The left’s favorite race-baiter, the Rev. Al Sharpton, made a cameo appearance on Fox’s Star in the episode titled “Ghetto Symphony” that aired November 29. Naturally, the current hero of the Black Lives Matter social justice warrior movement, Colin Kaepernick, is name-dropped, too.
Noah Brooks (Luke James) continues to struggle with the death of his best friend, Lucas, at the hands of police. As Black Lives Matter activist Derek (Quincy Brown) films Noah and his friends for his documentary, Sharpton comes on the television in the background. He speaks of the death of Lucas and then compares former NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s stunt of taking a knee during the National Anthem to the sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Noah: What do you want me to say?
Derek: Just talk about him. Who is Lucky Keyes?
Al Sharpton: America, wake up. Noah Brooks' friend, Lucas Keyes, was shot point-blank for reaching for his wallet.
Andy: Hey, it's playing right now.
Sharpton: How many cases do you have to hear? How many times are you going to tell us it was misunderstood? It was based on fear? Colin Kaepernick took a knee protesting hatred. It brings to mind the sit-ins in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. We're trying to get you to understand that this is happening too often and happening over and over again.
Talk about trivializing the Civil Rights Movement. Kaepernick rode the coattails of the Black Lives Matters movement to suit his own lust for publicity. It wasn’t brave or physically risky to simply take a knee on the sidelines during the National Anthem. In the 1960s, that era’s social justice warriors were risking life and limb as they sat and marched for civil rights.
So, spare us the lionizing of an average ex-NFL player as he reaps the reward of the spotlight. Using a cameo appearance by a man known best for the fake Tawana Brawley rape story and inciting riots is doubly lame.
