File this under "who cares." Seems cantankerous old talk jock Imus is in hot water for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos."
This is Imus. He calls people names all the time -- even people he likes. But, Al Sharpton is demanding an apology and that Imus be fired. Imus is going on Sharpton's syndicated radio show today, which means probably nobody will hear the apology.
What galls me is that Al Sharpton is the LAST person to demand an apology for other people's remarks. At least nobody died. Sharpton can't make that claim.
He has made his name and his fame as the one to lead a protest movement after every racially charged incident in New York over the last 30 years (and many elsewhere in the U.S.) Especially early in his career, he seemed eager to inflame racial hatreds at the risk of violence as long as it gave him publicity and power (and money. There is always money).
In 1987, black teenager Tawana Brawley claimed that six white law enforcement officers -- including then-assistant district attorney Steven Pagones -- had abducted and raped her, scrawled racial insults on her body and smeared her with feces. Sharpton compared then-state Attorney General Robert Abrams, a Jew, to Adolf Hitler. He also linked then-Gov. Mario Cuomo to organized crime and the Ku Klux Klan. Within a year, a grand jury announced the story was a hoax and specifically cleared a Fishkill police officer and Pagones. Pagones sued Sharpton and two advisers for more than $150 million for defamation. He was recklessly willing to use information he knew was very shaky to make his political point.
His inflammatory remarks were also responsible for sparking the Crown Heights riot of 1991, and a 1995 arson attack on a Jewish Harlem jeweler that resulted in 8 deaths. That attack came months after Sharpton made remarks about the "white interloper."
This guy, who has been hustling people since he was a seven-year-old preacher, should be in jail, not holding himself up as the conscience of the civil rights movement.
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The word, "racist" is most often used to describe white discrimination of blacks. When it's the other way around, it is called "reverse discrimination", but that is incorrect. Reverse discrimination by definition, would imply there is no discrimination.
Al Sharpton, who discriminates against anyone who isn't black, is a racist.
When has Sharpton (or Jesse Jackson)ever done anything that actually helped anyone except themselves? It never ceases to amaze me how they get away with the things that they say and do. They are practically Kennedys! How can anyone NOT notice that while they claim to work to abolish racism, EVERYTHING they do is designed to perpetuate it. I guess you can just call it "job security".
Oh, btw, nice new Lone Ranger pic. Very cool.
That picture is from the new Lone Ranger comic book series -- or I should say, graphic novel. That means they're 30 times more expensive than the ones I used to buy as a kid and have half the number of pages -- if that. Whatta scam comics have become.
How a guy could continue to have any career in the public eye after that Brawley stunt is just amazing! So glad you brought that up because so many have forgotten. He only way he has legitimacy is that the media turns on their cameras whenever he fires up his act.
Oh, I forgot. This Imus thing reminds me of what happened in San Francisco a couple years ago.
http://ugleenakedguy.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html
San Francisco would be my favorite city -- if it weren't for all those San Franciscans.
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