Whatever happened to "let him who has not uttered an ethnic slur cast the first stone"? I'm no fan of Imus, but Sharpton and Jackson have both said things like "diamond merchants", "white interlopers" and "hymietown" in regard to people of the Jewish faith.
not only that, sharpton was all over the duke case!!! so, shouldnt he have to apologize to the duke coach who quit and the AD and the 3 boys? whata complete bastard that guy is. and jessie??? he lives like a king off of rainbow coalition money donated by the poorest of his followers. how their community holds them up as pillars continues to baffle me. thanks for the comment, cowbell.
You say, "how their community holds them up as pillars continues to baffle me."
That is easy to answer. "Their community" pays no attention when people like journalists, Jason Whitlock or Gregory Kane write the truth. Despite the fact that these men are African-Americans, they are largely ignored in favor of the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons -to say nothing of the Snoop Doggs and Fifty-Cents- of the culture. Reasonable leadership in "their community" is, at present, completely absent. They simply know no better.
There was a time when white oppression did not allow these folks an opportunity to know better or improve their lot in life. And I'm not saying that racism doesn't exist anymore, cause that's simply not true. But 40 years after Martin Luther King has given plenty of people plenty of time to help themselves. Yet it does not happen in any kind of overwhelming numbers. So as long as Jackson and Sharpton lead and the current attitude remains, Jason Whitlock's statement, "The bigots win again" will also remain.
What Don Imus says, and whatever becomes of him has absolutely no impact on the "bigger issue" that people refer to when discussing Imus fate. I guess his crime was: a white man using African-American colloquialisms in a public forum.
We have got to stop this inane idea that in order to say certain words or phrases in public your skin must be a particular color or hue. That, is racism.
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Whatever happened to "let him who has not uttered an ethnic slur cast the first stone"? I'm no fan of Imus, but Sharpton and Jackson have both said things like "diamond merchants", "white interlopers" and "hymietown" in regard to people of the Jewish faith.
not only that, sharpton was all over the duke case!!! so, shouldnt he have to apologize to the duke coach who quit and the AD and the 3 boys? whata complete bastard that guy is. and jessie??? he lives like a king off of rainbow coalition money donated by the poorest of his followers. how their community holds them up as pillars continues to baffle me. thanks for the comment, cowbell.
You say, "how their community holds them up as pillars continues to baffle me."
That is easy to answer. "Their community" pays no attention when people like journalists, Jason Whitlock or Gregory Kane write the truth. Despite the fact that these men are African-Americans, they are largely ignored in favor of the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons -to say nothing of the Snoop Doggs and Fifty-Cents- of the culture. Reasonable leadership in "their community" is, at present, completely absent. They simply know no better.
There was a time when white oppression did not allow these folks an opportunity to know better or improve their lot in life. And I'm not saying that racism doesn't exist anymore, cause that's simply not true. But 40 years after Martin Luther King has given plenty of people plenty of time to help themselves. Yet it does not happen in any kind of overwhelming numbers. So as long as Jackson and Sharpton lead and the current attitude remains, Jason Whitlock's statement, "The bigots win again" will also remain.
What Don Imus says, and whatever becomes of him has absolutely no impact on the "bigger issue" that people refer to when discussing Imus fate. I guess his crime was: a white man using African-American colloquialisms in a public forum.
We have got to stop this inane idea that in order to say certain words or phrases in public your skin must be a particular color or hue. That, is racism.
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