ALERT: Here’s the List of Companies Who Fund Al Sharpton’s Race War Hey, race-baiting doesn’t come cheaply. The Rev. Al Sharpton is living proof of that. It’s become widely known that the Rev and his National Action Network are millions in debt, with Sharpton giving personal loans to NAN to keep it afloat. Because of that, he’s had to turn to the same evil big corporations he claims to be fighting against. Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records reviewed by The New York Times show Mr. Sharpton has more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses. Yet what action is the IRS taking against him? None. And though he said in recent interviews that he was paying both down, his balance with the state, at least, has actually grown in recent years. His National Action Network appears to have been sustained for years by not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees. With the tax liability outstanding, Mr. Sharpton traveled first class and collected a sizable salary, the kind of practice by nonprofit groups that the United States Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration recently characterized as “abusive,” or “potentially criminal” if the failure to turn over or collect taxes is willful. Mr. Sharpton and the National Action Network have repeatedly failed to pay travel agencies, hotels and landlords. He has leaned on the generosity of friends and sometimes even the organization, intermingling its finances with his own to cover his daughters’ private school tuition. companies According to a report in The New York Post, Rev. Sharpton reps more sponsors than your average stock car driver. And while they may not be emblazoned on the side of his car, they’re key to keeping his traveling circus of racial hatred going. And the “donations” often seem a bit more like protection money. Take, for instance, the case of General Motors. According to a GM employee, NAN had approached the automaker for contributions on numerous occasions starting in 2000. In 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the closure of a dealership in Harlem that was African-American owned. GM’s been giving to NAN for the last two years, during which time it’s been in the good graces of the Rev. Sharpton was more explicit in a letter to American Honda. “We support those that support us,” wrote Sharpton and the Rev. Horace Sheffield III in a letter to the corporation. “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.” Nice car company you have there, Mr. Honda. It would be a shame if anything were to … happen to it. American Honda met with Sharpton soon afterwards, and began sponsoring NAN events with “a modest sum” every year. “I think this is quite clearly a shakedown operation,” Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center, told The New York Post. “He’s good at harassing people and making noise. CEOs give him his way because it is a lot easier than confronting him.” Here is a list of some of the companies that support the Rev: Colgate-Palmolive Anheuser-Busch Macy’s Pfizer PepsiCo General Motors Daimler Chrysler Wal-Mart FedEx Johnson & Johnson American Honda Chase Hawkins Food Group MGM Let’s boycott them and show them what we think about their support of racial division. \|||/ (@@) ooO_(_ )_Ooo
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:12:45 +0000
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