Byron Allen to Comcast: Just Give Sharpton $50K and a Bucket of Chicken

‘Comcast don’t do business with real African-American-owned companies, just give him [Sharpton] $50,000 and a bucket of chicken and we’re good’

Byron Allen to Comcast: Just Give Sharpton $50K and a Bucket of Chicken (Mediaite)

As you may have heard, Allen and other black media owners are suing Comcast and Time Warner Cable for $20 billion on grounds of discrimination. So here was a national TV audience moment for him this morning, a moment when Allen had an opportunity to land a haymaker to Sharpton on CNN’sReliable Sources and advance his argument in the court of public opinion. But instead of simply stating that Sharpton is being used for cover by Comcast and TWC by employing him and providing him a national platform, Allen just had to needlessly go down a racial path… the kind of unforced error that creates the kind of sound bite which completely distracts and discredits an otherwise valid argument. The quote [emphasis mine]:

[Comcast] don’t do business with real African-American-owned companies, just give him [Sharpton] $50,000 and a bucket of chicken and we’re good.

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