems on Hate Crimes

November 7, 2007

Sharpton Upset With Dems on Hate Crimes

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton complained on Tuesday that the Democratic

presidential candidates have been less than forceful in speaking out about

recent hate crimes and the policies of President Bush's Justice Department.

The New York-based reverend was in Washington with Martin Luther King III

and other activists to discuss a march next week at the headquarters of the

Justice Department, which they contend has taken no serious action to

prosecute a spate of recent noose-hanging incidents following the Jena Six

case.

Sharpton said he was upset those issues weren't discussed last month at a

debate among the Democratic candidates.

"Hate crimes and racism and Jena never came up one time. Even the Democrats

have not, in our judgment, raised their voices to the level they should,"

said Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004. "Don't come to us for our vote

and then not speak about our needs when you're center stage."

Concern about noose-hanging incidents intensified after an uproar in the

small town of Jena, La., surrounding three white teens who hung nooses

outside a school and six black teens later charged in the beating of a white

student. Five of the six were initially charged with attempted murder, but

those charges were reduced.

Sharpton and others have criticized the federal government for declining to

use existing hate crime laws to prosecute the teens who hung the nooses.

Federal prosecutors say they typically do not file such charges against

minors. Nooses are a reviled symbol of segregation-era violence.

Justice Department officials say they are aggressively investigating

numerous noose-hanging reports around the country. On Tuesday, the march

organizers said they knew of no criminal charges filed in any of the recent

incidents.

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