Don Imus and the race issue thread.

Originally posted by: ferris209


It was the fact that Sharpten, Jesse Jackson, and the media made a big deal out if it that I feel it tainted their accomplishment. I am so sick of Sharpten and Jackson trying so hard to make an issue out of nothing in order to keep their picture on the news. Them two have set race relations back 20 years every time they get on the news and spout their white hatred filled propaganda. It is ashame these guys invoke the great name of Martin Luther King, whom I firmly believe wanted equality and not superiority, I am sure Mr. King would be greatly saddened at how bastardized his sermons have become in the hands of these glory seeking morons. I don't like Imus, but he did not say anything in a demeaning or ridiculing manner, he made a stupid and bad joke, he is a moron. However, he does have the right to be stupid. I am sure if Snoop Dog was on his radio show and commented that the Tennessee teams was full of "White trash bitches" not one thing would have been said. It is truly amazing that in just over 125 years, we have come from the immoral practice of slavery and treating humans as property to total equality, and some are still not happy. Disregarding a few, I firmly believe white against black racism is virtually dead. In this 2007 a black person can deservedly go to college, become a C.E.O., be the most powerful and richest TV personality to date, and achieve a legendary status in a particular sport why should they worry about a bad joke a washed up old radio jock states. It is completely ridiculous and menial.

Originally posted by: lordjedi
The one person you left out of that list is Condoleeza Rice. In this case, she's just as guilty as the rest of them for saying that this reduces their accomplishments. It does nothing of the sort.

Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Meanwhile, Georgia looks at the calendar and sees it isn't 1954 anymore.

Originally posted by: Anchorhead
Article on Sharpton

"1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent -- the crime never occurred -- but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno."


I lived in New York City when two of these incidents took place. I'm sorry mainstream media and the rest of America don't realize who Sharpton really is. He's just a hate mongering racist who travels around starting racial fires and keeping black\white race relations stirred up. Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee are more of the same. There's plenty of money to be made and plenty of fame to be had if they keep race relations in a constant state of unrest.