A fissure has formed in the protester class.

On one side is the group that wants street confrontations with police and capitalists. On the other is one that prefers grand speeches, TV lights and rubbing elbows with politicians.

The former are making it perfectly clear what they think of the latter: “F*ck Sharpton,” Capital New York quotes them saying.

Sharpton responded at a recent National Action Network meeting, saying what he thinks his opponents are doing.

“I’ve been meeting with them and talking with them since. And they were told, ‘Your problem is Al Sharpton and the other guys.’ Anytime you have movements, whether it’s in Ferguson, whether it’s in New York, whether it’s in Denver, wherever it is, when they got you more angry at your parents then they got you at the vote you’re supposed to be out there for, you’re being tricked and you’re trying to turn the community into tricks. And they are pimping you, to do the Willie Lynch in our community.”

He didn’t expound upon who “they” are.

Willie Lynch was a slave owner who sought to keep black people divided.

He continued, according to the news site:

“How you going to be more mad at folk that are marching for the same cause then you are against the folks y’all are marching against? Don’t you see a trick in there?” Sharpton asked.

“And why they got y’all arguing about old or young in Ferguson, they running an election and y’all ain’t got a candidate in the race. Cause you’re busy arguing with your mommy and daddy when they re-electing a mayor, and re-electing a prosecutor. They got you arguing about who going to lead a march—the old or the young—when they cutting up the city budget. You can’t be that stupid! You more worried about who going to lead [National Action Network] than who going to be the governor with a multi-billion dollar budget that you got to pay state tax in. You can’t be that stupid.

Sharpton added, “It’s the disconnect that is the strategy to break the movement. And they play on your ego. ‘Oh, you young and hip, you’re full of fire. You’re the new face.’ All the stuff that they know will titillate your ears. That’s what a pimp says to a ho.”

Capital New York reports Sharpton’s remarks were met with “In New York, specifically in the majority of the work happening in the last year, Sharpton’s brand is largely seen as destructive at worst– irrelevant at best,” says Josmar Trujillo, founder of the group New Yorkers Against Bratton.

“This city voted in a self described ‘progressive’ mayor and city council, only to have Rudy Giuliani’s police commissioner, Bratton, return to power. And who opened their doors to welcome him back? Al Sharpton and NAN.”

Given revelations about Sharpton’s tax problems and cozying up to big corporations, having the younger, more energetic crowd turning on him is not a good sign for his future.