[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 30 (Thursday, March 16, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E333-E334]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


    CONDEMNING THE RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC VIEWS OF THE REVEREND AL 
                                SHARPTON

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                          HON. JOE SCARBOROUGH

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 16, 2000

  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following for printing in 
the Record.

       Whereas the Congress strongly rejects the racist and 
     incendiary actions of the Reverend Al Sharpton;
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has condoned anti-Semitic 
     views in that protesters from the Reverend Sharpton's 
     National Action Network have referred to members of the 
     Jewish faith as ``bloodsucking [J]ews'', and ``Jew 
     bastards'';
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of 
     the Jewish faith as ``white interlopers'' and ``diamond 
     merchants'';
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton was found guilty of 
     defamation by a jury in a New York court arising from the 
     false accusation that former Assistant District Attorney 
     Steven Pagones, who is white, raped and assaulted a fifteen-
     year-old black girl;
       Whereas to this day, the Reverend Al Sharpton has refused 
     to accept responsibility and expresses no regret for defaming 
     Mr. Pagones;
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton's vicious verbal anti-
     Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and 
     in particular, a Jewish landlord, arising from a simple 
     landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant, incited 
     widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent 
     people;
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton's fierce demagoguery 
     incited violence, riots, and murder in the Crown Heights 
     section of Brooklyn, New York, following the accidental death 
     of a black pedestrian child hit by the motorcade of Orthodox 
     Rabbi Menachem Schneerson;
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest in the Crown 
     Heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a 
     sign that read, ``The White Man is the Devil'';
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has insulted members of 
     the Jewish faith by challenging Jews to violence and stating 
     to Jews to ``pin down'', their yarmulkes; and
       Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has practiced the policies 
     of racial division and made inflammatory remarks against 
     whites by characterizing the death of Amadou Diallo as a 
     ``racially motivated police assassination'': Now, therefore, 
     be it
       Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
     concurring), That the Congress--
       (1) condemns the practices of the Reverend Al Sharpton, 
     which seek to divide Americans on the basis of race, 
     ethnicity, and religion;
       (2) expresses its outrage over the violence that has 
     resulted due to the Reverend Al Sharpton's incendiary words 
     and actions; and

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       (3) fervently urges elected officials and public servants, 
     who have condoned and legitimized the Reverend Al Sharpton's 
     incendiary words and actions, to publicly denounce and 
     condemn such racist and anti-Semitic views.

     

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