Michigan black leader rejects El-Sayed as snake oil salesman in undercover video: Just flat-out disdain

A black leader in Michigan — who’s been dubbed Al Sharpton’s “little brother in the movement” — is rejecting Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, blasting the radical candidate as an untrustworthy “snake oil” salesman and saying there’s “flat-out disdain” for him in the community.Charles E.Williams II, Michigan chapter president of Sharpton’s National Action Network, lambasted El-Sayed’s lack of cultural credibility in undercover footage that lays bare the dilemma facing black leaders torn between their aversion toward El-Sayed — and the community’s expectation they vote blue no matter what.“You can’t pluck the heart strings of people selling them all of the pie in the sky, that’s not realistic,” Williams said in a video taken outside a meeting at his historic King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church last Saturday and obtained by The Midwesterner.“You can tell people ‘Medicare for all’ and ‘money out of politics,’ how you going to do it? You ain’t no majorities.

You ain’t got no executive branch.You put together legislation and you’re going to send that to Donald Trump, he going to sign that? No!” he exclaimed.“So you just selling snake oil ….

That’s the real issue that I have with the so-called Democratic Socialists and super progressives anyway,” he went on, getting increasingly wound up.“You selling wolf tickets … You will not get that across.”Williams acknowledged he did not want El-Sayed to win the Democratic primary.“I’ve tried to be cordial to the party and make sure they don’t feel like I’m just completely off the farm or anything, but I’m not really happy … I supported the white lady over him!” he said, referring to El-Sayed’s Democratic primary challenger Haley Stevens.“Him and I have some issues that we have had personally, telling me one thing and then doing another, which is a thing culturally that I have seen, I’ve had to deal with that community,” he adde...