I wonder if they can rebuild The Mistake By The Lake in time for it to be burned down again by the leftwingnut attack on the Republican National Convention. Chicago's 1968 "Days of Rage" were nothing compared to next summer's conflagration.
- Me, nine days ago
See, I told you so:
When Al Sharpton got up to speak at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland on Friday night, he was given a standing ovation. At what was billed as a “justice and reform revival”, attendees, mostly congregants of the church itself, had been primed by several hymns and scriptural invocations. Their pastor, reverend Jawanza Colvin, introduced the civil rights campaigner as “one of God’s trombones”.
Sharpton proceeded to deliver a barn-burning speech that had the assembled on their feet and shouting praise, sometimes drowning out his words. Among them, the crowd was told, were family members of Tamir Rice, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, the three victims of police violence who have been most on the minds of city residents this week....
“If it takes all the breath in my body,” he declared, “they will never stand alone, and we will not be quiet.”
Sharpton called for a voter registration drive and repeatedly pointed out that Ohio is a swing state. He also pointed out that in 2016, the Republican convention will be held in Cleveland. He said he was not so concerned with the mayor of Cleveland, Frank Jackson – a Democrat – as he was with presumed GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Scott Walker.
He said he had not come to Cleveland for a “black on black fight” but instead had those “bigger fish to fry”. [emphasis added]
To quote Joe Biden, "Literally".
I hope Reince Priebus is stocking up on aloe, flame retardant, barricades, and plenty of legal representation for the CPD, because there will be an acute need for "police brutality" in a scant 413 days.
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