Taxpayer-funded Medgar Evers College, a CUNY school in the middle of Crown Heights, is planning to bestow an honorary doctorate on Al Sharpton, the man many say inflamed tensions during the bloody 1991 race riots in the Brooklyn neighborhood, the NY Post reported.
The college, in a resolution to go before a committee Monday, says it wants to recognize Sharpton’s “unwavering commitment to racial, educational and socioeconomic equity” at its June 5 commencement.
The degree would come nearly 28 years after Sharpton played a key role in the days of violence that rocked Crown Heights.
The turmoil began on Aug. 19, 1991, after 7-year-old Gavin Cato, who was black, was accidentally struck and killed by the motorcade of the Rebbe.
Within hours, Lubavitcher Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, was set upon by an angry mob reportedly shouting “Kill the Jew,” and stabbed to death.
Sharpton arrived on the scene a day after Cato’s death, spoke at rallies and, despite pleas from then-Mayor David Dinkins to restore calm, organized a march of hundreds through the Hasidic section of Crown Heights on the Jewish sabbath. Some 400 protestors chanted “No justice, no peace” as they filed past the Lubavitch headquarters surrounded by cops.
At Cato’s funeral, Sharpton eulogized the boy, saying he was killed by “the social accident of apartheid.” He referred to Jews as diamond merchants and did not mark Rosenbaum’s death.
In four days of clashes, looting and fires, an estimated 152 police officers and 38 civilians were injured, 27 police cars damaged, and dozens of businesses trashed.
Medgar Evers College, in a resolution obtained by The Post attached to the proposed degree, does make note of 1991 as a key year in Sharpton’s history, but makes no mention of the riots, the NY Post reported.
Instead, it recalls Sharpton founding the National Acton Network that year to “increase voter education, provide services to those in poverty, uphold police accountability, and support small community businesses.”
I am deeply disturbed by and strongly oppose @NewsatMedgar plan to bestow Rev. Al Sharpton with a honorary doctorate. He played a lead role in a modern day blood-libel against the Jewish community of CH. Sharpton never apologized to his victims or to the community.
— Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) April 14, 2019
He incited riot with radical speeches. My dear father was attacked by a mob coming from a Sharpton rally at the police station. They throw bricks at their car. I remember my mother on the phone with local law enforcement fearing for his life.
— Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) April 14, 2019
This Sharpton Character is not only a Jew Hater, but it is well documented on how he torments his only fellow black people. It was posted a couple of years ago, that he rented office space from a black landlord, and he never paid him rent for a very long period of time. The landlord suffered from lack of funds, while this Sharpton person took total advantage of him! He is a criminal with a halo on his head, he loves attention from the media, and he will do anything to incite and spew hate on the yidden, while stepping… Read more »
I fully recall the 1991 pogrom and went down to help protect the yidden from crown heights. It was also about twenty plus years ago when in Boro Park the police killed an unstable fellow Gideon Bush who held a small hammer with twelve shots. The next day sharpthon wanted to come to the site on 16 ave and 46 st. I waited there and when he arrived in a mini van I got about 25 chassidisha fifteen year old kids to surround his van and led them in a chant Anti Semite go home. Police of course surrounded his… Read more »
What is so surprising about this?
IT IS BEYOND ANY CONCEPT OF RATIONALITY THAT A PUBLICLY FUNDED INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, LET ALONE ONE THAT IS BASED IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE HE PERPETRATED NUMEROUS NEFARIOUS ACTS OF RACIAL VIOLENCE, WOULD ENTERTAIN THE IDEA OF AWARDING THIS HATE MONGER A DEGREE. HE INSTIGATED, ORGANIZED, AND LED VEHEMENT MOBS THAT MARCHED THRU CROWN HEIGHTS SHOUTING ” KILL THE JEWS”. HE STOKED THE FLAMES OF VIOLENCE THAT CAUSED THE WORST ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AT A SECRET MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE IN HARLEM WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS, HE TRIED TO SHAKE US DOWN FOR FUNDS FOR HIS SO… Read more »
he can’t talk properly and gets a doctorate talk about college scam i thought there was only white privlige