Dr. Eowyn posted: " shakedown (n.) Another word for
extortion/blackmail, or the obtaining of a good or service through means of
force, threats/intimidation, or abuse of power. A little publicized and
therefore, little known, fact about Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al" Respond
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Companies that finance Al
Sharpton’s race-baiting
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/12/31/companies-that-finance-al-sharptons-race-baiting/>
by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>
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*shakedown
<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shakedown&defid=1286600> (n.) *
*Another word for extortion/blackmail, or the obtaining of a good or
service through means of force, threats/intimidation, or abuse of power.*
[image: Al Sharpton (l); Jesse Jackson (r)]
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Al Sharpton (l); Jesse Jackson (r)
*A little publicized and therefore, little known, fact about Revs. Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton is that both men make their living from extortion
-- shaking down U.S. businesses and corporations.*
The first time I came across that stunning but little-known information was
13 years ago when I still subscribed to *The New Yorker*. In a profile on *Rev.
Jesse Jackson* titled "Man of Faith
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/22/man-of-faith>" in the Oct.
22, 2001 issue of the magazine, Peter J. Boyer wrote on how Jackson *had
built his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition (which brought in $17 million in revenue
in 2000!) by shaking down corporations*, hectoring them for their "economic
apartheid," which is just another expression for "racism." In Boyer's words:
>From the beginning, *Jackson’s economic campaign has been somewhat tenuous
morally*, mainly *because his dealings with business look so much like
shakedowns.* As it happens, a meaningful portion of wealth has been
redistributed in the direction of Jackson himself.... He travels in
limousines and private jets, and he stays in hotel suites when he is away
from his homes in Chicago and Washington. Travel expenses reported by
Jackson last year amounted to more than a half million dollars.
In 2008, *The New York Post* helpfully identified the companies being shaken
down extorted by another con artist reverend, Al Sharpton.
[image: Al Sharpton]
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Isabel Vincent reports for *The New York Post*
<http://nypost.com/2008/06/15/rev-al-soaks-up-boycott-bucks/>, that 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 (NAN)* annual conference in
April 2008.
NAN, which began humbly in Harlem in 1991 with Saturday-morning rallies at
PS 175, now boasts 45 chapters across the country.
*Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or eager to
make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks to NAN and
Sharpton* – who brandishes the buying power of African-American consumers.
In some cases, they hire him as a consultant.
*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 National Action Network "charity."
Here are some examples of Sharpton's successful shakedowns:
*1. General Motors:* A GM spokesman told *The Post* that NAN had repeatedly
– and unsuccessfully – asked for contributions for six years, beginning in
August 2000. Then, *in December 2006, Sharpton threatened to call a boycott
of GM over the closing of an African-American-owned GM dealership in The
Bronx, and he picketed outside GM headquarters on Fifth Avenue. *So GM
buckled under and gave NAN a $5,000 donation in 2007. The next year, GM
gave $5,000 more, a GM spokesman said, calling NAN a “worthy” organization.
*2. DaimlerChrysler:* In November 2003, Sharpton picketed DaimlerChrysler’s
Chicago car show and threatened a boycott over alleged racial bias in car
loans, accusing the carmaker of "institutional racism.” Lo and behold, the
next year Chrysler began supporting NAN’s conferences in May, which include
panels on corporate responsibility and civil rights and a black-tie awards
dinner to honor Martin Luther King Jr. In 2007, Sharpton gave Chrysler an
award for corporate excellence.
*3. Honda:* In 2003, Sharpton targeted American Honda for not hiring enough
African-Americans in management. “We support those that support us,” wrote
Sharpton and the Rev. Horace Sheffield III, president of NAN’s Michigan
chapter, in a letter to American Honda. “We cannot be silent while
African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not
hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant
manner.” Two months after American Honda execs met with Sharpton, the
carmaker began to sponsor NAN’s events – and continues to pay “a modest
amount” each year, a spokesman said.
*4. Hawkins Food Group:* La-Van Hawkins, a partner in Hawkins Food Group
(HFG), which owns and operates fast-food franchises nationwide, said
HFG hired Sharpton as a consultant because the reverend skillfully
persuades CEOs by wielding the statistic that African-Americans spend $738
billion a year. Hawkins said Sharpton's "way of doing things was, ‘If we’re
going to support you and you’re not going to support us, then we have to
focus on telling the African-American community not to spend their
money’.” HFG paid Sharpton an annual $25,000 fee. Hawkins himself had
donated “over $1 million” to NAN. (Hawkins told *The Post* all this from
the Yankton Federal Prison in South Dakota, where he was serving time for
attempted bribery.)
*5. Pepsi: *Sharpton has snagged other gigs as a "consultant." In June
1998, Sharpton threatened to call for a consumer boycott of Pepsi because
the company’s ads did not portray African-Americans. Less than a year
later, Pepsi hired Sharpton as a $25,000-a-year adviser until 2007.
*6. Macy's: *Sharpton made the same complaint against Macy’s in 1998. So
Macy's appointed Sharpton an unpaid "adviser on diversity" but funds NAN’s
annual conference. Macy’s Senior Vice President Ed Goldberg praised
Sharpton as “the kind of guy you can sit down and talk to.”
*7. New York developer Bruce Ratner: *In 2000, Sharpton Ratner for paying
low wages to workers at his Atlantic Mall in Brooklyn. “We will not allow
you to enslave our communities, Mr. Ratner,” Sharpton told a rally. “You
must meet with us – you must come to terms with the poverty you are
creating using public dollars.” By 2004, Ratner's company, Forest City
Ratner, began forking over thousands of dollars to NAN. Sharpton now
strongly supports Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards project, which includes
a new arena for the New Jersey Nets.
*8. MGM Mirage: *In 2001 and 2002, Sharpton vowed to call a national
boycott against MGM Mirage if it refused to meet with him to discuss
alleged racism in hiring and employment at the company’s Detroit casino. In
2003, MGM named NAN one of its diversity “partners” in Detroit.
*9. Wal-Mart: *Since 2005, Wal-Mart has given yearly support to NAN,
including sponsorship of a conference in April 2008, without disclosing the
amounts. In 2006, in a case of the pot calling the kettle black (no pun
intended), Sharpton's rival in shakedown, Jesse Jackson, accused Wal-Mart
of buying silence from critics of its employment practices by trying to
“throw money at us.” So Sharpton rushed to the company’s defense--
“Wal-Mart has in no way tried to persuade me with money,” he declared.
*10. Anheuser-Busch* states on its Web site that it gave NAN “between
$100,000 and $499,000″ in 2007.
*11. Las Vegas casinos:* In 2002, NAN launched a Las Vegas chapter that
solicits corporate and individual donations of up to $5,000 on its Web
site. It’s unclear how much the chapter has raised, because Nevada does not
require charities to report their revenues.
Sharpton, of course, denies pressuring extorting corporations for
cash: “That’s the old shakedown theory that the anti-civil-rights forces
have used against us forever. Why can’t they come up with one company that
says that? No one has criticized me.” He said, “Just because Pepsi and
other companies had me on their board advising them didn’t mean that I
wasn’t blasting them all the time.”
But Peter Flaherty, president of the conservative corporate watchdog
National Legal and Policy Center in Virginia, said, *“I think this is quite
clearly a shakedown operation. He’s [Sharpton] good at harassing people and
making noise. CEOs give him his way because it is a lot easier than
confronting him. *Sharpton went national just like a franchise. Each of
[NAN's] local chapters can now hit up businesses for support in their
communities.”
NAN, a tax-exempt nonprofit, closely guards its corporate largesse. Most
companies also keep the sums secret, and some would not divulge them. The
corporations interviewed by *The Post* say they view their relationships
with NAN as friendly and beneficial.
In 2007, then N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found NAN had failed to
file years’ worth of financial reports. So the group filed more records. In
its 2006 IRS filing, NAN reported about $1 million in contributions and
$1.1 million in expenses and programs. It owes the IRS $1.9 million in
payroll taxes.
Conservative Tribune
<http://conservativetribune.com/list-companies-fund-sharpton/> is asking us
to boycott the companies that have succumbed to Al Sharpton's shakedown
and, in so doing, are directly financing Sharpton's race-baiting. They are:
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Anheuser-Busch
- Macy’s
- Pfizer
- PepsiCo
- General Motors
- Daimler Chrysler
- Wal-Mart
- FedEx
- Johnson & Johnson
- American Honda
- Chase
- Hawkins Food Group
- MGM
H/t Clash Daily
<http://clashdaily.com/2014/12/scallywags-heres-list-companies-fund-sharptons-race-war/>
*~Eowyn*
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