Some liberals have lowered the standards of people of color to a point where "vile behavior" and "beastly acts" are acceptable, said Rev. Al Sharpton.
Real racism is expecting people in a "certain community" not to "do any better" because of lowered expectations, he said in an interview Tuesday referring to the uptick in looting, especially along the West Coast.
"You want criminal justice to be criminal justice, but you do not want to have this kind of bedlam and lawlessness," Sharpton said. “First of all, no one has fought for giving people reforms in terms of how they’re sentenced to bail more than I have, but a guy or a lady stealing a Louis Vuitton bag is not somebody that needs social uplifting. This is somebody that is really causing us more of a problem."
He blamed this bigotry of low expectations on "latte liberals."
"These latte liberals that justify this — this has nothing to do with poverty, this has nothing to do with you couldn’t get a job," Sharpton said. "These are people that can go back in the neighborhoods where a Louis Vuitton bag is not unusual, and they can just fit in many of it for a gag, and they hurt the cause of those who want criminal justice reform. So, at one level, they hurt the store owner. At another level, they hurt us that are trying to get a break in the criminal justice system."
There is a difference between accommodating community needs and "having a standard that's fair for everybody," he said.
"There is nothing progressive about acting like this kind of vile behavior is normal," he added. "To normalize it is to act like certain people of certain communities or certain races, 'We don’t expect you to do no better. Oh, you try to run your wife down or your lady down. That's what y'all do. Let them go.' Rather than having a standard there that’s fair for everybody, but that if you break what’s criminal or not criminal, you pay a price because you victimized that lady and you victimized that community and those children."
From high-end retail stores such as Nordstrom to neighborhood shops such as Target and Walgreens, stores on the West Coast have experienced higher crime rates. San Francisco Mayor London Breed has promised to reform what critics call lax penalties on looting.
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Police violence must still be curtailed, the reverend continued.
"At the same time, that does not give police the right to come and shoot you down like a dog, but you cannot act in a way you feel no matter what I do will be excused because they don’t expect me to do any better because I am not able to do any better," he said. "That is real racism — when you expect people in a certain community in a certain background not to be able to behave other than somebody that is out of control and doesn’t have the mentality to do anything other than beastly acts."
Comment - see the link for the 'Comments; - they accurately label Sharpton for teh race-baiter he is. One comment posted.
- Talk about projection! The bigotry of low expectations is EXACTLY what the left and black leaders have been guilty of for years.
- sharpton accurately describes teh DPST plantation system for Black Peoples that he and teh Democraticommunists party have enforced for Decades!
