Exactly, just try to be elected as a Democrate in NYC if you don’t get Al’s blessing.
You’re right. I suspect it fills him more with disgust than fear though.
I honestly think however that his grasp to such power is actually tenuous at best and it could easily be taken away from him by anyone in the media who dared stand up to him and point out that his presance alone does more to harm race relations in the US than a million Don Imus’ chanting in chorus. Charlatans are almost always paper tigers and it would be simple to disarm him using the truth. Both Sharpton and Jackson could be finally made to go away if someone was willing to take that stand.
If Al Sharpton is truly working for the cause of eradicating racism and bringing the cultures together in equality, it shouldn’t do either, it should thrill him that he has less and less to do.
The problem is that pesky li’l IF…
The real shame is, that there is plenty of stuff for Sharpton to be legitimately pissed off about. If he gave a rat’s ass about the plight of blacks, instead of caring only about his own personal aggrandizement, he could perhaps do some good.
P.S. One request: could you please stop forcing other black people to create message board threads commenting on your latest attempt at public self-promotion? I really prefer to pigeonhole everyone who complains about you as a closet or outright racist, and it makes it awkward when someone who’s black starts the discussion. Sure, I can always imply that they’re self-hating or trolling for favor with whitey, but… well, I think you agree that it’s best we keep things simple. “Black and white,” one might say. Ha-ha. Anyway, you keep up the great work and I’ll keep up mine. XX 00 Your Biggest and Bestest Fan, pizzabrat.
I was unaware that the term lynching was specifically offensive to Asian Americans.
While it’d be perfectly valid for me to implicate the OP for having hangups about blacks despite being black himself if I really thought that were the case, since I’m nowhere near as simple-minded nuance-challenged as your reading of my post was, I don’t consider his response to a stupid argument Sharpton made to be an example of “overblown ire”.
That comes with the following pile-on with the implications that he somehow singlehandedly wields power over all of America’s race-relations, rather than the reality that he merely helps to reflect the status of race-relations.
If the Golf Channel really had any respect for the intelligence of their viewers, the general public, and especially blacks, they wouldn’t have taken seriously Sharpton’s glaringly tenuous argument against Tilghman. That they didn’t is worth more ire than the ill-thought-out criticisms of a powerless third-party, and more telling of “where we are” as a country, race-wise.
I’m not a big fan of Larry Elder, but I thought this article relating to Sharpton and Jackson’s view of Obama’s presidential run is on point and demonstrates their need to put a spotlight on racism at any cost, including fabricating it where none exists.
During the Tawana Brawley brewhaha, Sharpton acused devout Jewish attorney Robert Abrams of being like “Mister Hitler.” During the Central Park jogger trial, he referred to the victim as a “slut.”
I’d say something about a pot and a kettle, but I’d be accused of being a racist…
But the thing is, Sharpton does have power. He knows how fucked up and retarded race relations are in the US, and he knows how to use this to hurt people and to get media attention for himself. Not just anyone could have gotten Tilghman suspended for two weeks, accompanied by a pretty nasty public smackdown of her by the Golf Channel. But Sharpton got it done.
If he felt that the other side’s disposition towards blacks was sincerely not racist. I don’t think he feels that to be the case, hence the disgust at seeing folks get duped (in his view).
Interesting article, particularly Ford’s opinion on the matter.
The true answer to that would be, “I thought I was an individual, not some stereotype of what you think black people are supposed to be. Are you agreeing with the racists of old that we’re all the same?”
“They’re the ones that think we’re all the same, not me. And no matter how individual you may feel, see how they treat you. There’s none so blind as those that will not see. Remember your history.” (that’s my guess as to his reply)
That would be a dumb answer since that’s not what “Uncle Tom” implies at all except to a baffling amount of people who have a hard time understanding a really simple concept.
Who? Cite me who would dare accuse you of that for simply using a common cliche, and I will take off my belt and whip them soundly! Has someone had the audacity to say things to you like that because of simple turns of phrase? Do they call you a racist when you use the words ‘blackmail’ and ‘blacklist’?
This is unacceptable! I will thrash them myself!
Not an Apprentice fan, eh?
Used to love that show! I never for a moment took Omerosa seriously with that nonsense. It was a sound bite on the boob tube. If it is actually a problem for Annie Xmas…if she seriously can’t use common phrases like “the pot calling the kettle black” without people accusing her of racism, well then I am shocked, shocked I tells ya. I want to have a word with these people who are unfairly hurling ugly accusations of racism at her.