Told Ya So – Opinion

Al Sharpton stunned the media watchers on Monday when he issued a warning to Democrats that their “woke” agenda is pushing away Black voters.

In an interview with Joe Scarborough, the Reverend responded to the host’s complaints about “wokeism” by admitting that Black Americans have other things to worry about right now, something the Democrat Party seems wholly uninterested in.

Scarborough: Let me say it slowly for my Democratic friends in Washington D.C. Black voters are more conservative than you are, white woke leaders in Washington D.C. Hispanic voters are more conservative than you are, white woke leaders in Washington D.C. Asian American voters are more conservative than you are, white woke voters in Washington D.C. and they’re more conservative on crime, they’re more conservative on education, they’re more conservative on ‘these woke issues.’ Get off of Twitter!

Sharpton: They’re losing people of color because they really don’t get the people of color’s life. If you are living in a city neighborhood that is inundated with crime and you act like that is not an issue, you’ve already lost me. This is a problem. Yes, we must deal with policing, I’ve been out front with that. But you cannot ignore when 12-year-old kids, whose somebody’s niece and neighbor’s kid, get killed and you act like that’s a non-issue because you’re too elitist to live on the ground.

It was an unexpected revelation. It is quite possible that even Al Sharpton believes all of this is too much.

His sudden clarity was not what I expected. He’s right, of course, but this falls squarely underneath the umbrella of “too little, too late.”

Conservatives have been warning for years about the dangers of progressive rhetoric and all the hatred it generates. Al Sharpton is a notorious example of this, labeling his ideological enemies as bigots, racists, segregationists and even evil. Conservatives, as well as other rational people, have begged Sharpton’s crowd for a halt to the inflammatory rhetoric. When you make someone “evil” you give “good” people permission to treat evil however they want to. They are allowed to act as hateful or terrible as they wish. There is no moral consequence. This is evil we’re talking about, after all. You can punch any nazi.

But it’s worse than that. All the worst leftist ideas were given shelter by such a threatening and judgmental rhetoric. Because Sharpton’s rage was leveled squarely at the right, and Republicans, and because Sharpton “crowned” Democrats as the only arbiters of truth and justice, he also provided cover for the ideology of the left, which has never, ever, ever aligned with the general ideology of Black America.

Segregation was invented by the Democrats, who then tried to preserve it. Do I need to say anything more?

It took us years to convince Sharpton’s Sharpton-adjacent Democrat supporters that they were supporting an ideology which was fundamentally against everything Black Americans believe, want, and fight for. Sharpton gave Marxists the mask of racial equality, which sealed the fates of the left. It was only a matter of time before the “fringe” became mainstream, and the ideologies of the Sharptons of the world would become not only useless to the left, but an obstacle.

Liberals have a problem now. They’ve “woke” themselves right out of relevance on their own side, and they’ve spent so much time hissing and spitting at “evil Republicans” that there’s no place for them to go now. They let the inmates take over their asylum and they’ve demonized their ideological relatives.

My mother always told me it’s not polite to tell someone, “I told you so.”

But Sharpton left “polite” behind a long time ago, and even though I’ve never met him, I feel confident in saying he doesn’t care about politeness anyway. He’d prefer directness.

So…

We TOLD You So, SO YOU TOLD US SO YOU TOLD ME SO.

Told ya so.

Take a look at yourself. You’re supposed to be a representative for the Black community. Instead, you’re in a position where you have to align with people who want to feminize Black men and turn our little girls into boys. You have to align with people who promote the intentional murders of our babies in the womb, right inside the boundaries of our own communities, and then you have to smile and nod when those people call the culling of Black America in the womb “help.” You have to stand by and cheer and clap as young men push our young women out of athletics, and thus out of college scholarship opportunities — two things that have been traditionally been extremely important to Black Americans.

Take a look. Take a look at the results.

You called us evil and crazy, even though we tried to explain it. Forgive me if I don’t find your message to your ideological cellmates “enlightened.”

This is what you did, Reverend. You should do the least thing you can to clean up all that mess.