Credibility Gap?

How can one believe a person who fails to pay his taxes but works constantly at self-publicity?  Like this fellow.  He has a long history of rushing to the front of events and proclaiming himself the leader of protesters against racist — or potentially racist — acts.  The New York Times exposed him recently, but he sloughed it off and continued on his way.  One wonders why he hasn’t been brought up on charges other than a fear among authorities that he would claim them to be racial.  He is a person who sees everything through a racial microscope.  It is a hard way to live because even the smallest slight is blown out of proportion.  The African-American community hasn’t been well-served by him, but he is a fact that authorities have to deal with.  Nonetheless, he gives self-publicity a bad name.