Fuck Sharpton...

Because he's a racist and a gold digger

thanks for the info....

Did he say sorry to the Duke players yet?

Did he say sorry to the Duke players yet?

Pffffttt.... please.

Not only has he NOT apologized to them, he won't even recind his promise to get that lying whore that made the accusations a scholarship to "further her education".

Not a lot gets under my skin, but this whole Imus thing and the fallout thereafter drives me nuts.

Go join a "would you hit thread".

This thread is for Sharpton bashing.

Did anyone hear him bash the media for what they did to Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson? After that, I knew he was full of shit. He is defending a child rapist and a woman killer! I believe his comments were made by him at the protest in front of the CBS building. AMAZING!!!!!

I just heard on the news that Imus just raised THIS MORNING, over $1,000,000 for children with diseases in a telethon. This was planned months ago and he still went through with it.

He didn't ask if it was for black of white kids, just the fact that it was for kids is enough.

Sharpton never did anything like this for kids, at least not ones that were not black. Fucking pimp.

Sharpton is a douche...

Are there any black people here that can explain this to me? Maybe I just don't understand the Sharpton point of view.

Is there something I'm missing here? Are black people supporting this guy and his statements?

Sorry it's Friday afternoon, all of the black people are out cashing their welfare checks. Please try again Monday after they've spent the weekend blowing it on crack and liquor.

holy fucking wow.. good for him. I think that says more than any apology he could have made.

Viva le Revolution.

people are losing their jobs because of attitudes like that.. don't you have to make someone breakfast or something?

I'm not even taking that route. No need for me to be racist, I'm just using common sense with this.

You wanna call a spade a spade, go for it.

I'm simply stating this is all bullshit. I'd be embarassed if I were black and this ignorant asshole was "representing" me, or for that matter, my race.


On a side note, its funny for a fag to make a comment like you did, when "your people" are always whining about discrimination. Crazy little homos.

Which is exactly why I'm my own boss. I can be as politically incorrect as I want to be, and no hypocritical trumpet man like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson bitching about it can do shit.

PS: Imus didn't get fired because of his attitude, he got fired because of a black lynch mob.

I know it's funnay that's why I do it. My exaggerated gay homosexual stereotype comes with a helping side dish of racial stereotyping.

This is why it amuses me to see you all pitching a fit over Al Sharpton. No one in my house gives a good goddamn what Al Sharpton does or says.

Most black people are capable of creating their own opinion about Imus and don't give Al Sharpton a passing thought.

haha.. good point

yea, i know.. i know you're joking (i hope), but i was just saying jokes such as that make the situation more difficult.

R

Odd then that I never see any black people on TV, or hear them on talk radio, speaking out against his actions. Of course black people are capable of forming their own opinions.

I'd just like to see those black people speak up once in a while.

Unfortunately, people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are what a large majority of the "white community" see on TV everyday to give us an idea of what the "black community" thinks about any given issue.

"You people" need new talking heads.

Or in that case "taking heads". When they speak "on beahalf of the black population", they make all of you look like fools.

yea, this is what my friends have been telling me.

But

You have racist figureheads spewing double standards and hypocritical statements. It's to bad that you don't agree with his views, but these guys are claiming to represent the af-ami interests of rascism in North American, and all they're doing is projecting a very real picture of how black people feel about these situations.

These figureheads are making the community look very very bad.

Well said.

Sharpton is an attention whore...he could care less about the black community hes only trying to line his pockets with gold.

Remember the tawana brawley incident ?

Jesse Jackass is the same way...in the duke case he promised to pay for the girls tuition no matter the outcome... but then recants that he will no longer do that becuase he or his staff was misinformed.

Their moral compass is broken!


Those two are modern day con artists.

Maybe they will unban that word here on GFY. If black rappers can call black people that and air it on the radio, why can't we use that word here?

Double standards suck.

You're never going to have one figurehead who represesnts all the opinions of the black community. And why should you? Is there one white person who represents all the opinions of the white community? Is it Imus? George Bush? I certainly hope not.

The truth is that the person who is the biggest attention whore and screams the loudest gets the most attention. Hell, you can see that right here on GFY. Right now, the media has decided Al Sharpton is their go-to guy for all things Afr-Amer opinion related. It's not like someone took a vote on it or even asked if we agree.

al is no worse than them jackasses on capital hill... stealing tax money for what..

that's why i said it's to bad. I completely agree with you, and i find it outrageous that in the end, it's black men that continue to cultivate hate and fear in the country of america.

My buddy is really sensitive about racism and for good reason. My opinion that he's SO sensitive about it, he's racist himself, and i find that really sad.

It isn't just these figure heads.. the only media driven figure heads that don't cultivate the misguided view of afi-amer racism is sportsmen. You have comics and rappers using terms that they wouldn't accept my saying them.

Seriously, how right is it that i can sit at a dinner table with the majority of afiamer, joking and laughing with the n word flying about, and i am scared to death that i'm going to spurt it as it's the most constant word i hear

I have to avoid listening to rap music, because when i get angry about something, the first word that comes to mind is "n i gger', and it doesn't have anytyhing to do with black people.

I'm saying you guys have a problem. We have a problem

R

You fucking retard. How is that even relevant to this thread?

a black man calling out a fellow black man (can I say *black man*)
Imus isn't the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK
Columnist

Thank you, Don Imus. You've given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.

You've given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

You've given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it's 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.

The bigots win again.

While we're fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I'm sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent's or Snoop Dogg's or Young Jeezy's latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.

I ain't saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don't have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.

It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.

It's embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.

I'm no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.

But, in my view, he didn't do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should've been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it's only the beginning. It's an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.

I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.

Somehow, we're supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers' wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.

But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.

In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?

I don't listen or watch Imus' show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it's cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they're suckers for pursuing education and that they're selling out their race if they do?

When Imus does any of that, call me and I'll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you're not looking to be made a victim.

No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There's no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.
To reach Jason Whitlock, call (816) 234-4869 or send e-mail to [email protected]. For previous columns, go to KansasCity.com

thanks for the article

What a great article. That gives me hope that there are normal people out there that think clearly.