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On 5/16/13 1:53 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2013 12:18:48 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

In article ,
says...

Anheuser-Busch gave him six figures, Colgate-Palmolive shelled out
$50,000 and Macy's and Pfizer have contributed thousands to the Rev.
Al Sharpton's charity.

Almost 50 companies - including PepsiCo, General Motors, Wal-Mart,
FedEx, Continental Airlines, Johnson & Johnson and Chase - and some
labor unions sponsored Sharpton's National Action Network annual
conference in April.

Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or
eager to make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks,
critics say, to NAN and Sharpton - who brandishes the buying power of
African-American consumers. In some cases, they hire him as a
consultant.

The cash flows even as the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn has been
conducting a grand-jury investigation of NAN's finances.

There are corporations upon corporations donating to causes much more
than Sharptons. Are they all crooks? Red Cross? United Way? Muscular
Dystrophy? Alzheimer's Foundation?

As usual, you miss the point. The donors are not crooks but they are
blackmailed into donating so as not to be declared racist by a guy who
used those unfounded claims to make a living for 3 decades.

Blackmail? Is PsychoSnotty involved?