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How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations
- debacle 12y agoI have been thinking about this lately. I have a Russian friend who tells me all the time that Americans have no understanding of the value of social capital. It's clear that Al Sharpton does.
- cpncrunch 12y agoI think most Americans just realise that relying on social capital (aka cronyism, handouts, blackmail and bribes) is a very shitty way to run business. I've just finished reading Jim Spilsbury's Accidental Airline, and the amount of cronyism back in the 50s in Canada was astounding. These days things are a lot better. I guess Russia still has a long way to go, given that they only started using capitalism a couple of decades ago.
- debacle 12y agoI don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think there's a lot of room for profitability in the social capital space if you were a relatively morality-unencumbered startup.
- theorique 12y agoWhat an awful human being. After the Tawana Brawley and Duke Lacrosse hoaxes, it's a wonder that anyone still takes him seriously.
- xacaxulu 12y agoLuckily for all of us, the Durham County District Attorney in the Duke case named Mike Nifong, was found to have lied to the court and had withheld evidence which would have exonerated the poor accused lads much sooner. For brandishing his own personal form of social justice, Nifong was disgraced and disbarred and shortly thereafter, went bankrupt. It's a shame that even with the tax evasion issues and outright lies that Sharpton has built his career on, he's still on the Whitehouse guest list. It says a lot about our current political climate.