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- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -9/+278I love how everyone in the media is talking about how much of a racist he is, but next week when Tom Cruise picks his nose or Brittany Spears gets out of rehab, no one will remember. The black community needs to unite to bring this guy down because he does nothing but fuel religious hate and make them look bad. When i saw him at the Duke LaCrosse players trial last year along side the Black Panthers I though, "Wow, society just took a few steps back.", and his display this week really didn't do much except make people hate him (not because he's black, but because he's a bad person).
- xl22k, on 10/12/2007, -14/+180I have no distain for black people at all, many of my friends are black and they are no different from me. However, I do HATE Al Sharpton because he is simply a black supremicist and gets away with it because he leans back on what happened to his ancestors in the past.
The goal of the civil rights movement was to make everyone equal. By having blacks be able to call each others ni**ers and then some guy like Sharpton getting on a white person for doing it (Richards), is not equal at all. Making a white guy appologize and ultimately get fired, when he attacks some lacrosse players for something they probably didn't do, that's not right.
Now don't get me wrong, there are some cases where he (or rather, a more moderate member of the black community) should speak out about somethings, such as with Abner Louima case; however he can't nitpick at every work everyone says. This is America, where unfrotunately he has the right to say almost anything he wants to; and he should let other people say what they want without organizing the masses to get that person fired from their livlihood.
And one other thing, Sharpton basically took MILLIONS of dollars away from needy kids when he demanded Don Imus get fired during his fundraiser week. At the least, he could have supported the kids and encouraged people to still make donations and encouraged CBS to keep Imus on the air until his fundraiser was over (note: I DO NOT like Imus, but on this issue, I do take his side for the most part). This shows Sharpton is out for only himself and his black supremicist goals. - jbrou31, on 10/12/2007, -5/+127I am black and I hate Al Sharpton. He has turned the NAACP into an organization promoting equal rights to one that is out of control.
By the way, I hate being called African American. I am black. I have a "white" friend that was born in South Africa. He is a true African American. I have Native American and French roots, yet I am classified as African American, how about just American??. According to science, if the human race began in Africa, shouldn't we all be African American?? - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+112@gutterbumber:
That's because racism based on skin color is obsolete, old fashioned. Today's predominate racism isn't, therefore, racism -- it's prejudice. Prejudice against "black culture," that is, prejudice against the urban ghetto culture. While white people, asian people, and any other people can belong to the 'urban ghetto' culture, the culture is predominately known as black, and it's predominately black people that associate themselves with it.
And the reason that prejudice exists against this 'black culture' is because it is powered by fear of the uneducated, violent, racist, victim-mentality that is this 'black culture'. It would help if the African American civil rights leaders didn't praise this ghetto culture as 'black culture,' it would help if the African American communities stopped endorsing this mass uneducated, violent ignorance and stopped being proud of being part of it, and it would help if the African American community stopped calling those who speak out against said culture, such as Bill Cosby, "non-black."
Unfortunately, none of this is going to stop any time soon because any time someone points this out, they're labeled as a racist. And that's also why in cases like New Orleans, where damn near everyone who lived there was part of this ghetto culture, everyone expected and demanded that the government and the people cater to them and they expected not to have to do anything for themselves. And when all hell broke loose and looting and anarchy took over, they blamed everyone but themselves because, after all, they have been told their whole lives that they are victims.
Unfortunately, for those African Americans that choose not to be part of the abhorrent culture and choose to be educated, peaceful, and realize that if they want to get somewhere in life they have to work for it like everyone else, the 'black culture' label sticks with them, simply because of their skin color. But it's not their skin color that people hate, it's the assumption that they're part of the ghetto culture, which has been labeled 'black culture', that people hate. - unibomber999, on 10/12/2007, -6/+110Give him some credit, he's a MASTER race baiter.
- SIDSI, on 10/12/2007, -7/+74Its no secret that Al Sharpton is a racist hypocrite, its just that no one in the major media calls him out for it.
- Cutkomp, on 10/12/2007, -11/+67Everytime I hear his name I cannot help but think of the Sharpton Shakedown.
- orelses, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50We need to email shows such as Hardball and tell them we are no longer interested in seeing or hearing Sharpton as a guest.
- aradorn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+49Booker T. Washington has a great quote about people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington - ShBm, on 10/12/2007, -8/+46A lot of people aren't total ***** douche bags with a lot of social clout who never apologize for anything, no matter how serious it is.
- sfpfc, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45Good Job Al, you made someone lose their job while at the same time hurting the cause (great thinking)
http://digg.com/politics/Lets_BOYCOTT_al_sharpton_s_sponsors - minorthreat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43yes, I can see this now.. a black man runs over a white girl by accident. We have a white reverend leading a mob of white folks down the streets holding up signs saying the black man is the devil... First of all, I'm not religious, but what kind of religious person would organize this type of behavior. Second, if its not racism when a black crowd does it, it shouldn't be racism if a white crowd does it.
This is all stemming from the Imus inncident. Everyone has an opinion on what should happen to Imus, but I bet 99% of people didn't actually hear him say it and they have no idea how it was used in context. - ntwrkguy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+46it's not getting sad. it's about time sharpton gets recognized for being the instigating schvartze he really is. hopefully he dies in one of his many arsonist fires at his "national action network" headquarters..
- morel42, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38
Al Sharpton just continues to encorage the "victim mentality" among black people.. - aresef, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Yeah, not all African-Americans are black, nor vice versa.
- fluidfoundation, on 10/12/2007, -9/+39Hey, here's a novel idea.
*** Put the ***** gauntlets down ****. They say they want to stop "whitey" having such distaste for the "black culture", well what reason do we have? Everything we do is wrong and offensive, just be nature of being part of the "white culture". So damned if we do or damned if we dont. Why not grow up a bit and make peace? Show you're more mature, right?
I dont have a problem with the "black culture". I have a problem with the "victem culture".
This country is so messed up because it used to be that if you had something holding you back in life, you strived to overcome it and not use it as an excuse. That makes a real person, a real individual. Now, people give you every excuse in the world to not move forward with your life. "Oh, your black." "oh, your white and its just reverse discrimination" "oh you're gay and they wont accept you".
Why not just say for once "screw the world, I'm not going to have someone else carry my flag for me, I'm going to do it myself" ??
Too much to ask, i guess. - cooterthekid, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32Sharpton single handedly holds back an entire race, good for him!
- fluidfoundation, on 10/12/2007, -7/+33Its pathetic how Al and Louis are now the spokesmen for race relations.
Just more of the pot calling the kettle black. No pun intended. - loki440, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28@retardojesus
Well I actually am black and I think Al Sharpton sucks. Oh and I also think your little experiment sucks. - omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27It's gotten to the point that I'm afraid to say the word "black" because I might be labeled a racist. I usually refer to black people as African Americans just because I don't want to get my ass beaten by someone who thinks Jesse Jackson is an upstanding representative of the black culture in America.
For the record, I'm not afraid to say "hispanic" or "white" or "asian", because it seems to me that the public figures of those ethnicities haven't caused so much fuss over those words. If you say that someone's black, and you're white, you better be ready to accept whatever's coming your way. - orelses, on 10/12/2007, -14/+37"I dont have a problem with the "black culture". I have a problem with the "victem culture". "
CAN I GET AN AMEN!!! - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26'Why don't u think Don Imus should be held accountable?"
Why do you think that not liking Al Sharpton automatically means you support Don Imus or Michael Richards? Why am *I* a bigot because I don't like a famous bigot who happens to be black? Do black people get immunity from being racist because their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents were slaves? I've said this before, but society needs to dispense with the "my ancestors went through hard times so that means no one can call me out for being a jackass" attitude fast.
That said, as a Scottish-American, I demand reparations from the British government! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+34I am black and I think Al Sharpton sucks
- caliyankee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27Hey "Reverend" Al, where's your church? Where is the building that supports all the positive work you do for the community? You know, the reason you haven't been paying taxes all these years? Oh, right...
- ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Everyone once and a while interviewers in the media do call him, and also Jesse Jackson, out on it... but as always and on cue, they step around the question and then go into an incomprehensible rant about something completely off topic. No one ever follows up the initial question with, "Yeah that's great and all, but has nothing to do with why you still haven't apologized for..." or "Perfect, but you still haven't answered my question. Don't you consider yourself a hypocrite?"
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -12/+33Al Sharpton is to blacks what the Grand Dragon of the KKK is to whites.
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Al Sharpton incites racism under the banner of fighting it.
- holzp, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Racial Arsonist
- raoulduke87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18So, I'm a second generation Irish-American. My ancestors couldn't work in this country. There were actually signs up saying "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish". Should I demand payment from the U.S. government? Should I lose my ***** cool every time I see a Lucky Charms commercial? No, because I refer to myself as a mick, and think that stereotype is funny because I've seen it play out so many times in my family for real. Because it doesn't affect me anymore. Because its over.
What about the Japanese who were held in American internment camps during World War II? Should they be entitled to the same pussyfooting sensitivity demanded by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for the black community? Should they still rail at everyone who doesn't know the difference between a Chinese person and a Japanese person? No. And for the most part, they don't. Why? Because World War II is over and the Japanese aren't mistreated in this country anymore. Its over.
So, if I don't get reparations for the U.S. government drafting Irish immigrants who couldn't find work and were drafted into the Union Army (when many weren't even full American citizens) and if the people of Japanese descent don't get reparations for interment camps, why should blacks be treated any differently? Where is the justice in that? This is why Al Sharpton IS a black supremacist, because he demands that blacks get special treatment just because its owed to them because of their struggle. Well, I'm sorry, but we all struggle sometimes and history doesn't always come out as a wash. Deal with your situation and try a better your life. Don't point fingers.
And yes... I vote Democrat. - JeffWeakley, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Thank you Larry Elder for the history lesson and some perspective.
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17You can't. You are "racist" if you call him out.... because he's black, well unless you are black too.
- manifestdata, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Someone please get ***** a tissue, all his whining and crying is not allowing him to see the big picture.
- connor2k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19I am not black and I hate him.
- loki440, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I really hate the fact that no one in the media has the courage to take this guy on. Sharpton doesn't speak for black people. When was the last time you heard a black person extolling the virtues of Al Sharpton? In fact when was the last time you heard ANYONE saying something good about him?
I saw Sharpton on O'Reilly's show and HE wouldn't even take him on. What's the ***** world coming to when a douchebag like O'Reilly won't take on a douchebag like Sharpton? I thought O'Reilly lived for those type of confrontations. - NYCowboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I think Al Sharpton is an embarrassment to the black community
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20Someone call Strom!
- geomon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17@joeyg50
You're right. I would have given my kids a case of the red ass if they had said what Imus had said about these women.
Unfortunately, I would have had to turn down the television where the Elite 8 rappers are *singing* worse things about each other so that I could get my message across.
There is a double standard here. Where was Sharpton and Jackson's boycott of the latest rap records demeaning lyrics of black and other women of color?
Or is this just "get whitey"? - seanc6610, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Larry Elder, who wrote this article, IS a black man. His picture is on top of the website. That's probably my favorite part about this article, that black people are pointing out Sharpton's flaws and problems
- xl22k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16@gutterbumber
"As soon as someone says "Some of my best friends are black..." expect a racist tirade."
I never said some of my best friends are black. I said "many of my friends are black." My best friends have in fact been white - not because of their skin color but because they have been the people I've come to have the most common interests with. I have nothing to hide there and that statement certainly was not the opening of a racist tirade.
And if you took the time to read what I wrote rather than just basing a conclusion on the first thing you read, I think you'll see it was not at all a racist tirade but rather a bashing of Al Sharpton and his hipocracy. I do think that there are still times when black people still get the short end of the stick, and I don't think anyone will disagree, but the voice of the black community should be a more moderate person, not a supremicist like Sharpton. My personal opinion is that Al Sharpton actually promotes more racial tension by people's dislike of him rather than work to unite everyone.
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@ MudkipsUliekEm
"Let's put it this way... if he were shot and killed today, I would be pretty happy about it."
I agree with you that a world with Al Sharpton would be a better world, however shooting him is not the solution. First of all, there is a chance he would become a martyr and we would have to hear about him for years and years to come, and secondly, killing a man just for what he says is wrong -- especially Mr. Sharpton. It would revert this country back to an atmosphere it experienced in the 60s, and I don't think anyone wants that. - uberchaoslord, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13We don't like your "look at me I"m pseudo-intellectual, I spelled Fox "Faux" I'm so clever!"
- aspec, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Jesus would have apologized if he got it wrong.
- bakefy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+24So Don Imus lost his job, Al and Jesse are just as racist but didn't get fired. You can't loose what you don't have.
- TroubleInMind, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Inside your stuff there is a grain of truth. The reason Imus got fired was that his sponsors left. If the sponsors had doubled, CBS would have him surrounded by bodyguards and lawyers and be calling him "sir".
- phaed, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Oh noes. But they ARE victims. Haven't you heard? They deserve respect without giving it, money without earning it, the American dream without helping be part of it.
/s - endtime, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13What a surprise, he's an anti-Semite.
- geomon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@gedden
I applaud Sharpton's efforts to reduce the violence in rap lyrics, but what about the racist and misogynistic aspect? This is what Imus is being crucified for, not violence in lyrics.
And what was Sharpton's response to the violence in rap? A *call*. He wrote a few letters, went on the radio, and did a few television appearances. Did he and his action network show up at the rap studios and the producers offices, advocate boycotts, show up at the malls where the CDs were sold? NO! And where was Jesse during all of this anti-violence in rap activity?
Find another example of the Reverends attempts to stem the flow of bigotry and misogyny in rap and I will stand by Imus' firing. Until you can point to another example of the same level of treatment that Imus received, this is just get whitey. - phaed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13obviously any story that is mentioned on digg more than once means digg is obsessed with it.
/s jic - superfrodies, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13what scum
- jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13He's just a nappy-headed ho!
- ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Unless you've been listening to O&A over the last few days. And what you are talking about (it being socially ok for one group to do something, but it is considered racism if the tables are turned) is called a double standard.
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