Sharpton calls for firing over "lynching" comment

[mrs reb77]

http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=158720

Unfortunately, it was only a matter of time.

[TRob84]

:mad:Between Sharpton and Jesse Jackson what don't they complain about? I think its a little steep to suspend the woman for making a comment thats not derogatory or racial. Its just becoming too much of a politically correct world and you can't joke around with just anyone anymore. :mad:

[smokin68]

I wish someone would suspend Sharpton and Jackson.

[bootlen]

I can think of a much better word than "suspend" for those 2 bastards.

[Chauncey]

From the end of a short rope would be appropriate. Not being racial here these two are just troublemakers and are allowed to just keep getting away with it. They have caused enough trouble in the last twenty years. How come they have not been locked up is beyond me. They're just agitators and stir the pot at every opportunity.

If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house."

Those were the immortal words of the Rev. Al Sharpton during the Crown Heights crisis in New York City in 1991. A car driven by a Hasidic Jew had run over a black child in the Brooklyn neighborhood, prompting black-Jewish tensions that eventually spilled over into antisemitic riots. Sharpton's contribution to civic peace was statements like the above, together with such classic anti-Jewish smears as: "Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights."

Oh, the statesmanship. This is the man who stands with eight other presidential candidates every two weeks or so to opine to a national audience about the future of the republic. With Sharpton, the dumbing down of presidential candidates is complete. In 1992, Pat Buchanan ran for president after having a cable-TV show. In 2000, Alan Keyes did Buchanan one better — he ran for president to get a cable TV show (it appeared briefly on MSNBC). Sharpton is running on the Keyes model, with his scheduled Saturday Night Live guest-hosting gig this weekend showing some results.

Fringe candidates can have their place. Ralph Nader added something to the 2000 election. But Sharpton has no memorable policy proposals, no distinctive ideological position, nothing but himself and his resume.

He wants to be remembered as the guy with the funny lines rather than a racial provocateur who smeared an innocent man during the Tawana Brawley hoax and built his New York notoriety on race hatred. "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business," Sharpton said in a 1995 Harlem controversy over a Jewish storeowner who had a conflict with a black rival neighbor. A protester in that case eventually shot his way through the store and burned the place down, killing eight people.

The other Sharpton priority is supplanting Jesse Jackson. Sharpton threw his sharpest elbow of the campaign after it was reported that Jesse Jackson's son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., planned to endorse Howard Dean. Sharpton promptly, and ridiculously, denounced Dean for his "anti-black agenda." Why does Sharpton hate Jackson? The same reason Ford hates Chrysler. He's the competition.

Sharpton and Jackson are dueling over who will be the nation's best-paid race hustler, a lucrative occupation. For example: According to the Wall Street Journal, the owners of the Word Network, which is devoted to running black church services, pay Sharpton and Jackson roughly $10,000 per protest to demonstrate at the headquarters of cable operators that don't yet carry Word. A Sharpton-led protest in March 2002 prompted a St. Louis operator to begin carrying the cable network.

The cynicism of the Sharpton campaign is an open book. Typically, presidential candidates stay in cheap accommodations. Sharpton's campaign, in contrast, is an excuse to live high. According to the New York Post, Sharpton has stayed at the nation's swankest hotels, including a visit at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles, which soaked up five percent of the cash Sharpton had raised in the third-quarter fundraising period. When appearing at black churches, Sharpton collects a "love offering" — that goes directly into his own pocket.

Sharpton counts on other candidates and the moderators at the debates being too timid to challenge him on his checkered past and questionable practices, so he can pass himself as respectable. In an exception, Tom Brokaw recently asked Sharpton if he would apologize for his role in the Brawley case. Sharpton had a defamation judgment against him in the case, but he stood by his smear and responded with a fusillade of obfuscation that eventually wore Brokaw down.

Sharpton will no doubt win his own private presidential race. He will emerge from this campaign as the nation's foremost "civil-rights leader." Owned by Sharpton, however, that title is not worth having.

Written by Rich Lowry

[jmac00]

Nice post, Rich

like I have said many times. Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are two of the most prejudiced people in America.

If not for these two, Racism would probably go away much faster

[Chauncey]

The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, while visiting a primary
school class, found themselves in the middle of a discussion related to words
and their meanings.

The teacher asked both men if they would like to lead the discussion of
the word "tragedy". So the illustrious Rev Jackson asks the class for an
example of a "tragedy".

One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a
farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and
knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."
No," says the Great Jesse Jackson, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children
drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
I'm afraid not," explains the exalted Reverend Al. "That's what we
would call a great loss." The room goes silent.
No other children volunteer.

Reverend Al searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give
me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room little Johnny raises his hand. In a
stern voice he says: "If a plane carrying the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton
were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy."
Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson and Sharpton, "That's right. And can you
tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," says little Johnny, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be a
Great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either

[jmac00]

The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, while visiting a primary
school class, found themselves in the middle of a discussion related to words
and their meanings.

The teacher asked both men if they would like to lead the discussion of
the word "tragedy". So the illustrious Rev Jackson asks the class for an
example of a "tragedy".

One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a
farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and
knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."
No," says the Great Jesse Jackson, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children
drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
I'm afraid not," explains the exalted Reverend Al. "That's what we
would call a great loss." The room goes silent.
No other children volunteer.

Reverend Al searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give
me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room little Johnny raises his hand. In a
stern voice he says: "If a plane carrying the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton
were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy."
Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson and Sharpton, "That's right. And can you
tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," says little Johnny, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be a
Great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA

[RoBoTeq]

Tiger Woods has personally stated that this is a non-issue. It would be nice if responsible Blacks would take the extra step to condemn Sharpton, Jackson and other bigots who keep making race an issue where it is not one.

[The Doctor]

Mr. Woods and the commentator have enough of a working relationship that it is not even an issue.

But there must be a need for a love offering. http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/New/justicebrothers2.asx

when do we want justice? "it would put us out of work".



or try this one: http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/New/justicebrothers4.asx

[mrs reb77]

Golfweek editor fired over noose cover

http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSN1860208320080119

[RoBoTeq]

Golfweek editor fired over noose cover

http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSN1860208320080119

While again not worthy of loosing one's job over, it was a pretty stupid move in the wake of what was already happening.

The main problem here is that the golf industry cannot afford to have an exodus of Black members of the golf community suddenly leaving the sport. Then again, just where would all of those lawn jockeys find another place to go?:eek:

[CertifiedHandy]

These three have something in common and it isn't race. Money. Two makes it because of their race and one inspite of it. The irony is most non-Black people spend far too much energy over Jessie and Al. Blacks are by nature an economic factor. That's one reason why slavery was and is such an issue. One other thing; Tiger, by his own admission isn't Black, so lynching jokes, comments whatever you call it doesn't mean anything to him. Now if we could take Tigers denial and somehow graft this onto the reaction that racial issues provoke in Blacks we could take the $800 billion or so that we spend yearly and fire the three of them.

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