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Sharpton Should Have Been Shunned Long Ago
We’ll know who to thank if Florida explodes.
Imagine a white preacher from the South.
Let us suppose this white, Southern preacher utters words full of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Mormon and homophobic venom.
Let us suppose that the hateful words uttered by this white, Southern preacher incited violence which resulted in the deaths of innocent people.
Let us further suppose that this white, Southern preacher bore false witness and accused a man of raping a girl and that this man successfully sued the white, Southern preacher for slander only to refuse to recompense his victim.
Today, this white preacher from the South would be a despised figure. He would not be welcome in polite society. He would be regarded as a hatemonger with neither credibility nor legitimacy. He would be persona non grata. He would be shunned.
But it is today and Reverend Al Sharpton has uttered words full of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Mormon and homophobic venom. Sharpton’s words have incited violence that resulting in the deaths of innocent people. Sharpton did slander an Assistant District Attorney for committing rape and was successfully sued but got others to pay that debt. And yet if a preacher is black instead of white and is based in Harlem instead of Hattiesburg, that preacher isn’t shunned but rather showered with praise and power. Consider what Jeff Jacoby wrote about Sharpton in the Boston Globe:
If Sharpton were a white skinhead, he would be a political leper, spurned everywhere but the fringe. But far from being spurned, he is shown much deference. Democrats embrace him. Politicians court him. And journalists report on his comings and goings while politely sidestepping his career as a hatemongering racial hustler.
Now consider that Jacoby wrote these words in January 2003.
Nearly a decade later little has changed and in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, Sharpton’s power might very arguably be at or near its zenith despite the dubious and incendiary nature of his statements regarding the case.
Here is what Sharpton said during a rally in support of Martin in Sanford, Florida on March 22, 2012:
Don’t let them trick you. They gonna send provocateurs in talkin’ bad. They are workin’ for the other side. The Trayvon side, we gonna win this and we not givin’ them no way out.
Well, who exactly are they? Who are the provocateurs and what have they said? Who does Sharpton consider to be the other side? A little over a week later, Sharpton spoke about moving “to the next level if Zimmerman isn’t arrested.” These are not the words of a man appealing for calm and reason.
Nor are the words he chose in an article he wrote shortly before the Sanford rally. Sharpton began article titled, “Why race matters in the Trayvon Martin tragedy,” by invoking the 1955 murder of Emmett Till stating he was “openly and viciously murdered because of the sentiments of bigoted individuals who believed they had the right to carry out their own brand of injustice.” Sharpton went on to argue:
In a society that still views young men of color as threatening, dangerous and suspicious without cause, these self-defense laws in Florida and elsewhere give free range for anyone to openly kill those that they may not like or those that make them feel uncomfortable because of their own inherent prejudices. And the race/ethnicity of Zimmerman or any citizen in this type of scenario doesn’t matter, because at the end of the day, it is the race of the victim — Trayvon — that does matter. It is his race and his demographic that is consistently depicted as the threat and negatively portrayed in popular culture.
But what about Sharpton’s inherent prejudices? Sharpton assumes Trayvon Martin was killed on account of his race. The trouble with Sharpton’s assumption is, as it turns out, George Zimmerman had been critical of the Sanford Police for not arresting the son of its officers for assaulting a homeless, black man back in December 2010. Who amongst the killers of Emmett Till would have come to the defense of a black man much less been publicly critical of police in Mississippi? Under a different set of circumstances, Sharpton might have hailed Zimmerman a hero. Whatever the facts that led to the death of Trayvon Martin, Reverend Sharpton is not concerned with them. He is concerned only with his power and prestige.
Sharpton’s prestige has certainly been enhanced by the presence of Attorney General Eric Holder at his National Action Network Convention last week. Yet the prestige bestowed upon Sharpton is hardly confined to the left of the political spectrum. One of the sponsors of the National Action Network Convention was News Corporation, the parent company of the Fox News Channel. As noted by Sharpton himself, “They bash me on Fox News. But they sponsor my conference.” No doubt Sharpton is laughing all the way to the bank. And why wouldn’t he? Sharpton has never had to face the consequences of his actions and chances are he never will.
With George Zimmerman arrested and charged with second degree murder, things have calmed down for the time being. But sooner or later there will be a trial and the heat will be back on with Reverend Sharpton accompanied by gasoline tankers and lighter fluid. If Zimmerman’s trial results in anything less than a guilty verdict accompanied by a life sentence, an explosion is sure to follow. Of course, there is a possibility that this case might not proceed to trial because of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. If that happens the combustion might very well be even greater. Should an explosion of violence come to pass, then those in polite society would bear part of the blame. After all, it is those in polite society that supplied Sharpton with the gasoline tankers and the lighter fluid in the first place.
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Gary B| 4.18.12 @ 7:28AM
Now, imagine Sharpton has a race-hustling twin brother who is presdient of the United States and a race-hustling cousin who is attorney general and you've got a rabid, politically-correct power structure running roughshod across the length and breadth of our country aided and abetted by a self-adoring press.
Stormy| 4.18.12 @ 9:26AM
If Al Sharpton had a son, he would look like Barack Obama.
Anthony| 4.18.12 @ 10:07AM
Good one!!!
Herman the German | 4.19.12 @ 3:45AM
Zimmerman deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor for ridding the earth of a violent thief, drug dealer, and thug.
cowgirl| 4.18.12 @ 10:16AM
Given the fact that Obama lived and did community organizing in the South Side of Chicago, there is a good possibility that the son that looked like him would have never lived past age 18.
Occam's Tool| 4.18.12 @ 8:37PM
Cowgirl: so right. And the reason they wouldn't have lived would have been due to the family destroying nostroms of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Von Mises Jr| 4.18.12 @ 10:35AM
Al Sharpton has two daughters, and they have the same hairdo. Must get three-for-two at the beauty salon.
Doctor Right| 4.18.12 @ 12:11PM
Would he have cool, straightened hair, too...like Little Richard Sharpton?
R| 4.18.12 @ 12:47PM
Al Sharpton is public-housing-ghetto trash.
When his wife and daughter were stopped by police in Manhattan for speeding, they got out of their car and cursed up a storm, hurling the onerous "muthafucker" around like gangsta thugs.
How do you spell Al Sharpton and family?
T R A S H, that's how.
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 12:53PM
Reverend Al Sharpton is a man of God. I have listened to his sermons, and that man can preach the gospel!
You may hate him, but he's got the spirit of the Lord working in his heart, and God is on his side.
Preach on, brother, preach on! In the name of Jesus, preach on! Hallelujah!
Mike Hawk| 4.18.12 @ 1:03PM
You are being facecious.... aren't you. You can't be serious.
Kenny| 4.18.12 @ 1:22PM
Ted Y speaks the words of a fool
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 1:35PM
I am just trying to be fair to Reverend Sharpton. After all, he has his own church and congregation, and he's spoken Christ-centered eulogies at countless funerals.
Regardless of the criticism I will get for saying it, I think Reverand Sharpton is doing Christ's work here on earth--defending the defenceless, looking after the poor, etc.
Seek| 4.18.12 @ 1:48PM
"Defenseless," my fanny. The black perps that Sharpton has defended over the years are among the nastiest and most violent people you'd ever want to meet. Shame the corporations, unions and charities that open their checkbooks for this demagogue.
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 2:40PM
Yes, in many ways he is - but, don't bother trying. A lot of these people are close-minded, bigoted and racist white trash that feel their power slipping away and they are scared to death of the future. Instead of embracing change, they fight it tooth and nail. Alas, it's their reaction that causes them the most harm - and they do it to themselves.
One if by land...| 4.18.12 @ 5:58PM
I would accept you not commenting on here as a change Purp.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 4:21PM
"I am just trying to be fair to Reverend Sharpton. After all, he has his own church and congregation."
So did Jim Jones and David Koresh. Point?
Riff Raff| 4.18.12 @ 4:26PM
"To Help the Helpless! To Defend the Defenseless! To Defeat the, uh... the Defeatless!"
Al Sharpton exacerbates and promotes poverty, and he gets rich doing it. Without the "poor" he would have no job. Al Sharpton is like Judas the Iscariot, who complained "'Why was this oil not sold...and {the money} given to the poor?' He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions." (John 12:5,6)
Sharpton is a fraud and a charlatan, a modern, politically correct Elmer Gantry.
Warrior | 4.18.12 @ 6:17PM
So was Jim Jones.
Occam's Tool| 4.18.12 @ 8:38PM
Ted Y.: Tell it to the Jews he arranged to be burglarized and killed.
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 10:05PM
Evidence, please. You have stated a falsehood, Occam's Tool.
jan| 4.20.12 @ 3:33PM
One way to help the poor is not to be one of them, this POS sharpton is worth $ 5 million. He NEVER worked a day in his life!!!! Helping the poor?? gag me.
ShortNSweet| 4.18.12 @ 1:26PM
"Reverend Al Sharpton is a man of God" WHAT GOD?!?!? The one true God (I Am) doesn't preach hate, much less condone it, much less let it into His Heaven!
Your a Joke, and your Al Sharpton is the most RACIST man alive. I hope He gets on his knees with a repentant heart before he dies, or he might find himself saying "Lord Lord, haven't I prophesied you thy name." To which the great I AM replies, "depart from me ye worker of iniquity, I never knew you." HELLO!!!!
DTOM!| 4.18.12 @ 3:23PM
SnS;
Al Sharpton is no more a racist than Attorney General Eric Holder is. Holder holds that Black Panther intimidation of white voters is NOT a hate crime because black people cannot be racist.
Except, of course, when they misbehave solely because they dislike someone's race.
We gotta get rid of this Obama Presidency! Ballots people! Ballots.
Romney creeps me out but I will crawl over barbed wire and broken glass, swim through molten steel, and run through clouds of mustard gas to vote for Mitt Romney!!! (Our Joe Biden...)
Anon| 4.18.12 @ 6:38PM
Alright Al, quit tooting your own horn.
JT| 4.18.12 @ 1:53PM
Does this guy have any formal education or degree as a minister or reverend of any kind of just another self-appointed cereal box reverend appointed by another cereal box reverend?
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 2:49PM
The Reverend Sharpton did not attend college, but according to him and his family "he gave sermons at an early age."
If he delivered sermons at "an early age" this may mean that he is an anointed preacher, and anointed (without schooling) preachers are the best.
God bless Reverend Sharpton's lifelong commitment to the gospel.
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 3:16PM
God bless Reverend Sharpton's lifelong commitment to the dollar.
Chauncey| 4.18.12 @ 3:31PM
Jealous, Skippy?
You know full well that Rev Al spends more per month in the beauty parlor and on hair pomade than you earn in your pathetic blue collar job. And Rev Al is famous.
Rev Al likes to pamper himself, and I says you go Man! Go!
Susie| 4.18.12 @ 3:54PM
Well he does have pretty hair, and how it shines!
M| 4.18.12 @ 3:54PM
I wish I knew the name of the pomade he uses.
Susie| 4.18.12 @ 3:57PM
It's probably Royal Crown Hair Dressing. You can find it in the Ethnic Cosmetics at your local grocery store or drug store. I found it at CVS. Now my hair shines like the top of the Chrystler Building. I love it!
M| 4.18.12 @ 3:57PM
How much does it costs?
JT| 4.18.12 @ 6:17PM
I just used some of that stuff in my trailers wheel bearings last week. Bought it at Autozone and came in a can in the lube section right next to STP oil treatment.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 4:37PM
I didn't attend medical school, but I began watching Quincy at an early age. Does that make me an annointed brain surgeon?
Drunken Sailor| 4.18.12 @ 5:09PM
That is your definition of a preacher? Gave sermons at a early age?
Hell, I met some guys just like him at times square holding a sign that said "Repent, the end is near". If I gave Al a dollar would he go away too?
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 5:54PM
The Reverend Sharpton may not have a spotless moral record, but none of us commenting here do either, so I want to give him some slack.
I admire Reverend Sharpton for spreading the teachings of Christ wherever he goes, knowing full well that he will be despised for doing so.
Instead of expressing hateful opinions, let's bow our heads and ask for God's forgiveness for the many sins we do not see in ourselves--the many sins directed against our less fortunate brothers and sisters in Christ.
Let's try to be a little more Christ-like in our attitudes to others.
And may God bless you . . .
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 6:00PM
And I might add that Reverend Sharpton's wife and daughter thought--I said "thought"-- they were being stopped by NYC policemen simply because they happened to be black. So naturally they would loose their tempers and say ugly curse words.
I am sure they both repented afterwards. They usually conduct themselves in a more ladylike, churchlike way. The only negative publicity they've ever got was that time the police pulled them over, and I think we can all understand their anger at the time.
Again, God bless.
JT| 4.18.12 @ 6:20PM
Your a funny man Ted. Tell us one about Jesse Jack@ss and his hotel bimbo concubines. I am sure he repeated, errr, sorry, repented afterward.
Ground Control| 4.18.12 @ 11:30PM
When will Al Sharpton be more "Christ-like" in HIS attitude toward others? Few in America spew hate like Al Sharpton.
May God bless you too and grant you knowledge and wisdom.
One if by land...| 4.18.12 @ 5:58PM
Cracking me up!
Jesse| 4.18.12 @ 6:33PM
I don't agree with you Ted Y. on Sharpton--he's more a buffoon, a clown than a preacher.
But I do back you up on "anointed preachers." I'm a Pentacostal Holiness, and all our preachers are annointed with the Holy Ghost. They've been baptised in the fire of the Holy Spirit.
They may not have a education, but they've got the power to make people shout, speak in tongues and give their lives to the Lord!
lord have mercy! Them men can preach!
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 6:35PM
Thank you, Jesse, for your remarks.
I'm a Free Will Baptist myself, and all our preachers are anointed with the spirit.
I'm not a preacher but a witness, and I love to witness in church by throwing up my hands and hollering Amen every now and then wnen the spirit moves me.
yuyu| 4.18.12 @ 6:37PM
Are you two nuts?
Al Sharpton is a sleazy race pimp. Period!
Kilgore Trout| 4.21.12 @ 2:01PM
yuyu, U right!
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 7:09PM
"They may not have a education..."
You don't say. They don't have A education?
"but they've got the power to make people shout..."
Yeah? So does a good case of hemmorrhoids; hardly makes 'em holy.
Ted Y.| 4.18.12 @ 7:59PM
Trinacria,
There is no need for you to blaspheme by mocking my style of religion. I trust you know what God will do to blasphemers.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 9:20PM
Ted Y.
I apologize, brother. Why, I was tempted by the evil one and, in my moment of weakness, gave in to temptation and blasphemed thee. But then, as if the hands of the Lord were guiding me, I stumbled upon a penticostal holiness who, though lacking in any formal education, preached a sermon that made me scream and speak in tongues - you name it: Latin, Swahili, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Ebonics - I spoke in them all. And you know what I said? I said, Why, brother, hast thou blasphemed? Do you not know the Lord would send a marginally witted, though oratorically gifted preacher to spread his word and make you scream? Repent! And find some snakes to dance with! And start saying "thou" and "thee" alot. And send some money (God needs more money, brother).
Yes, my brother, I have seen the light.
Occam's Tool| 4.18.12 @ 8:39PM
Ted: does it hurt? Having your head so far up your ass, I mean. Don't you feel constipated?
Jobe| 4.18.12 @ 9:45PM
Ted, my man, stop tugging our root and get off the Sharpton train. The guy has a life long committment to making money for Al Sharpton. He's a sleaze, a charlatan, a phony, a. . . I guess that covers it.
Pseudo-Intellectual | 4.19.12 @ 3:43AM
Zimmerman should never have been charged with murder. This is a terrible injustice, perpetrated by Pam Bondi and Rick Scott...Both should be recalled by the voters. Zim acted in self-defense and rid the world of a violent criminal. He is a national hero. God bless and keep you, George Zimmerman. You are a great man.
Boston Blacky | 4.19.12 @ 3:44AM
Zimmerman is a national hero. He rid the world of a violent criminal. Pam Bondi and Rick Scott should be impeached and removed from office.
Bubba T. | 4.18.12 @ 9:41AM
"We all know who to thank if Florida explodes."
The answer to that one's easy: NBC. But the lying faces of Brian Williams, David Gregory and their biased collection of bull sh-t pushers will still be seen night after night peddling their pro Obama propaganda with no punitive punishment. I'd add Diane Sawyer to that list, but she's just another ol' pig working for a different network. Matter of facts, and to no great surprise, I happened to see an NBC "report" covering the "unable to bury" news on Hillary St. Rodham's' booze bash in Columbia a few days ago. The only part of their "Covering Hillary's 6" segment was the network's standard closing line when forced to mention icky news about their brethren on the left: " Move it along. There's nothing to see here." To the trained ear, what they really said was - "Hey, who hasn't chugged an occasional scotch and soda? George Bush did it all the time." But trust me, Wally, they all work from the same talking points sheet. I know. I can smell Axelrod's finger prints on it from here.
It's a Vulcan thing.
TLP| 4.18.12 @ 10:02AM
This is just the beginning. Pick a city. Pick any city, especially a Black Run one, and you can lay even money that, that Giant Ghetto will be on fire, come Summer.
The Muslim has made CLEAR, as did David Dinkins in New York, that as long as he is in Office, Black America has a GREEN LIGHT to do whateverthefck they wanna do. Just ask his Attorney General. He'll tell ya. Just make sure that you have a Photo I.D. Cause you can't get in to see him, without one. and you can't get on a plane, or cash a check, or get a prescription filled, or get a loan, or buy alcohol, cigarettes, or a gun. You can VOTE for the direction you think this Country should be taking without one. Just don't try sneaking in to an R rated Movie, and don't even come in here WHITE, expecting anyone to help you against "MY PEOPLE".
What's Country.
JT| 4.18.12 @ 10:30AM
I nominate Detroit, although it was burned every Devil's night for 20 years as a ceremonial urban renewal project, there is still lots left to torch.
DTOM!| 4.18.12 @ 10:32AM
Yeah - but what happened in the past is that the burned down ghettos were rebuilt with LBJ's Great Society money.
We don't have money like that anymore - AND because the government employees' pensions are more important than any other government spending they will get paid first, then we'll rebuild the ghettos that the ghetto residents burned down, then we might send out a few Social Security checks, and then maybe we'll send out some Change to the newly "single-payered" national health care system.
No, if they burn down their own slums this summer, it'll be Detroit in any city where the local cops just stand by and don't maintain law and order. Me?
Chicago is not going to enjoy the summer of 2012 any more than they did 1968...
Me? I'm reloading.
Local law enforcement might want to be thinking about this.
Hello, Sanford....
Are you listening?
There ain't no mo' money.
The Obama money is all, all gone...
I'm just sayin'...
Don't Tread On Me.
DTOM!| 4.18.12 @ 10:34AM
Note to local law enforcement: In case you are confused - I'm reloading at home and I will not be out in the streets carrying off flat screens. You want to worry about the streets, not the lawful citizens re-loading for self-protection!
DTOM
JT| 4.18.12 @ 1:07PM
Yep, and they just blew up several of the Great Society projects in Detroit, the cycle of left wing Utopianism stupidity comes full circle back to burning down the city, stage one.
JT| 4.18.12 @ 1:14PM
The faster they burn them down the fast the ghetto becomes an agragarian crop growing culture. I prefer JD 4WD tractors with folding wing cultivators over crack houses. Some of these cities should issue Scavenger licenses to anybody who strips, removes or resells anything from an abandoned ghetto dwelling. At least the materials are being re-used and re-cycled.
Kenny| 4.18.12 @ 11:20AM
"Pick a city. Pick any city, especially a Black Run one, and you can lay even money that, that Giant Ghetto will be on fire, come Summer."
Let it burn.
Darin| 4.18.12 @ 7:34AM
Zimmerman will be found not guilty (or even innocent) of murder. The case against him is far too thin, and his defense can easily cite the mass-media campaign, willful tampering of evidence (911 call editting and police station photo editting of damage to back of Zimmerman's head) and personal attacks by the President and Attorney General to show his client cannot be assured a fair trial. And blacks will go on a rampage killing and looting all around them. Local residents are well advised to get out of town or stock up on ammo, food, and water. And the governor should activate the National Guard and have them on hot standby with weapons in hand.
Gary B| 4.18.12 @ 8:16AM
If this happens and if it motivates larger turnout in November to vote for the rule of law, then it would have to be the mother of all blowback against the Obama regime. They're running a huge gamble.
Harry the Horrible| 4.18.12 @ 8:33AM
As I get older and more callous, I see riots as an opportunity to eliminate the worst elements of society in job lots. Too bad we don't make use of them that way.
benny havens| 4.18.12 @ 10:03AM
If Mr. Zimmerman is found innocent based on the evidence presented, the mental midget mob will go on a rampage based on anger. If Mr. Zimmerman is found guilty, the mental midget mob will go on a rampage based on celebration.
scotchieguy| 4.18.12 @ 11:11AM
Yep, just like in championship games. We riot cuz we happy, we riot cuz we pissed.
Seek| 4.18.12 @ 1:50PM
Ah, the joys of Black America!
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 2:43PM
racist pig ...
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 3:19PM
You don't get out much, do you?
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 9:04PM
Useless comment, as usual.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 5:03PM
Yes, the mark of a truly civilized people. One celebrates success and protests perceived injusticies through the same timeless ritual: going out and destroying your own shit. Brilliant.
Todd Powers| 4.18.12 @ 9:03PM
Well what do you expect? OWS didn't seem to work last summer, so try something else.
DTOM!| 4.18.12 @ 10:35AM
Harry,
Wake up, man! That is EXACTLY what they are up to!
C Bowen | 4.18.12 @ 7:40AM
Why did Rubio, West, and the Republican Governor of Florida side with Sharpton's mobs?
Gary B| 4.18.12 @ 8:22AM
There is no explaining what a Republican in office will do. Betrayal of their conservative base for the purpose of avoiding criticism by the left is in their DNA.
Imagine you're in an army fighting a battle for survival and, all the while, you not 100% sure your generals won't suddenly surrender. Doesn't this happen to conservatives all the time?
JT| 4.18.12 @ 1:42PM
Man, you hit it right on the head. Party of cowards when the rubber meets the road.
grant1863| 4.18.12 @ 2:00PM
Please explain how they did this. I haven't seen this. I have seen the governor assign a special prosecutor.
C Bowen | 4.18.12 @ 3:54PM
Rubio and West both sided with the mobs and were supportive of Eric Holder's brigades getting involved--they are jokes and should be finished as alleged conservatives, however, like you said, you weren't even aware of their basic betrayal because guys like Goldstein write uninteresting, flattering piece like this.
The Republican Governor, rather then letting the case remain a local issue, sided with the mobs.
Such a disgrace.
Brian Mc| 4.18.12 @ 7:44AM
Not if, but when Sharpton gets his way "Gangs of New York" will look like a children's classic while our Republic struggles through summer. Can we hope that God's grace will protect it long enough to hold elections this fall? Our prayers will certainly become more focused. Thanks, Al.
Kenny| 4.18.12 @ 7:45AM
Sharpton, that quasi-literate race baiting buffoon, is a tool of the left.
His job is to keep the Negroes in a constant state of aggrievement so that they continue to vote in overwhelming numbers for the Democratic Party.
Stormy| 4.18.12 @ 9:28AM
We much resist.
HALOMan| 4.18.12 @ 11:10AM
But resist we much. We must and we will much. about . that . be committed.
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 2:45PM
Why would any African-American vote for a Republican? Can you explain?
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 3:20PM
Unless they admired civilization and wished to live a life of liberty and opportunity, none at all.
DTOM!| 4.18.12 @ 3:27PM
To dis those who passed the civil rights act of 1963, over the opposition of Southern Democrats led by the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, Senator Robert Byrd.
Oh yeah and didn't the Democrat President Abe Lincoln actually end slavery in this country. DOH! Republican Abe Lincoln.
Purp, your ignorance is spectacular...
Seek| 4.18.12 @ 3:57PM
Every time a "conservative" uses this line of reasoning my skin crawls. All we do wind up doing is ratifying the main assumption of the Left that somehow "racism" is inherently evil and must be combated at all costs -- even if it means firing some of the best conservative minds out there.
For the record, "Democrat" and "liberal" for a century after the Civil War meant more or less the opposite. The fact that Robert Byrd, well before he entered public life (and NOT as a liberal), briefly belonged to the Klan after high school is an utterly meaningless non-story. It was Northern Democrats, not Republicans, who led the way for integration (and with mixed results).
As for President Lincoln freeing the slaves, the truth is he intensely disliked blacks as much as he did slavery. If blacks voted Republican in teh South during Reconstruction, it was only because fellow blacks were the only candidates.
We Republicans ought to be going after the vote that dares not speak its name: the white vote.
DTOM| 4.18.12 @ 5:31PM
How does one become the Grand Dragon of the Klan by being a member "briefly?"
You have presented the "For Dummies" version of Democrat revisionist history quite nicely.
The simple fact is that the Democrats in 1860 intended to expand slavery into the territories. Maybe Abraham Lincoln didn't like people whose skin was black- maybe he did. YOU don't know. But he did in fact free them and risked our country and sacrificed 650,000 mostly WHITE people to free them.
Back into your hole, troll!
Seek| 4.18.12 @ 8:37PM
A preposterous misinterpretation of my point. Here it is again, so that even a fool like you gets it:
Whether white conservatives or white liberals are the more "guilty" of racism is entirely irrelevant. What matters is that we shouldn't be having such a debate to begin with. Otherwise, we play on the Left's turf, and lose. So if someone calls you a "white racist," your proper response should be, "So? What's your point?"
My position, in fact, is the exact opposite of the Democrats. It is they who are the party of anti-white activism. Hate blacks? The Democrats love them. That's the whole problem with them.
It is not the job of conservatives to come to the "rescue" of blacks allegedly "trapped" on some liberal plantation. It is the job of conservatives to come to the rescue of whites. Are there any takers in the GOP? There sure as hell aren't any to be found among the Democrats.
Crawl back into your hole, DTOM.
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 9:10PM
Republican and Democrat philosophy flipped in the 50's/60's, but I guess you didn't notice.
When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act he said "Well, there goes the South" ... as a man of the South, he knew what he was talking about. Nixon to follow promoted the "Southern Strategy" and you can clearly see the Southern white base voting for Republicans still. And, you don't know any of this? Seriously?
The Republican party of today would make Lincoln puke.
I submit YOUR ignorance is super spectacular and downright scary.
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 9:05PM
Oh, Republicans have cornered the market on civilization and liberty and opportunity? You need some education boy. You're knowledge of 50% of America is sorely lacking.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 9:24PM
...and "you're" knowledge of grammar is about as impressive.
Yeah, we're the ones who need some education...boy.
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 9:26PM
Thanks, Mom ... you never heard of a typo? ... if that's all you got ... bring it on.
Trinacria| 4.19.12 @ 12:22AM
Well, sport, I suppose I have, but I should like to think that even you could appreciate how utterly foolish one looks when one's appeal to another individual to "get some education (boy)" contains a typographical error.
Now, with respect to your kind (though incautious) invitation to "bring it on", I refer you to my post below, wherein I graciously accept your invitation and expose you as the intellectually vacant simpleton that you are.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 4:47PM
"Why would any African-American vote for a Republican? Can you explain?"
For the same reason a child eventually stops shitting in his pants. Sure, it's so much more convenient to drop a deuce in you britches and let somebody else take care of your mess later than it is to stop playing, make the grueling trek to the restroom and then wipe yourself. But sooner or later you realize, "Hey, these people who tell me they love me are really just letting me sit here in shit all day".
Warrior | 4.18.12 @ 6:25PM
Best post of the week!!
Todd Powers| 4.18.12 @ 9:07PM
Brilliant
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 9:15PM
So vote for a Republican because they don't give a damn if you clean up your shit? That's the best you can do?
It's amazing how much you dis the very civilization that gave you life, liberty and opportunity - why? because someone might be getting something you're not? Is that called poverty-envy? Elderly-envy? Just what is that makes every Republican argue that everyone else is a mooch, a no good free-loader? You really think that everyone else is on the public dole, don't you? Wow, what a narrow mind - is that what they teach you on Fixed News? Keep in mind that the RED states take more from the Federal government than they pay in - so who is on the public dole? Bet you didn't know that, didya? Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 9:46PM
My dear friend, upon reflection it occurs to me I've been rather negligent, for I made the assumption that the analogy would be clear to even the most marginally witted reader. Alas, as you've so capably demonstrated, my assumption was irrefutably false.
In an effort to atone for this egregious oversight, permit me to explain the analogy. It isn't that one should vote for a Republican because they don't give a damn if you clean up your shit; on the contrary, one should vote for a Republican because, unlike the Democrat who is content to wipe your ass for you for the rest of your life and tell you he's taking care of you, the Republican will refuse to wipe your ass and insist that you learn how to do it yourself. One appears to be caring and compassionate, but makes you dependent upon them; the other appears to be cold and demanding, but forces you to be responsible for yourself, thereby freeing you from your prison of shit.
Now, for tomorrow's lesson, we'll be reviewing irony, which is the term we give to situations where there is a disconnect between what is expected or intended and what actually occurs.
Class dismissed.
Preston| 4.19.12 @ 3:32PM
This is hilarious, and sadly a very, very true analogy of the Democrat way of life.
qwilly| 4.19.12 @ 5:51PM
The Emancipation Proclamation is one reason is that enough....
W| 4.18.12 @ 7:51AM
Sharpton did the same act with the Twana Brawley phoney rape charge against a white DA and police officers.
And he did cause a riot resulting in the death of a Jewish man and an arson of a building when he railed against "white interlopers."
This is his act.
Kenny| 4.18.12 @ 11:25AM
The arson that you're referring to is Freddy's Fashion Mart in Harlem (1995).
That's when, due to Sharpton's inflammatory language, on of his neighborhood protestors when in with a gun, herded employees into an area and then torched the building causing seven deaths due to smoke inhalation.
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 2:56PM
So you are equating a disturbed teen-age girl who falsely accused others of a crime with the DEATH of a teen-age boy who clearly was not the aggressor, but simply was in the cross-hairs of a trigger happy jerk that wouldn't stand down when asked 3 times by 911 operations? Are you serious?
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 3:21PM
If he won't, I will.
Trinacria| 4.19.12 @ 12:24AM
Ditto.
DTOM!| 4.18.12 @ 3:28PM
No, Purp, we're not. You are.
W| 4.18.12 @ 4:23PM
Purp
The death of the Jewish man is not important to you, you justl glossed over that.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 4:56PM
"...teen-age boy who clearly was not the aggressor."
Clearly?
Surely what you meant to say was, " A 6-foot, 3-inch male with gold teeth and a twitter account filled with accounts of beating a bus driver, smoking marijuana, and forcing female african american classmates to perform and submit to shockingly graffic sexual acts was just minding his own business when a mixed race, mixed ethnicity neigborhood watch captain attacked him by lying on the ground and hitting his fist repeatedly with his face".
Brubaker| 4.18.12 @ 5:14PM
You must be wrong. Just look the photo -- the single photo -- of a smiling 13-year old boy that the MSM continue endlessly using. Obviously Trayvon was trapped in some sort of time warp where he never grew any older, never grew any bigger, never grew any meaner, and never grew any more threatening. He was, by their account, a perpetually young and innocent child.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 6:07PM
That's right. And I presume that the photo you just saw was doctored, as there was a conspicuous absence of any reference to his halo in your description of the photo. It's clear that some racist right wing nut photo shopped the image and removed the it.
W| 4.18.12 @ 7:05PM
Will the Prosecutor use the photo of the 13 year old or the current one?
Purp| 4.18.12 @ 9:25PM
Explain why a man in fear for his life would pursue, especially a 6'3" male, for any reason whatsoever? Wouldn't YOU run the other direction? Regardless of what either looked like or what their history (which are simply allegations by the way) was, common sense tells us all that the fact Zimmerman didn't stand down (which we all HEARD 911 operations tell him 3 times to comply (the real fact we cannot deny) and stop following this kid), especially when in fear for his life, means he was the aggressor, on the offensive. It was stupid, no doubt, and even if the kid turned the tables on him, the idiot that pushed the situation is at fault and will pay for his behavior. The kid has already paid the highest payment for whatever you believe he has fault in.
I'm sure you don't agree, but you don't deal in facts, so I don't care.
Trinacria| 4.19.12 @ 12:33AM
Gee, I dunno; I'm going to go out on a limb here and offer a provocative hypothesis (google it, Purp, I don't have time to define it for you) - after careful study of the question, it seems to me that it is possible - just possible - that Mr. Zimmerman was watching Mr. Martin because the purpose of a neighborhood watch is to ... Are you sitting down?... WATCH for suspicious individuals.
Appleby| 4.18.12 @ 8:18AM
If this behaviour was being promulgated by White people, it would be racism. When Black people do it, it's "espressing ethnic solidarity". This situation cannot go on without an explosion. And in the background wait scores of would be looters making shopping lists and getting in line behind the window-smashers to come. They don't care two cents for Trayvon or any other "victim." What they want is LOOT.
C. S. P. Schofield| 4.18.12 @ 12:12PM
"When Black people do it, it's "espressing ethnic solidarity"."
This is because the Liberal Intellectual opinion of Blacks is the same as that which was held by the would-be Plantation Aristocracy. They believe, on a deep level, that Blacks are subhuman, permanently childish, and completely incapable of adult behavior. They may say otherwise, but they will never, NEVER actually behave as if they expected blacks to behave like civilized people. At least half their outrage when they are faced with a conservative black is that here is a sub-human demanding to be treated as an equal!.
The Democrat Party; a hundred and fifty years of treating non-whites like pet monkeys.
Indy| 4.18.12 @ 8:43AM
Tom Brokaw, you must be so proud of your network, your silence speaks wonders.
Mike W| 4.18.12 @ 9:08AM
Why did George W. Bush honor this clown? Why does Sean Hannity have him on his show? He is the black equivalent to David Duke,yet even members of the Stupid Party (GOP) celebrate him.
C. S. P. Schofield| 4.18.12 @ 12:28PM
Sean Hannity has him on Hannity's show because he can be counted on to make Hannity's points by negative example. I have NO idea why Bush honored him, though.
Seek| 4.18.12 @ 1:51PM
Hey, since last August Sharpton has been six o' clock nightly anchorman on MSNBC.
Trinacria| 4.18.12 @ 4:57PM
"Why does Sean Hannity have him on his show?"
Comic relief.
Joellen| 4.18.12 @ 9:13AM
I've said it before but it needs to be said again. I stopped watching Bill OReilly when he cuddled up to Sharpton, was so buddy, buddy with him, thus allowing this THUG a semblance of creditability. I would also remind everyone of the DUKE Men who were also placed in this same situation. I never remember any retribution for these young men. That would include from the 80 something "Professors" who signed a petition to have them removed from the U nor the reporters who from day one had them guility from beginning to end. Final point, these thugs want us at war with each other - works best for them. Do your best to be civil minded and Pray to GOD that we the people can keep it under control with what ever evil manner they try to perpetuate on us.
Ret. Marine| 4.18.12 @ 9:18AM
" Sharpton should have been shunned long ago", no wrong on too many levels, more accurately, he should have been JAILED, and never return to civilized society, long ago. Semper Fi.
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 3:22PM
I'll see your "jailed" and raise you "shanked".
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.18.12 @ 9:19AM
The article would have been better if you had featured the facts and names of Sharpton's riot victims. Sharpton weakly apologized in one instance but the damage was done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton
Yankel Rosenbaum dead:
1. During the riot blacks looted stores,[30] beat Jews in the street,[30] and clashed with groups of Jews, hurling rocks and bottles at one another[32] after Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting student from Australia, was stabbed and killed by a member of a mob shouting "Kill the Jew."[33] Sharpton marched through Crown Heights and in front of "770", shortly after the riot, with about 400 protesters (who chanted "Whose streets? Our streets!" and "No justice, no peace!"), in spite of Mayor David Dinkins's attempts to keep the march from happening.[34]
2. Several people killed after Sharpton refers to white interlopers (In that sense he is traditional based on Marion Barry's recent comments about Asians being successful in D.C.)
Sharpton told the protesters, "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business."[38]
On December 8, 1995, Roland J. Smith Jr., one of the protesters, entered Harari's store with a gun and flammable liquid, shot several customers and set the store on fire. The gunman fatally shot himself, and seven store employees died of smoke inhalation.[39][40] Fire Department officials discovered that the store's sprinkler had been shut down, in violation of the local fire code.[41] Sharpton claimed that the perpetrator was an open critic of himself and his nonviolent tactics. Sharpton later expressed regret for making the racial remark, "white interloper," and denied responsibility for inflaming or provoking the violence.[15][4
ggoblue| 4.18.12 @ 9:20AM
send money to zimmerman at http://therealgeorgezimmerman.com/
his paypal addy is
zimmermangeorgem@gmail.com
this man will be crucified in our place. lets support his family in a big way.
Doctor Right| 4.18.12 @ 9:23AM
"In a society that still views young men of color as threatening, dangerous and suspicious without cause..."
Without cause?
Go sell crazy someplace else, Sharpton.
Black American males disproportionately commit crime in this country, including violent crime.
That's a fact. And people know it, so when they're walki g alone down the street and they see young black men heading towards them, in the words of Jesse Jackson they justifiably "...cross over to the other side of the street."
If only someone of stature would stand-up to this moronic fool, he'd stop being newsworthy.
Herb| 4.18.12 @ 9:37AM
Well.... what Jesse Jackson said in a rare moment of candor was that if he heard footsteps & young mens' voices behind him on a dark street, then turned around and saw that they were white, he would feel greatly relieved.
Anyway, if Sharpton thinks he's going to set off Rodney King II, he will find the armed opposition to be far more numerous than a few Korean shopkeepers.
P.Smith| 4.18.12 @ 10:05AM
Sharpton has never had to face the consequences of his actions and chances are he never will.
When he dies he will, as he stands before his Maker he will see the evil in his heart and he will fall on his face.
cowgirl| 4.18.12 @ 10:17AM
Amen Brother Amen. God loves the sinner, but hates the sin.
Anthony| 4.18.12 @ 10:18AM
Sharpton is a tool of the vile, amoral, mostly white elitist left that are destroying America. No person in their right mind would tolerate the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, and especially the insane Farrakhan. The American media are agents for America's destruction.
All one needs to know about how dispicable the left and the media are, is the fact that the American left treat the insane and foaming at the mouth racist Farrakhan with polite distance.
If a poll was takn of the left, they would admit in overwhelming numbers more support for Farrakhan than Sarah Palin. Now that's my defination of insanity!!!
It's why the left must be defeated, for the sake of America.
Old Soldier| 4.18.12 @ 10:22AM
The correct response to Rev Al is to point and laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3SuYc_1ayQ
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 3:39PM
The correct response to Rev Al is to aim and fire.
allan the K| 4.18.12 @ 10:24AM
Reverend? Not for Christ, for allah maybe. Since they choose violence more oft for their expression, they should reap it.
John G.| 4.18.12 @ 10:28AM
Sharpton is a surrogate. Obama orchestrated the whole thing. Obama is inciting violence ie occupy and a race war.
Clint| 4.18.12 @ 10:34AM
Axelrod Played The Race Card In The Philadelphia Mayoral Election For John Street.
Mike Hawk| 4.18.12 @ 1:06PM
Played it big time too. As Street (who also has a white father ) said: "The brothers and sistters run this city now."
W| 4.18.12 @ 4:26PM
Obama and Axelrod played the race card against our first black president, Bubba.
How is playing the race card by Obama and Axelrod any different than playing the religious bigotry card against Romney because he is a Mormon?
Mike Hawk| 4.18.12 @ 4:46PM
Same crap, different contest.
W| 4.18.12 @ 5:00PM
Mike
I was not criticizing you, hit the wrong button. I agree with you. Are you from Philly?
derfel cadarn| 4.18.12 @ 11:13AM
How with this mans record is he not in prison? If David Duke were saying these types of things the government would be all over him. I believe that all Americans have a right to free speech however that does NOT include inciting riot.
DTOM!| 4.18.12 @ 11:48AM
Who cares what you believe?
The man's free speech comes from God and is secured here by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
You might also believe that the government owes you a new car every month. It doesn't owe you a new car. And your confused belief doesn't obligate the government to give you a new car.
It is not all about you - no matter how much self-esteem they told you to have.
Sheesh.
David W| 4.18.12 @ 11:25AM
What denomination is Sharpton a reverend of? Is it a satanic cult? Is it a cult that worships death? Or maybe he is actually a mullah that only understands violence and hatred? Whatever it is this b$st$rd is in for a nasty surprise when he passes on to the next plane of existence (the same goes for the adulterous Jackson).
Louis Jenkins| 4.18.12 @ 11:48AM
Sharpton has a ton of critics here. But in the real world we stoop and bow to his likes, creating a man bigger than life, creating a legend in his own time. And he becomes even more bloated with self importance. "I'm making a difference" he thinks. His crowd loves the man, and would go to no ends to carry out his bidding. Why? We're smart enough to understand that, even if he was a "southern minister spewing hate", that his message is all wrong, and that he, and his crew, will wake up one day further down the drain than now. This summer, in any city or town, or two years from now, if Sharpton's followers riot and begin to burn and loot, there will be retribution. Will the law enforcement/military forces deal with it, or will it be up to common man, militia if you will, to combat the unrest? I'll pray for peace first and foremost, but will not forsake my committment to my loved ones or my neighbors.
Dave Williams| 4.18.12 @ 12:11PM
Al the Sharper deserves his title "reverend" about as much as my left shoe does. What a turd.
Seek| 4.18.12 @ 1:54PM
Sharpton was ordained as a Pentecostal minister at age 9. Growing up in New York City, he was known as the "Boy Wonder" preacher for his powerful sermons. He's since moved to Baptist, but yes, regrettably, he's a legitimate clergyman. News flash: Not every Christian will be to one's liking.
Bill| 4.18.12 @ 2:31PM
Sharpton is a man of HATE.
shipley130| 4.18.12 @ 3:13PM
Anger causes stress, stress causes heart troubles. Therefore, all the false anger that Al Sharpton stirs up is causing his followers an unhealthy heart.
Pat| 4.18.12 @ 5:19PM
If Al Sharpton was never born, America would have had to invent him. Because we Americans thoroughly hate each other, the blacks along with the white guilt trippers need a point of focus, a recognized leader. But someone as crude as a cheap hustler like Sharpton? You bet, Sharpton’s apologists would quickly explain that racism is crude, so Sharpton is justified in being crude. For every charge levied against him, there is a counter claim defending Sharpton – the point isn’t a search for truth, it’s simply a manifestation of mutual hate.
What alarms the “We’re all Americans together” crowd are the emotions behind the words, the lack of civility, the outright hostility. Welcome to 21st century America – from “I had a Dream” to kill Zimmerman in just a few decades – nothing ever actually changed under that gossamer façade of universal brotherhood.
For those who chafe under the obvious lack of fairness on the media’s part – get over it. Sharpton is good copy, sells media which in turn sells advertising and he supposedly doesn’t really mean it the way it sounds. Since Malcolm X - and before him Prophet Jones with his buxom female acolytes - race baiting and hustling racial guilt to the white folks are cottage industries which grew into Fortune 500 enterprises. Obama was supposed to draw us together – fat chance of that and he was never the man who could bring about unity – he hardly even tried. Still, American men and women of good will and reason will keep trying to heal the breach – but sweetness and light doesn’t sell nowadays and those innocents who grew up watching “the Beaver” are too worn down with age to change that harsh reality.
Bob Grant| 4.18.12 @ 8:38PM
If Reverend Al had a son, he'd look like Obama.
Jobe| 4.18.12 @ 9:38PM
Loud and long! If what I have read is true, and much of it is right here on this web site, Trayvon got what he bargained for. The lesson here is that one should think long and hard before attacking anyone in a "hold your ground" conceal and carry state. If "don't bring a knife to a gun fight" is good advice, then don't jump a stranger in a "hold your ground" conceal and carry state is even better advice.
somnolence| 4.18.12 @ 9:54PM
And yet this evening Bill O'Reilly verified that he and Sharpton have dinner together fairly regularly. So much for the reliability or validity of "The Factor".
POST American| 4.19.12 @ 1:31AM
----One and all, BEWARE the ethnic
chain-pulling front ops of 33rd degree
'MAY--SINs' and high profile Christian
SAP OPS -----Sharpton and Jack's--sun.
AVCurmudgeon| 4.19.12 @ 4:30AM
This case should not go to trial. The prosecution has resorted to a murder theory (depraved indifference to human life) that it cannot prove and which does not fit the facts of this kind of case. I am fairly convinced the only reason she did this was to put the onus of dismissing the case on a judge rather than take the responsibility herself.
As for Sharpton, the man is snail slime and always has been. He has no morals, no ethics, no social conscience but merely the pretense of one as he exploits -- and sometimes even creates (Tawana Brawley) -- victims for his own purposes. MSDNC has lost all pretenses of being a journalistic outlet by virtue of its refusal to sever its ties with this two-bit hatemonger.
Olivia| 4.19.12 @ 12:22PM
A little over a week later, Sharpton spoke about moving "to the next level if Zimmerman isn't arrested." These are not the words of a man appealing for calm and reason.
“moving to the next level” Seriously?
This reminds me of Ted Nugent and his remarks: "We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November," Nugent said at the convention. Nugent, who told the gun rights group last week that he would be "dead or in jail" next year if Obama is re-elected in November,
Buck Ofama| 4.19.12 @ 3:43PM
All I can say about Sharpdumb is, "This slimy, greasyNigger chimpin' out again."
Olivia| 4.19.12 @ 7:08PM
Is that all you can say? Seriously?
Maggie| 4.20.12 @ 12:19PM
If the old blacks cannot stir the pot of perceived racism on occasion,they would have no reason for being. Many,many blacks have risen to incredible levels of success and have the respect across all race and economic levels . Instead of pointing this out to the younger blacks, they attack the blacks that are successful.One can only conclude Al and gang love keeping the black masses unhappy so that they(Sharpton,etc.) look intelligent and caring.Which of course ,they are neither of these things.
Patty Kuhner| 4.20.12 @ 1:59PM
Sharpton and his friends are a mess and need to shut the hell up.
Leonard Gilbert| 4.20.12 @ 2:13PM
Shunned as in the Biblical sense ?
Plain truth...Al Sharpton is a racist. He is as biggoted as any KK Klucker you will ever come across. The difference between Al Sharpton and David Duke.? Al get's a pass.
If one supports a person because of race...one is just as much a racist as if one opposes a person because of their race.
Bill| 4.20.12 @ 5:19PM
This is unfair! We live in a law and order society. If someone is shot, we should have an investigation. Trayvon Martin's death was going to be swept under the rug. Al Sharpton did a great job making sure the rule of law prevailed. Both Al Sharpton and the Martin family appealed for peace in the event that Zimmerman would not have been arrested. This isn't just a racial issue. I'm white, and I would be out protesting too if no investigation had been conducted.
Charles Martel| 4.20.12 @ 6:38PM
An investigation was conducted. I would post a link to the City of Sanford web site where lots of details were posted until the Special Prosecutor made them remove it.
This is all a political case.
Leonard Gilbert| 4.20.12 @ 6:38PM
Bill...I wasn't being unfair. I actually believe that there was a crime and I believe it will come out. I believe that they will find that Mr Zimmerman had been released, had arisen, and shot Mr. Martin out of anger or revenge. The Special Prosecuter will be able to tell by the powder residue.
Unlike Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson,and Associates, the Congressional Black Caucus, and yes...even the President of the United States and the Attorney General of the U.S....I am going to give the local law enforcement folks a chance to gather and process the evidence and to make their case. They said that they would and could and if they don't, I'll be right there with you on the picket line and it really shouldn't matter what color my skin is.
Bill| 4.20.12 @ 8:54PM
Good on you, Leonard Gilbert!!! If that happens, I'll meet you on the picket line. I don't think Zimmerman was a racist, just a bit of a psycho with a Rambo-complex. I also think he's going to skate -- not because the courts or police or jurors are racist, but because of the "Stand your Ground" law, which makes it almost impossible to convict anyone of a shooting death when that person has some claim to feeling threatened, even if he's feeling threatened because he started a fight.
Leonard Gilbert| 4.23.12 @ 11:48AM
Actually Bill..Trayvon Martin had no cuts on the back of his head which had been inflicted by a younger, bigger, stronger assailant. Concrete to the back of the head can be lethal and GZ had a right to defend himself and just as much right to be where he was, when he was, as TM had. This will come down to forensics...was he laying on his back being assaulted when he shot at very close range...was he standing but being attacked again with the assailant at very close range when he shot....or, had he been let up and was there distance when he shot out of anger or revenge? They will be able to tell.
If GZ is telling the truth then he should be freed.
Rev. Mike Rios| 4.20.12 @ 5:32PM
The reason that Mr. Sharpton gets the unwarranted prestige bestowed on him is very simple to see for us non talking heads of the media. I have yet to see one time on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, ABC,CBS, PBS or any other news channel to put in captions next to or under Sharpton's picture, "Convicted Perjurer, Al Sharpton" or maybe have a commentator actually call him a race baiter or a racial opportunist or just one time someone be actually honest with their audience and tell us what Mr. Sharpton really is, a wannabe Martin Luther King, who, unlike Dr. King, is more interested with how racism can enrich him instead of how its abolition can enrich America. The honest truth is, were it not for racism Al Sharpton would be another unknown fake preacher making a mockery out of the Gospel and the ministry. We have enough charlatans running around as it is but for the media to anoint and seek the twisted opinion of one because they failed in their responsibility to expose him for the unrepentant criminal he is is just plain irresponsible.
Charles Martel| 4.20.12 @ 6:35PM
Whenever Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton comes on TV, I reach for the remote.
POST American| 4.21.12 @ 1:42AM
---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------
Our Rockefeller core-rupted
'christian' churches now stand
fully X---posed for those not
succumbing to the effects of
Gates EUGENICS and capstone
mind control programming.
AS EVER
Sharpton and 'Jack's--son'
remain 'mysteriously oblivious'
to the statue of Masonic Pope
and founder of the KKK, Albert Pike
which stands beside our
Dept. of Justice in D.C.
----------Meanwhile, their own role
in stirring up 'CON---trolled CON---flickt'
remains on Q.
milesll| 4.23.12 @ 12:22AM
Al is a race pimp who owes the government tax money, spreads hate. When he got involved in the Martin death I knew Zimmerman was not guilty. When is the public going to wake up and see this pos for what he is.
Peter Adams| 4.26.12 @ 11:43PM
Aaron Goldstein,
I want to compliment you on your article at hand. It is well written, well researched and unbiased. I have always enjoyed reading your articles for their facts, candor and wisdom to see deep into the subject of your articles. Keep up the good work.
Mac