Al Sharpton

Brother of ’91 Riot Victim Slams Sharpton Advertisers

On Monday, TruthRevolt.org spoke with Norman Rosenbaum, brother of Yankel Rosenbaum, the Orthodox Jew murdered by a mob in Crown Heights in 1991. During the riot, Al Sharpton declared, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

Rosenbaum was killed hours after a tragic accident that left 7-year-old black child Gavin Cato dead. After Rosenbaum’s death, Sharpton led a march through Crown Heights, at which protesters changed “No Justice, No Peace,” and later said in a speech, “All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no coffee klatch, no skinnin’ and grinnin’.”

Now Yankel’s brother, Norman, says that advertisers, MSNBC, and President Obama should be ashamed to be associated with Sharpton. “Any person who does anything to legitimize Al Sharpton is doing a gross disservice to their own integrity, and in terms of Al Sharpton the individual, the greatest concern is they’re legitimizing a fraud and charlatan,” Rosenbaum said from Melbourne, Australia.

He added, “He has never apologized, he has never offered any sincere remorse for the atrocious things he has done by way of terrible racist behavior and lies, for inciting racial events. Anybody who takes a look at that person and wants to spend advertising dollars on him should take a hard look at their moral stance in terms of their position in business, in commerce, and in the community.”

Rosenbaum lashed out at the media and politicians who have legitimized Sharpton. “That is an absolute disgrace, regardless of who it is: business, media, or politician,” said Rosenbaum. “Now he’s the expert on race relations? He’s the expert on nothing, he’s set race relations back decades. What’s he ever done for anybody? Really, by substance, what has he ever done? For MSNBC to be employing him is a sad reflection on them.”

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9 Comments

  • avr

    First of all please take his picture off this site – this is promoting him as well – no one wants to see his face an animal like this should not be on this site PLEASE TAKE HIM OF – he gave us all and especially the Rebbr alot og heart ache to say the least!!!

    shw an wxample and et his face off from here!!

    Thank you

  • long overdue

    its about time they cancel his show.

    if he was white they would be all over this guy

  • Dovid

    Why did he wake up now his show has been around for years. I’ve been watching it for year loy alainuh.

    Norman, why now? Moshiach now!

  • micoel #1

    #1` is 1000 pecent correct Take his picture off this site. we dont want to see this mad man!

    Its about time we have some dignity of our own

  • declasse' intelelctual

    Criminal charges should have been filed against him for provoking a riot back then–but, of course, you cannot do it because they are black and that is why ACORN can doe what it does because it is politically correct to look the other way.

    • Milhouse

      There was no way to charge him, because he wasn’t there and didn’t incite anything; he didn’t arrive until the next day, to get in front of the parade and pretend to be leading it. He’s a poisonous toad, and he certainly did nothing to calm things down in Crown Heights, but he didn’t incite the initial pogrom.

      Even at Freddie’s, where he certainly shared the moral responsibility for what happened, what he did didn’t fit the legal definition of incitement. Incitement means whipping someone up into an emotional frenzy, so that they go out and commit a crime without thinking about it. That doesn’t work if the crime happens hours or days after the supposed incitement; it has to happen immediately, before the perpetrator has had a chance to cool down and think for himself.

    • Milhouse

      That’s why, to convict Charles Price of incitement, it wasn’t enough that they had him on tape shouting “kill the Jews” half an hour before Yankel was killed, and several blocks away. That alone wouldn’t have been incitement, because nothing resulted from it. It was only because they had witnesses who heard he repeat his cry at the scene of the murder, that he was convicted of incitement.