Category: Racism is Alive and Well

The Christian Science Monitor had an interesting article Monday.

With the ongoing controversy over the Trayvon Martin case, The article questions whether the Rev Al Sharptons call for sanctions against Sanford FL cross the line.

In a word…

YES!

I have a number of problems with Rev Sharpton, and Rev. Jesse Jackson. Personally I think that they are the most racist public figures in America.

These men, in my opinion are right up there with any Skinhead, White Supremacist, Neo-Nazi, and possibly surpass the Klu Klux Klan in their racist behaviors. (Well maybe not… Burning images of Malcom X in white peoples lawns is really tough. The stencil work alone is a bitch.)

Now that I’ve made that extremely controversial statement, let me attempt to back it up.

Here’s Al Sharptons Wikipedia Page. It makes for some interesting reading.

Sharpton has been at the CENTER of quite a few racially motivated riots and other violence. For a so called man of peace, a Minister, and a Man of God… He’s apparently missed the memo from Jesus Christ to seek Peace.

Wikipedia calls his involvement in riot after riot “Activism“. I call it nothing less than incitement to violence and in several cases he engages in “Hate Speech” by any definition.

This man, were he White would be censured and censored.

He would be painted as a crazy, racist, anti-semitic, homophobe. The news media would dismiss him with a condescending “Tut Tut” and that would be the end of it.

However Because Al Sharpton is BLACK, he is allowed to occupy the public stage.

He’s permitted much wider latitude and his opinions granted much more weight because of his race. That’s racist on the part of the American Media, Sharpton himself is racist because regardless of the actual circumstance he will play the victim card and bang the “We’re so oppressed” drum.

Don’t you think for one minute that Al Sharpton doesn’t start every day on his knees praying for events like the Trayvon Martin case.

Think about it. Al Sharptons JOB is to trade on the simmering racism extant in America.

Before you assume I’m talking about white vs black racism take a deep breath and realize I’m talking about racisim from African Americans. Just because you’ve got more melanin in your skin than someone else doesn’t give you an automatic pass. Any racial group can be racist.

His donation income must skyrocket after any event in which he can grandstand and point to the evil white fuckers trying to keep African Americans down.

Angry Black people send their hard earned money to him in support of this or that cause, and all the while Sharpton collects his “salary” from that money and lives in a very nice home in New Jersey. All he has to do is trot out the “We are downtrodden, oppressed, victims of the Bastard White man” argument 4 or 5 times a year and the rest of the time he can sit home watching The View.

Jesse Jackson is surprisingly better than Sharpton. (I honestly thought Jesse Jackson was exactly the same as Al Sharpton. After reading his Wiki Bio I’ve discovered that I was wrong.)

Jackson has been at the center of a number of situations where racial tension was increased by his comments however his record is not as “Activist” as Sharptons. Mr. Jackson has done irreparable damage to a number of individuals based on accusation alone.

The case of the Duke Lacrosse team comes to mind. Jesse Jackson and many other African American leaders demanded the arrest of 3 White… (European American) men for a rape that never occurred.

It was only AFTER many months, the destruction of 3 mens college careers and possibly their lives, and damage to Duke universities reputation itself that the prosecutor dropped the rape charges.

Before the charges were dropped OVERWHELMING evidence had to be presented that showed at least one of the accused wasn’t even at the house where and when the Rape was supposed to have occurred. But the lacrosse players WERE arrested without evidence simply to appease the black community. This affair is completely contrary to the rule of American law which states innocent until proven guilty.

Jesse Jackson NEVER apologized to the men he tried to railroad to jail, and he never will.

Now Jackson and Sharpton are doing their level best to elevate their donations and their careers by destroying a town in Florida. They don’t care who they hurt as long as the town demographic is less than 50% African American. They figure “Whitey gonna take it up the ass.” Jackson and Sharpton get more media attention and with it, more money.

These guys have figured out how to make racism pay.

I find it ironic is that these African American leaders are inciting a LYNCH mob mentality in the Trayvon Martin event.

That they are doing this in Florida is all the more ironic.

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In Miami, FL 1935 a homeless African American man whose only crime was knocking on doors to ask for food was arrested and subsequently removed FROM police custody. This man was lynched by a mob of white people with no due process, no charges filed and no trial. Some of the people in the mob were clearly visible in photographs taken during the lynching. None of them were ever prosecuted for the murder.

It is the Miami case and other horrific cases that my Mom pointed to when she was trying to teach me how wrong racism is.

My Mom didn’t make distinctions about who did what to whom, she simply said that “when people make distinctions, creating an US versus THEM mentality, bad things happen.”

No-one is immune from racism and all of us must try to recognize and curb racism wherever and whenever we see it. Now, I suspect that my mom would expand the lesson examples to include the murders of a gay couple in WIlton Manners Florida and Matthew Shepard.

The lesson is the same either way.

It’s a pity that these African American leaders weren’t taught the same broader lesson my Mom managed to teach me.

Then again, MY INCOME doesn’t come from fomenting conflict.