Responses were many on my writing, “Why Don’t Jews Have an Al Sharpton.” People pointed out that the Jews have their own share of Sharpton’s, between others Dove Hikind, Abe Foxman, and a host of Jewish groups that represent and defend Jews.
I have no problem with groups representing or defending the rights of Blacks, Hispanics or Jews. However the fact that the responses to my initial writing listed a few Jewish names and groups proves my very point: people think of a half a dozen Jewish names that might fit Sharpton’s shoes, instead of everyone thinking of the same one name, like it is with Sharpton in context of the Black community.
Number two: Hikind and the others do not have the clout that Sharpton has to make political and media figures jump, which proves that none of them are a Sharpton.
Number three: Take a poll of the general US population. You will likely find that for every person that knows the name Hikind or Foxman, ten times more people know Sharpton. So at the end of the day, for whatever positive or negative reasons, Jews do not have an Al Sharpton.
The best reply to my writing was the following (it was posted on a different website):
“Opinion: Why We Blacks Don’t Have a Bernie Madoff
by Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr.
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