POLL : Who is the worst racist? Don Imus, or Al Sharpton ?

Sharpten

he is doing more with his words and actions to divide rather than unite blacks and whites

sharpton.

I honestly don't see imus as being racist, when I heard what he said it was obvious that he was making a joke using black humor, it was utterly obvious that it was only a joke, and not a racist statement. unfortunately, he did make those girls the butt of the joke, but he acknowledged that fact, and he apologized.

what I see here is, imus makes a joke, people take it the wrong way, and, with the help of sharpton, it gets blown so unbelievably out of proportion that they act as though the world is going to end.

so obviously, if you're on the airwaves, be careful what you say.

that being said, there's something awfully strange about sharpton's behavior, how he's taking things to such extremes. I can't seem to quite figure it out.

Sharpton hands down.

BTW, He has no church and refuses to say who ordained him.

So much for the rev Sharpton.

Fraud

Sharpton





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Among the earliest and clearest voices to condemn Trent Lott's benighted remarks last month were those of conservatives and Republicans, who were repelled by his nostalgia for segregation and quick to call for his ouster. When will liberals and Democrats show the same maturity and forcefully repudiate the noxious racial lout in their own tent, New York demagogue Al Sharpton?

And when will the media, which aggressively mined Lott's racial history and prominently reported the results, show a similar interest in digging into Sharpton's record -- a record far more shameful and egregious than anything Lott has to answer for.

This is a subject of more than idle interest. Al Sharpton says he is running for president. He has no hope of landing the White House, the Democratic nomination, or more than a handful of convention delegates, but that won't stop him from getting plenty of ink and air time. And maybe it shouldn't; presidential campaigns have often been enlivened and even enlightened by candidates who had no more chance of winning the presidency than they did of winning the Preakness.

But it is impossible to imagine, say, David Duke running for president as a Republican and not being shunned by every leading figure in the party. Impossible to imagine his campaign appearances being covered in news accounts that made no mention of his history in the Ku Klux Klan and his links to neo-Nazis. Impossible to imagine that he would be treated as just another candidate, albeit one with a "controversial" past. No one would roll over for Duke. Why are they rolling over for Sharpton?

After all, Sharpton's r?sum? is at least as vile as Duke's.

1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent -- the crime never occurred -- but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

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.

When Sharpton came to Boston to promote his campaign last week, for example, the news coverage was uniformly upbeat. The Boston Herald noted the "joyous singing and thunderous applause" that greeted the "civil rights leader," whose "energetic visit left many enthusiastic about his presidential bid." The Globe announced the arrival of "the colorful and controversial 48-year-old community activist" with a story listing the places and times of his public appearances. The only allusion to his ugly record was a vague quote from a local minister: "He obviously has a lot of history and controversy to overcome." That was quickly countered by Sharpton's own self-description as a man known "for my fights against racial profiling and discrimination."
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Me thinks that Al Sharpton!

NAU

Sharpton. He has long been a divider, not a uniter. He does his race a great disservice.

Sharpton

AL Sharpton

SSSharpton...

Sharkton.

Sharpton...

who has yet to explain why he used to wear his hair in a silly "flip", like Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke Show.

Sharpton -- Joined at the hip to Jackson

Sharpton ...

The worst hypocrisy and disingenuous subterfuge is cleverly exploiting and distorting an incident for another agenda ...

Sharpton

"Revrund" "O. J." Sharptoon, no question!

As much as I'm tempted to go against the flow and say Imus, Sharpton is the worst possible racist--a media whore who loves money, but is worse than a crack addict when it comes to attention.

both , anyone who is alloud to speak via the media is a tool fot the nwo.

Sharpton

Gotta be Pimp-daddy Sharpton. Big Al has been caught out making racist comments, or slandering justice officials MANY TIMES - even provoking riots based on his lies (Crown Heights). And then you have ol' Jesse "Mumbles" Jackson, and his "Hymietown" comments a few years back. As far as I'm aware this is Imus's first transgression. Stupid thing to say, but Sharpton & Jackson have NO business throwing stones..

Remember the hoo-ha that erupted when WHITE Joe Biden said that Barack Osama Obama was "articulate", and "clean" ?


Jesse Jackson has never been accused of either one !!

ROFL.

When Jesse gives a speech on TV, we need subtitles !!!

Al Sharpton FUCK HIM he is everything I define as "nigger"

So far, the votes for "most racist" are:

Sharpton - 18
Imus - 0
NAU(?) - 1 (lol, yeah the North American Union is steaming along isnt it...thats for another thread I guess)


I think we can all agree that what Imus said is just just plain STUPID. WTF was he thinking when he said it? But honestly, I dont think he is really that racist, just stupid. In fact, I think he is pretty anti-racist myself. But IMO, there is no denying that Sharpton's actions go beyond simply standing up for the black race, and get into actually INSTIGATING and PREACHING racist, hating, and separating attitudes.

He has some influence over the opinions of the black community. He has not been as much of a 'good' influence as I think he should have been. He has definately done some good, but the bad he has done far exceeds the good. Yes, there comes a time when someone like he can be a voice against racist BS, but often he actually makes it worse, not better.



VOTE! Keep this one going. Lets see where this goes...

sharpton

SHARPTON

SHARPTON.

IF HE REALLY IS SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE MASOGENY AND RACISM AGAINST BLACKS, HE WOULD HAVE SHUT DOWN THE HIP HOPPERS LONG AGO. HE IS A HYPOCRIT.

Sharpton leads but Jessie Jackson is a close second

Aint no such thing as a black racist. only whites are racist.

sharpton

I havent officially added my vote yet.

Sharpton



I think we can almost all agree, black and white, that Al Sharpton is a racist himself and has caused more problems than he has solved. Yes, I am white, but even if I were black, I dont think I'd want him preaching his message to me. Imus said something really stupid and plain idiotic and the statement was clearly a racist and sexist one. But he has not created the hatred over a period of time like Sharpton has- hatred and separation among both whites and blacks.