Al Sharpton Made $1 Million from His Own Nonprofit

Maybe the reason Democrats hate private charity and want the government to handle everything is because Democrats are so bad at charity– and I’m not even talking about the Clinton Foundation.

No, I’m talking about the National Action Network a Harlem-based nonprofit of which Al Sharpton is both CEO and president. The one that paid him $1,046,948 last year, according to NAN’s tax filings.

OVER. A MILLION. DOLLARS. Taken from CHARITY.

Sharpton and NAN’s justification is as laughable and ludicrous as you might well expect.

The Harlem-based nonprofit — which Sharpton controls as president and CEO — said the extra cash was to make up for the years from 2004 to 2017 when he didn’t get his full pay.

NAN said it hired an executive compensation firm that determined the good reverend was owed $1.252 million — but he was generously willing to take $500,000 less.

You don’t go into nonprofits for the paycheck, ya freaking loons. IT’S IN THE BLEEDING NAME.

[sharpton] said he also deserved the 2018 raise.

“It’s a six-day-a-week job and several hours a day and when [the compensation firm] compared it to other companies, other nonprofits, that’s the salary that they would get,” he said.

The firebrand activist and MSNBC host was not exactly earning minimum wage in recent years. The last year he went without a salary was 2008, and he has made well into the six figures every year since, tax documents show.

Right. He deserves the money, because only conservatives who make that kind of money are wealth-hoarding monsters.

Look, I’m all about being paid what you’ve earned, but handing yourself a seven-figure paycheck from a CHARITY when you’re hardly below the poverty line is the most morally dishonest move I’ve seen in a while. As a reverend, as the president and CEO of a nonprofit, you should want to see every cent of that go back into the community.

Pick a lane, Al.