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So you think Chicagoist is sometimes too critical of the way Mayor Daley runs the city? Wait until the Reverend Al Sharpton gets settled in his new digs. The boisterous Gotham-based minister, with the pompadour that's fading away like a Neil Young lyric, is opening a Chicago chapter of his National Action Network this week, in part to add pressure to His Elective Majesty and Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine to react faster to police officers accused of brutality. Citing his involvement in high-profile NYPD brutality cases such as the 1997 assault of Abner Louima, Sharpton promises to hold the Mayor's office to a zero-tolerance policy regarding police brutality. When not in town, Rev. Sharpton's office will be represented by the Reverend Jeri Wright, the daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Senator Barack Obama's pastor).
The opening of Rev. Sharpton's office will also put into clear view the differing approaches of him and the Reverend Jessee Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition toward civil rights issues. While Rev. Jackson is more polished and established as an elder statesman, Rev. Sharpton won't hesitate to get "ruff" when the situation requires. Sometimes, as in the 1987 Tawana Brawley rape case, that approach comes back to haunt him. However, the two men often have the same goal in mind. The two teamed together to pressure CBS into firing Don Imus this spring. However, Rev. Jackson sees Rev. Sharpton's mission here in Chicago as a mirror of his own regarding police brutality.
If anything, this news gave us a reason to find this sweet shot of Rev. Sharpton and James Brown leaving the Reagan White House in 1982 after lobbying the Gipper to name Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday.
Image, by the way, courtesy of CNN/AP.
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How could they breathe in those suits?
I don't know about Sharpton, by James Brown would have looked smooth in a cement suit.
Oh yeah, and Imus will be back on the air in the Fall...last I heard WNBC hasn't really found a replacement that stuck. And even Sharpton has recently said "He never intended for Imus to be off the air forever."
You failed to capitalize Neil Young's last name. Lovely post otherwise! Amazing pic!
Corrected, #3. Should show up soon.
God, we don't need that gas bag in Chicago. He's a mess. They must be running him our of NYC after he went after IMUS.
I hope he knows we find the term "NAPPY HEADED HO" ok here in the Midwest.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall at PUSH. While the two will be forced to show a united front for the cameras...one can only imagine that Jesse finds Al's blowhard entry onto Jackson's turf a wee bit maddening.
I am no fan of poverty pimpery, But I'm glad Sharpton is coming, because if your gonna poverty pimp at least challenge the challenge the local corrupt status quo! The reason why Jackson was so "big and bold" on Imus, is because he has been completely silent on the most compelling issues confronting poor Black and Hispanic folk in Chicago. Police brutality and corruption, the ethnic cleaning of whole communities, the dismantling of the public school system, etc, etc. Why because Jackson is nothing more than a glorified Chicago Alder-creature. Dailey put him on the pay roll, like all the other poverty pimping preachers too. As long as he keeps his mouth shut locally, his pockets stay swollen with Daily Bread
Sharpton promises to hold the Mayor's office to a zero-tolerance policy regarding police brutality.
Does that also take in white victims? Because this piece of shit is the example of causing segregation. But I could be wrong. He might be in town to search for Lisa Stebic. Rescuing white-suburban women is definitely a leaf turner.
Just what we need, a vicious anti-Semite to tell us how bigoted we are!
I wish I had a suit, and a pompadour that sweet.
You are a sick motherfucker, Chuck.
To my recollection, that photo prompted the Polyester Association of America (PAA) to adopt a new fiber strength standard.
Not to be outdone--or "undone," perhaps--the Button Makers of America (BMA) mandated the inclusion of package inserts outlining increased button-thread fixation.