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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sharpton-chris-lane-murder-i-protest-when-i-m-called

Sharpton on Chris Lane Murder: ‘I Protest When I’m Called In’
August 23, 2013

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http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2007/10/dear-mr-sharpton.html

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2007
Dear Mr. Sharpton

It's me, Joan, from the Liestoppers blog. Sir, I saw you on a talk show. When asked about the disparity between the reaction to the Jena case and the Duke case, sir, you said "if asked" you would get involved in the Duke case.

So, Mr. Sharpton, I'm asking.

Sir, we need a federal investigation here. We need an engaged media. We need powerful politicans expressing their rage in photo-ops in front of the courthouse. You seem to be able to conjure all this stuff up at will. I'm going to be blunt here. We can't.

Mr. Sharpton, sir, we need you.

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Sir, don't tell the Hooligans I said this, but they just don't seem to have what it takes. Their outrage just doesn't seem to count for anything on the federal or even state level. They have no power base, control no voting block, are nobodies in political terms. Nobody listens to them. Nobody wants to pose with them, put an arm around their collective shoulders, or claim their friendship. Not like they do with you, sir, and Jesse, and your other friends. They are voices crying in a political wilderness. Candidate Edwards couldn't hear them all this time... right there in the next town over. But, gosh, he hears your faintest whisper and shouts out FOR YOU. That Elizabeth Dole has been hard of hearing too. Even though she knew Dave Evans personally, she's been unwilling to claim the um-m-m acquaintance. But if YOU were involved, why, I bet politicos would stand right next to you, call themselves neighbors and dear friends of these fine youths, and eagerly take up the cause.

Sir, you are GOOD. No really. How do you do it? Six black boys in Jena beat up one white boy and politicians are climbing over each other to help those boys out. No one is demanding they apologize to their victim first. The feds are very publicly looking into it, and the Press is uniformly empathetic toward them. Yet, the lacrosse team endured a year because of a hellish, cold-blooded frame, and some Duke professors still spit on the ground and demand THEY apologize for the party. Yet, totally missing from those hallowed halls is any call for an investigation, accountability, or even a mild rebuke of Durham's rogue police department. It wouldn't be like that if YOU took up our cause. You could make a difference.

Maybe, sir, if YOU were involved, Ms. Lubiano would allow Dick Brodhead to pose for a picture and demand the rights our Constitution is supposed to provide for all for ...well...Collin, Reade, and Dave. Maybe your presence would move her beyond her "white innocence means black guilt" problem. Justice is supposed to be color-blind, right, sir? But let's face it. Dick Brodhead can't speak out demanding reform in Durham as he has done..oh, in other countries...unless he has cover with his faculty from someone like you. We understand that. . . We know he would never REFUSE to meet with you. Calling Mr. Brodhead for us would be a good start.

Then, would you please call Ms. Wagoner and tell her you're warming up the buses? Tell her she'd better have the Feds on the way to Durham before you and yours make it into town. They'd be there waving as you arrived. We all know this.

Tell Bob Ashley he'd better have parking for them in front of the Herald-Sun. Call Barry Saunders and tell him to cut the cracks and have a couple hundred fish sandwiches ready for your marchers. Cash Michaels can help you set up a "Durham's Brother Connivers" venting website (he has experience in this). Tell Ruthie Sheehan to get her mojo back and use her column to demand sweeping reform in this corrupted, cave-mentality town.

Sir, flex that power that puts you on any media outlet at will and tell them, the audience, the country at large..that Reverend Al will not stand for a system of justice that supports a willful frame, suppresses the civil rights of three young men, and seriously undermines our faith and our future!!! Tell Them, Sir! Tell them that you will not tolerate leaving a system in place that denied Collin, Reade, and Dave their rights... based on their color and the supposed content of their Daddies' wallets. Inform them that Al...THE Reverend Al Sharpton... is in Durham till ALL people's rights are secured, the system scourged, and the guilty set to pay!

You can do this for us, sir.

You offered. And we accept.

Joan