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Michigan black chief rejects Abdul El Sayed as ‘snake oil’ salesman in undercover video

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A black chief 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 neighborhood.

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 naked the dilemma going through black leaders torn between their aversion toward El-Sayed — and the neighborhood’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 assembly at his historic King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church last Saturday and obtained by The Midwesterner.

Williams spoke in an undercover video exposing his “disdain” for Abdul El-Sayed against expectation he votes blue no matter what. Th_Midwesterner/X

“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 more and more wound up.

“You selling wolf tickets … You will not get that across.”

Williams acknowledged he did not need El-Sayed to win the Democratic main.

“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 main 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 added.

El-Sayed has struggled to win over black voters, a crucial demographic for the Democrats. AFP via Getty Images

Inside the assembly at his West Side Detroit church, Williams made it clear the black neighborhood is lukewarm at finest towards El-Sayed yet would be shamed for voting Republican.

“I know that there is some hesitancy, some skepticism, and there’s some just flat-out disdain for the person who is the senatorial candidate for the Democratic Party,” he said.

“Let’s be very clear, it ain’t just us. … white folks know how abusive the Arab community have been to not just people in Detroit, they do it all over the place. … so we ain’t the only people who had to struggle with this,” Williams added in the assembly with get-out-the-vote volunteers.

Al Sharpton trekked to Detroit this week to get black voters out to vote but didn’t endorse El-Sayed. real_sharpton/Instagram

“Sad to have to paint the brush over Abdul but you know, it’s a sticky situation,” he said.

“I’m educating people to make sure that they go out and vote, but I ain’t going out to tell them to go vote Republican, either,” Williams continued in the video, eliciting a number of “amens” from the crowd. “If they do, that is their prerogative. That is their prerogative.”

“We can’t risk losing the ballot, the entire ballot, because of places where we have some consternation,” he defined, seemingly resigned. “Do what you gotta do. Vote how you gotta — vote how you feel.”

That aversion was on full show Thursday, as El-Sayed spoke at the Historic Second Baptist Church in Benton Harbor.

The crowd that came to hear him — in a neighborhood that is 82% black, according to the newest census — was virtually fully white.

“Crowd looks a bit different,” quipped journalist David Weigel on X.

Sharpton, who trekked to Detroit on Tuesday to meet with Williams and rally get-out-the-vote efforts, stopped quick of endorsing El-Sayed.

El-Sayed’s cringeworthy makes an attempt to relate to the black neighborhood have included this awkward video. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed/X

Charles E. Williams II is National Action Network president for Michigan. therevcw/Instagram

“It’s not whether we’re Democrat or Republican, it’s that we’re going with who’s best for us,” Sharpton said as he rallied black voters in Detroit. 

Reached by cellphone, he wouldn’t remark on El-Sayed, only saying he was in Michigan to encourage the black neighborhood to train their proper to vote.

“They ought to go out and not be in any way hesitant to vote,” he informed The Post, declining to remark on black voters’ considerations about El-Sayed, only including “our efforts are nonpartisan.”

Throughout the marketing campaign, El-Sayed has struggled to win over black voters and confronted criticism he hasn’t engaged with them or addressed their considerations — only making cringe efforts to relate to the crucial voting bloc for Democrats, like during an awkward go to to a barbershop in Grand Rapids.

There’s a 16-percentage-point hole between common Democratic support and support for El-Sayed among Black voters in Michigan, a Washington Post–Schar School ballot discovered in September.

Williams and El-Sayed’s marketing campaign did not return The Post’s request for remark.



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