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I have been a first hand witness to the media savvy of Al Sharpton. There is much to say about 'the system' of national media, but what is not in doubt is that he is a master of it. Al Sharpton is the black Ryan Seacrest in the periodic melodrama of America's Black Violence. This is *the* black channel, and so long as that is the content that Americans are determined to tune in, his loss will create a vacuum for others to fill. I used to call this serial's producers "The Coalition of the Damned" and their headline acts go back before Rodney King - they claim the provenance of their litanies back to the 17th century.

Surely there are white equivalents, but the mainstream doesn't like them right now. But you can be assured to find them if you shake the bushes for #zebramurders or #itsoktobewhite. VDare is still out there, as are Steve Sailer and a host of other future hosts. The next Micah Johnson (Dallas) will be politicized out to Wazoo and Charlottesville. It won't take much considering America's blatant racial double standards which are only getting more deeply entrenched. Of course we can hope for a race-blind meritocracy backed by a favorable Supreme Court decision against Harvard (20-1199) but hope is not a strategy. Hope is more of a marketed sentiment, and the marketing experts are already on the side of the Coalition of the Damned. So are the institutional initiatives of DEI, ESG with a hint of CRT in the mix. What are the chances that somewhere another Timothy McVeigh is not being excited beyond reason?

The populists are winning and the elites are self-flagellating. It reminds me of the Latin I learned from Monty Python. "Pie Iesu domine dona eis requiem." Which coven is to be burned with the faulty logic of our times?

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Is there really anybody who is influenced by anything that Al Sharkfin says? The Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton grift came to an end because of the election of Obama and the rise of YouTube/Twitter (what the new era grifters use)

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Well, you have to consider the television producers who put him on the air in front of millions of Americans. They obviously care. Who was influenced by what Sergei Naryshkin's bots said about Hunter Biden. It's the very fact of that media presence that affects what is said and what is not said in any of American political discussions. And of course that's what we're talking about now - and it's why this story exists at all in the mainstream press, because this is Sharpton's space in the public mind. Just like Ryan Seacrest has space in the public mind.

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Which public ?

I can't think of people who are influenced by him in the Millenial/post-Millenial demographic .

The media is not omniscient .When compared to Tariq Nasheed, Umar Johnson - even Yvette Carnell,.l Sharpton is not significant . He is even outright hated.

Why do you think.reparations is on the agenda?.Not Sharpton.

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