The issue with Al Sharpton if one is to ever understand his point of view is to view his world through his skil set (which is narrowly deficient).
Rather than focus on what he says and his actions, you must delve inside the thought processes of how his mind works AND what he says does make sense to him and his followers.
Their are injustices everyday in the black community but he has no tools to address the problems, actually he is quite powerless to make change or improvements except by exhorting dollars from any available source.
Point being, rather than rally around like minded Sharpton detractors (which accomplishs nothing) the key is to know Al.
Typical, Sharpton can say and do anything he pleases, you just need to have the liberal power to see into him and see what the liberals say is there. He can spew racial hate all day long, but Al really needs a hug.
When the hell are you lefties going to grow up and treat all races equally? It's quite condescending of you to call black people powerless, and that they be given a pass on spewing bigotry. You prevent them from taking the steps necessary to better their lives when you and the poverty pimps call them powerless. So they can't finish high school because of white injustice? They have a teen pregnancy and out of wedlock birthrate of 70% because they are powerless against white injustice? That's bullshit, weak-minded self-defeating liberal bullshit.
Injustices my ass, asians fight to get into this place and do quite well. Mexicans risk their life to get here, yet somehow the brother can't make a living. Liberals have convinced blacks that they can't make it until some liberal fantasy land is created where all white 'injustices' (as only they define them), have been recompensed and blacks can feel good about themselves. The flaws with Black culture are minimized.
Incidentally, I find it quite curious how traders are supposed to be people who have expunged themselves of destructive emotion. White guilt is destructive, it's what allows Blacks to not be held up to standard and then some psycho babble is offered as reason. Blacks in turn fulfill their expectation of this.
What if you convinced a trader that the 'system' is rigged against him, and you told him that blaming everyone but himself was not only ok but that it is useful to institutionalize the complaining and victimization? That his failures are the product of history outside his control? The chances of success for that guy are 0.