KILL THE JEW! KILL THE NIGGER! - The Village Voice villagevoice.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from villagevoice.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Al Sharpton’s incitement of anger and violence in the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman case recalls what he did in Crown Heights.
Twenty-two years ago, a tragic car accident in that Brooklyn neighborhood escalated into a pogrom against the Jewish people. The media gives it a politically correct description violence between the area’s blacks and Jews. But the violence was not two-sided, it was an attack on the Jews by the neighborhood’s Caribbean community, fueled in part by Al Sharpton, now an MSNBC host and adviser to President Obama.
Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network has reportedly given him a significant raise and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for trips for him and others.
The Crown Heights Riot of 30 years ago is barely remembered today. One of its primary instigators, Sonny Carson, has been forgotten. My introduction to Carson, once an important figure in Brooklyn politics, came in 1990 when I walked from my home in Victorian Flatbush to Church Avenue.