Saturday, June 30, 2007

Who is the real racist?


We all know by now the stupid thing that Don Imus said on his show that led to him getting fired (by the way, if you are a listener of his show, you would know that was not the first stupid thing the man has ever said). Is the man a racist? I'm not sure. What I do know is that he apologized for what he said, no matter how ignorant of a comment it was. Those girls’ lives were not ruined; they can still play basketball and live their lives.

The real racists in this is not Don Imus, it's the Rev Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton demands an apology from Don Imus, but where is the apology for the Duke players that were charged for rape by a black female and Sharpton took her side from the beginning and even after the charges have been dropped, Sharpton still has yet to set the record straight.

Has anyone forgot the Tawana Brawley case? The black girl who accused a district attorney of rape. A grand jury later determined her story was a hoax, which didn't sway Sharpton from saying the man was still guilty of the crime by stating, “We stated openly that Steven Pagones did it. If we’re lying, sue us, so we can go into court with you and prove you did it. Sue us—sue us right now.” Pagones did sue, and won. To this day Sharpton refused to apologize for his public comments that Pagones was a rapists by stating, “I did what I believed… They are asking me to grovel. They want black children to say they forced a black man coming out of the hard-core ghetto to his knees….Once you begin bending, it’s ‘did you bend today?’ or ‘I missed the apology, say it again.’ Once you start compromising, you lose respect for yourself.”

How about the "Central Park Jogger"? The white woman that was raped in central park and claimed the rapists was black. Even after confessions from the black defendant, Sharpton claimed the man was innocent and the white jogger was a "Whore!". He also stated that the jogger’s boyfriend was the guilty one. He protested in front of the courthouse with others chanting, "The boyfriend did it!" A man (not the joggers boyfriend) was found guilty of the crime. Any apology from Sharpton?

So let's review shall we. Sharpton seems to take the side of blacks no matter the evidence and then refuses to apologize once the truth is revealed.
I think we all can see who the real racist amongst is.