By Rabbi Aryeh Spero | American Greatness
It’s about time someone, as the President did, stopped all
this baloney and labeled Al Sharpton the con-man he has been for decades.
In
the name of being a “civil rights leader”, Sharpton has gotten away with not
paying millions of dollars in owed taxes.
He fomented rioting against Brooklyn’s
religious Jews.
He led --- with self-proclaimed racist Sonny Carson -- a boycott
of a Korean grocery store, where protesters called the owners “yellow monkeys.”
He held anti-Semitic, racially-charged rallies that led to the Freddy’s Department
Store massacre.
He knowingly and purposely destroyed the lives of two white
police officers in the Tawana Brawley hoax.
Sharpton has been shoved down our throats as "reverend" while
threatening “no justice, no peace.”
Finally, someone has demonstrated a compelling inner
sense of truth to portray Sharpton as what he is: a creator of hoaxes and
shakedowns, and a serial inciter of violence and racial strife for his own
power and self-enrichment.
President Trump is broadening the scope of the Presidency
by taking on issues no previous leader was willing to do.
First he alerted us
to a media no longer impartial but zealously preoccupied by manufacturing fake
news in behalf of a radical left-wing agenda.
He then exposed us to the
dangerous reality of a vast government bureaucracy, akin to a shadow
government, operating in behalf of its own interests and concerns and not those
of the American people.
The Deep State, confidently and without checks and
balances, ignores representatives elected by the American people while pursuing
a globalist and self-serving agenda.
And now he has pinpointed what we have all seen,
namely: decades of liberal-run major
cities, whose liberal policies, corruption, and mismanagement have degraded
these urban centers and harmed their inhabitants.
The liberal “icons” that have
controlled these areas for decades have allowed them, through their enforced
and sanctimonious liberalism, to degenerate from once great cities to districts
akin to hellholes.
No, it is not about
the race of the leaders, but their liberal policies.
Untouchable liberal icons such as Elijah Cummings are to
blame. Witness what Bill DeBlasio is doing to New York.
They grandstand about the U.S. southern border while remaining indifferent
to what is happening within their own district -- unless as an excuse to demand
that more funds be channeled their way.
Similarly, instead of Ocasio-Cortez
complaining about the southern border, she should, as I long ago suggested, pay
attention to the misery and squalor in large areas of her own Bronx and Queens
district.
No person is above criticism, not Sharpton, not Cummings,
not Omar, and not Tlaib or Ocasio-Cortez.
Those of the aforementioned who dish
it out, as they do daily when calling their opponents racists and white
supremacists, should be able to take it.
To claim that by virtue of calling oneself a “minority” one is above
legitimate criticism is to ascribe a certain supremacy and specialness to
oneself, which is itself racism.
Minority status is being exploited to deny others their legitimate
freedom of speech and stifle necessary political debate.
This leads to
corruption. We all need to be challenged and to be answerable.
Barack Obama used his Presidency to criticize and malign
America, label America a racist society, weaken us around the world, diminish
the importance of Christian religious freedom, and extol thugs like Al Sharpton
and traitors like Bo Bergdahl.
In contrast, President Trump, proud of being an
American, is standing up for the dignity of America.
He, like so many others,
is saying: It’s time to stop the baloney
and farce of lionizing self-serving agitators simply because they call
themselves civil rights leaders.
He will not be cowed by phony cries of
“racism” into accepting the unacceptable and bowing to the liberal icons and
imposters.
And neither should we.
It is not in our American makeup to quiver
and shake in our boots because someone will call us a name.
Thank you, Mr. President, for freeing us from
this liberal tyranny and for showing us the way of courage.
Rabbi
Spero is spokesman for Conference of Jewish Affairs and author of Push Back:
Reclaiming our American Judeo-Christian Spirit.
