Recently Fox television host Bill O’Reilly took a shot at Al Sharpton for signing a book deal with Cash Money Records. He said, ” . . . in business with people who put out entertainment that his harmful to children . . . The fact is, Al Sharpton is allowing a company that harms black children to distribute his book.” Well recently Tamika D. Mallory, executive director of Sharpton’s National Action Network, wrote The Huffington Post, “As National Executive Director of National Action Network (NAN) and head of the Decency Initiative, I find it a blatant contradiction that Bill O’Reilly would question our President, Rev. Al Sharpton writing a book on the evolution of his principles and ideas, detailing among other things why he is against certain lyrics in hip-hop and has stopped himself from using specific words.”
She added, “Being published by Simon & Schuster in a joint venture with the parent company Cash Money Content, which itself has a relationship with the parent company of Cash Money Records, I find Mr. O’Reilly’s assertions a contradiction because I sit on the Diversity Council of News Corp that owns Fox News and the New York Post in the seat designated for National Action Network. Both of these media are frequent, consistent critics of Rev. Sharpton and NAN, and have done things that many of us disagree with in terms of aspirations of the Black community.”
Sharpton’s book, The Rejected Stone, is due out on October 8th. (Pulse of Radio)
