Mr Sharpton

We all know it.
Al Sharpton is one of the most bigoted people in the world.

The reason that he can get away with it (contrary to the belief of many) is not because of the color of his skin. It is because he is a liberal that he has carte blanche to spout as much vitriol and hate as he wishes and still get a pass from the MSM. It is his ideology, not his race, that allows him to commit the very offenses that would draw swift retribution if uttered from the other side of the thought-spectrum.

Because Romney is a conservative, his religion is a point of discussion. No one seems to give a rip about Harry Reid. Who is Harry Reid you ask? Why, he's the Senate majority leader. You know, the Democrat majority. Oh yeah, and he's a Mormon.

Liberals are some of the most racist, sexist, bigoted hypocrites out there. A liberal thinks that if you are black, you can't take care of yourself. You can't succeed without some sort of help. You can't get into school, find a job, get a decent place to live, buy groceries, or make any important decision on your own. You must have your own community and clubs to belong to, your own awards shows and your own special set of 'leaders', Why? Because without Jesse and Al you wouldn't stand a chance. You are aren't good enough. 'The Man' Would hold you down.

I call BS.

This is treating a group of people like children. Children need the help of adults. They need to be fed, clothed, educated, and nourished emotionally. What happens to an adult when you consistently treat them like a child? You demean them and demoralize them. You take away their dignity and turn them into a dependant.

This is the current state of our welfare system in the United States. There are many people who will enter the welfare system and rise above it. They will work hard and motivate themselves to become independent. On the other hand there are those who will get caught in its seductive web of handouts and programs. Once you enter into the system, they want to keep you in it. You are encouraged to partake of more and more programs, not fewer. The system does not view itself as a stepping stone to betterment, but a way of life to be wallowed in for generations. So the deeper you sink into it, the harder it is to extricate yourself.

But back to the racist liberals. Not only do liberals enjoy dragging a whole segment of our population down into the quagmire of welfare, they treat every black person as if they need their socialist system to get from day to day. The very idea that black people need 'leaders', and affirmative action, and caucuses, and the NAACP's Image Awards makes it seem like being black puts you into some sort of exclusive club. That's: EX-clusive. Isn't that what segregation was all about? Let's flip it around. Suppose there were 'white leaders', and 'white programs' and 'the white caucus' in Congress, and the 'NAAWP White people's awards'.

But wait, you say, there *is* a NAAWP (founded by David Duke former KKK Grand Wizard). So how does the general populace look at this sort of thing, and how would we look at a white guy saying he was a 'white leader'? We would, and do, consider it abhorrent. These KKK guys are racist bigots. Are they concerned with the civil rights of white people, or about advancing white people? No, they exist because they hate black people. Why do they hate black people? Because they have different pigments in their skin.

What was it that Martin Luther King, Jr. said? Something about judging each other on the content of our character? How can this be done if there is constant reminders all around us that our society is hyper-aware of skin color? People of color have risen to positions of great notoriety. Those who are liberal seem to garner the most praise, while those who are conservative are denigrated and mocked in such racist ways that, if coming from a non-liberal person, would be grounds for immediate removal from whatever job they had.

Condoleezza Rice, being a conservative, was outrageously lampooned in political cartoons, and was called an Aunt Jemima by a white radio talk show host in 2004. I just checked that radio station's web page. He still works there. Do you think for one nanosecond that if this same guy had made this same comment about a liberal black woman, that he would have kept his job for three years? Try three minutes.

So there is a double standard out there. Check out Trent Lott's comments at Strom Thurmond's birthday party: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either". Since Thurmond ran as a Dixiecrat, Lott's comments obviously meant that he supported Thurmond's position on segregation, and logically it follows that Lott must hate black people. So he was forced to resign his Senate position.

Al Sharpton, on the other hand, can say things like: ". . .I want to make it clear…that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." This statement was in a demonstration responding to a Jewish man named Harari who owned a business in a building and raised rent on a subtenant's business who happened to be black. The building landlord (The United House of Prayer - one of the largest black landlords on 125th Street) had raised Harari's rent. Sharpton implied that Harari was trying to push out a black business owner because Harari must hate black people. So three months later, a black man storms Harari's business, shoots up the place, set fire to it, and eventually killed himself and seven others. Sharpton denied speaking at any rallies against Harari. But then tapes surfaced proving he had. He responded: "What's wrong with denouncing white interlopers?" If something similar happened after a conservative uttered such things, would not the charge be: "Hate speech leading to the deaths of seven people"? You be the judge.

Sharpton is unapologetic for most of the things he says. Evan after being proved wrong in the Brawly incident. Tawana Brawly falsely accused a former district attorney named Pagones of raping her. It was a terrible tale of abduction, rape, and using feces to write KKK on her. Sharpton said: "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 – for defamation. The whole thing was found out to be a hoax. But only after death threats against him, and threats upon his child. Sharpton was ordered to pay $65K but refused. His friends eventually took up a collection and paid for him. He still refuses to apologize. Says Sharpton: "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."

This is his attitude. To say whatever he wants and apologize for nothing. He demands apologies and retribution for the slightest hint that someone looked cross-eyed at a liberal person of color. He can incite people to riot, falsely accuse people of the most heinous of crimes, run his festering gob in front of cameras about injustices, and yet he is one of the worst offenders of what he decries.

He and his ilk are parodies of themselves. Unfortunately, they are doing damage to the race relations they pretend to advocate. This is no accident. They make their living on exploiting race disharmony, so it behooves them to continue to stir up hate and discord.

It shows how much of the 'Man' Sharpton turns out to be by encouraging self-destructive behavior and unproductive whining. There's your real news story: Who's holding you back? Who's the Man? Al Sharpton, that's who.