GOODY TWO-SHOES: Al Sharpton: Still Race-Baiting After All These Years
The Associated Press reports that 20 years after the 1989 murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a white mob in Bensonhurst, the Rev. Al Sharpton joined the victim’s family and friends at the Brooklyn cemetery where he is buried:
Sharpton led the procession of about 40 people, on a gently winding dirt road, past hundreds of crypts and tomb stones until they arrived at Hawkins' grave, under the shade of a tall tree.
"People talk about the civil movement in the South but there was a significant movement in the North," Sharpton said on Sunday. "It started in 1989 with Yusuf Hawkins."
Hawkins was just 16 years old when he was shot twice in the chest on Aug. 23, 1989 in the mostly white Brooklyn neighborhood … He and three black friends were there to look at a used car that was for sale. About 30 whites, armed with at least one gun, bats and golf clubs, chased the four and surrounded them.
Two years from now will mark the 20th anniversary of the murder of Jewish rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum during the Crown Heights riot – which Sharpton helped instigate:
The Crown Heights Riot began on August 19, 1991, after a car driven by a Jewish man, and part of a procession led by an unmarked police car, went through an intersection and was struck by another vehicle causing it to veer onto the sidewalk where it accidentally struck and killed a seven-year-old Guyanese boy named Gavin Cato and severely injured his cousin Angela. …
Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting student from Australia, was stabbed and killed by a member of a mob shouting "Kill the Jew." Sharpton, who arranged a rally in Crown Heights after Cato's death, has been seen by some commentators as inflaming tensions by making remarks that included "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house" and referring to Jews as "diamond merchants."
Sharpton marched through Crown Heights and in front of "770", shortly after the riot, with about 400 protesters (who chanted "Whose streets? Our streets!" and "No justice, no peace!").
The Stiletto will have to wait another two years to learn how Sharpton plans to commemorate Rosenbaum’s murder, seeing as how he protested civil rights charges being brought against his killer.
Update: None of the three NY dailies mentioned Yankel Rosenbaum’s murder by a black mob – which occurred almost two years to the day after Hawkins’ murder by a white mob – nor Sharpton’s involvement in both tragedies: “Kin Mourn Slain Teen Yusuf Hawkins 20 Years After Attack” (Daily News); “The Death Of Yusuf Hawkins, 20 Years Later” (Times); and “Race Murder Remembered” (Post).
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