Fiannly an African-American calls for Jackson and Sharpton to Step Down

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Time for Jackson, Sharpton to Step Down
Pair See Potential for Profit, Attention in Imus Incident
By JASON WHITLOCK
AOL
Sports Commentary

I’m calling for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the president and vice president of Black America, to step down.


Controversy Rolls On

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Their leadership is stale. Their ideas are outdated. And they don’t give a damn about us.

We need to take a cue from White America and re-elect our leadership every four years. White folks realize that power corrupts. That’s why they placed term limits on the presidency. They know if you leave a man in power too long he quits looking out for the interest of his constituency and starts looking out for his own best interest.

We’ve turned Jesse and Al into Supreme Court justices. They get to speak for us for a lifetime.

Why?

If judged by the results they’ve produced the last 20 years, you’d have to regard their administration as a total failure. Seriously, compared to Martin and Malcolm and the freedoms and progress their leadership produced, Jesse and Al are an embarrassment.

Their job the last two decades was to show black people how to take advantage of the opportunities Martin and Malcolm won.

Have we at the level we should have? No.

Rather than inspire us to seize hard-earned opportunities, Jesse and Al have specialized in blackmailing white folks for profit and attention. They were at it again last week, helping to turn radio shock jock Don Imus’ stupidity into a world-wide crisis that reached its crescendo Tuesday afternoon when Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer led a massive pity party/recruiting rally.

Hey, what Imus said, calling the Rutgers players "nappy-headed hos," was ignorant, insensitive and offensive. But so are many of the words that come out of the mouths of radio shock jocks/comedians.

Imus’ words did no real damage. Let me tell you what damaged us this week: the sports cover of Tuesday’s USA Today. This country’s newspaper of record published a story about the NFL and crime and ran a picture of 41 NFL players who were arrested in 2006. By my count, 39 of those players were black.

You want to talk about a damaging, powerful image, an image that went out across the globe?

We’re holding news conferences about Imus when the behavior of NFL players is painting us as lawless and immoral. Come on. We can do better than that. Jesse and Al are smarter than that.

Had Imus’ predictably poor attempt at humor not been turned into an international incident by the deluge of media coverage, 97 percent of America would’ve never known what Imus said. His platform isn’t that large and it has zero penetration into the sports world.

Imus certainly doesn’t resonate in the world frequented by college women. The insistence by these young women that they have been emotionally scarred by an old white man with no currency in their world is laughably dishonest.

The Rutgers players are nothing more than pawns in a game being played by Jackson, Sharpton and Stringer.

Jesse and Al are flexing their muscle and setting up their next sting. Bringing down Imus, despite his sincere attempts at apologizing, would serve notice to their next potential victim that it is far better to pay up than stand up to Jesse and Al James.

Stringer just wanted her 15 minutes to make the case that she’s every bit as important as Pat Summitt and Geno Auriemma. By the time Stringer’s rambling, rapping and rhyming 30-minute speech was over, you’d forgotten that Tennessee won the national championship and just assumed a racist plot had been hatched to deny the Scarlet Knights credit for winning it all.

Maybe that’s the real crime. Imus’ ignorance has taken attention away from Candace Parker’s and Summitt’s incredible accomplishment. Or maybe it was Sharpton’s, Stringer’s and Jackson’s grandstanding that moved the spotlight from Tennessee to New Jersey?

None of this over-the-top grandstanding does Black America any good.
We can’t win the war over verbal disrespect and racism when we have so obviously and blatantly surrendered the moral high ground on the issue. Jesse and Al might win the battle with Imus and get him fired or severely neutered. But the war? We don’t stand a chance in the war. Not when everybody knows “nappy-headed ho’s” is a compliment compared to what we allow black rap artists to say about black women on a daily basis.

We look foolish and cruel for kicking a man who went on Sharpton’s radio show and apologized. Imus didn’t pull a Michael Richards and schedule an interview on Letterman. Imus went to the Black vice president’s house, acknowledged his mistake and asked for forgiveness.

Let it go and let God.

We have more important issues to deal with than Imus. If we are unwilling to clean up the filth and disrespect we heap on each other, nothing will change with our condition. You can fire every Don Imus in the country, and our incarceration rate, fatherless-child rate, illiteracy rate and murder rate will still continue to skyrocket.

A man who doesn’t respect himself wastes his breath demanding that others respect him.

We don’t respect ourselves right now. If we did, we wouldn’t call each other the N-word. If we did, we wouldn’t let people with prison values define who we are in music and videos. If we did, we wouldn’t call black women *****es and hos and abandon them when they have our babies.

If we had the proper level of self-respect, we wouldn’t act like it’s only a crime when a white man disrespects us. We hold Imus to a higher standard than we hold ourselves. That’s a (freaking) shame.

We need leadership that is interested in fixing the culture we’ve adopted. We need leadership that makes all of us take tremendous pride in educating ourselves. We need leadership that can reach professional athletes and entertainers and get them to understand that they’re ambassadors and play an important role in defining who we are and what values our culture will embrace.

It’s time for Jesse and Al to step down. They’ve had 25 years to lead us. Other than their accountants, I’d be hard pressed to find someone who has benefited from their administration
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Black America has benefitted from and outgrown Jackson/Sharpton in the same way American women have benefitted from and outgrown Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. Both groups were responsible for initial gains but have become too complacent and are pretty much just coasting on autopilot at this point.

 

jackson and sharpton only set to focus us back 30 to 40 years and instead of working on the problems in their own societies continue to scream racism at ours

 

Tell me one postive benifit that Jackson or Sharpton ever did.
They both have consulting firms that basically extort money under the pretense of a fee from small to large business. They are two guys who have become rich by being professional hate mongers.

It was Rev. Floyd Flake that build hundreds of homes in Brownsville Brooklyn for lower middle class. He was also elected to congress as well yet the leftist media did not give him the air time.

There are hundreds of other local black leaders that you rarely hear of outside of the black community for the white leftist media ignores them.

and why by the way do you always assume that I am white?

 

If they sent us back 30-40 years then blacks would be drinking from separate water fountains and eating in black only diners...well...at least we wouldnt have to hear them speak right?

 

Racism is a form of barbarism that needs to be put into the dustbin of history.I am a very strong advocate of extremely tough race relations legislation that would proscribe any organisation that has racism as part of its aims,& provide for the death penalty to be imposed on those who establish such an organisation.

Does anyone else agree with me on this?

Aidan.

 

anyone else chuckle a bit at the irony?

 

Frederick Douglas, WEB Dubois, Ralph Abernathy, A. Philip Randolph, Whitney Young, Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thurgood Marshall were true men to be proud of to name a few.

The two you mention are nothing more then race baters. Did you know that Sharpton for one caused spanish teenagers to be burned to death for they worked in a non-black owned store in harlem. He called for Freddies to be burned down and it was. Did you know that Sharpton help start a riot in Brooklyn inwhich one women was gang raped so bad that she jumped out of a window to her death just to stop it. Did you know that Sharpton was found guilty of lying in court and presenting false evidence regarding a racial matter that he created. It goes on and I will not waste my type on Jackson and how he tried to steal the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King by running around the nation showing a blood stained shirt. The word from the Southern Baptist Leadership was that King did not even like the man and wanted him out of the hotel.

By the way you should check your dates on your timeline.

 

40 years ago? let me see...thats 1967...oh yeah...might be a decade off...1967 was a great year for Blacks

You forgot one great name...I posted about him earlier but it wasnt about muslims so Madias got mad:

Percy Julian

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian/

 

Unless, I missed something or your talking about something from another thread, I don't see anyone even mentioning which race you are....

I don't even think that is relevent to the thread...

I know you were'nt directing that at me, but I don't think you or anyone elses that posts here's race really matters...

Now that youi mention it, I've never really wondered...

 

I quoted Moen in that post, smullen. The comment was directed at him or would it be more polite to say for him for at times in the past whenever this sort of topic was engaged he has alluded that my persective was that of a white rightwinger.

 

I doubt it. You think everyone who does something that YOU think is wrong should be executed. What if homosexuals, and catholics all thought that you deserved the death penalty for hating them? hmmmm? What would you think about that?

 

Funny I pretty much said the same thing in this thread...

http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?p=217189&posted=1#post217189

hmm, I see a trend here.... Anyone who doesn't match Aidens values, gets ""The Saddam Treatment""....

Wow... I started to say, I'm glad to know that America is not the only place with people like this, but actually I'm not... That just means theirs more...

 

Andy, Andy, White Right-Winger is needlessly redundant. You might as well refer to Ku Klux Klan members as white.

I have never really thought about the race of people here but given your stands on issues, I'd bet my collection you're a white guy or at least pass yourself off as one.

 

I almost laughed out loud at that irony! Aiden the hate-monger, of all people, saying that racists should be executed for hate! WTF?

 

Well white does look good on me but since I am related to the Phoenicians I think that my curly hair and light brown tannish looking skin would keep me out of that club and since on most racial profiles I am considered an "other" I guess that would make your collection mine. Shame I guard my privacy and I no longer use Private P.O boxes or I could give you an address so I guess your collection stays in the land of Lincoln.

Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand isn't it odd that the media is giving off the message of white racism at hand yet that other guy from your home state is giving hillary a run for her money in this pre-primary race for presidential hopeful coverage. Gee, whites it seems may be considering in voting for a man to be president who just happens to be.......

 

That's because Democrats are the party of inclusiveness not the party of exclusiveness. I'm sure Republicans will run a candidate of color in the year 2187 or some time after that.

 

The republicans courted Colin Powell but he declined for according to him his family thought that all of the grief that goes with being a President today was not worth it. So that left the ticket wide open for the bush family to take over the party machinary to get our current president elected the first time around.

Anyway, the point is that media outlets like CNN is nightly showing our nation as being white racist, I guess another way to tear us apart, whereas many Americans from both parties and independents of all backgrounds have voiced support for candidates who happened to be of black descent to be president or Vice President. Why one possible fanasty ticket spoken about is Rudy and Rice. Never mind the Obama steam roll.

 

If my two choices were Hillary or Obamma,
I'd vote for Obamma in a minute....

 

We here in the Land of Lincoln thank you. :smile