Posted on 10/06/2007 12:39:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
>>So Sharpton extorts from whites and RICH blacks. Just checking!<<
Hey, this is closest to nonracist Sharpton ever gets..
“Reverend” Al thought of it. That’s why he wants a piece of the loot.
A “natural”preference for people of xyz race for each other”?
Then pray tell why there are so many people of MIXED race around or at least having some”blood”of another race?
At least 80% of US blacks are not”pure”black.
I'm sure that the newly-minted millionairess will now be approached by the good-reverend for a 'donation-to-the-cause' now that he's declared which side he's on.
So, you saying that white grandmothers - the new minority -are a protected class?
Dang!
You should know better than to trust any woman dishonest enough to work with you on this plan .
“Tawana Brawley was unavailable for comment.”
Generally speaking, preference for one’s own tribe describes the vast majority of people.
Race and ethnicity has been a huge factor in many wars going back thousands of years.
“Leave Isaiah Thomas alone!” - unknown basketball fan from anywhere but NYC.
All true,but you still didn’t answer my question as to the obvious mixed racial backgrounds of so many people all over the world.
Some of it can be attributed to rape as in the large creole population in New Orleans but I have a feeling that most of it was by mutual consent.
Tho you would have a hard time getting feminists and ethnic separatists to admit that.
Do I have this right - Al thinks it’s not ok for Isiah Thomas to use the language he did, but its a “culture thing” for Michael Vick to run a dogfighting operation and brutally kill losing dogs??
Not to mention, Stephen Pagonis.
This actually presents an interesting logical progression.
While it is generally regarded as proper to not use offensive language yourself, Sharpton is suggesting that it is improper to *not* criticize others who use offensive language in *their* speech.
This changes the condemnation from “commission” to “omission”. He is demanding an apology from someone for being tolerant.
On top of everything else, it also crosses the boundaries of “membership”, so that you cannot use offensive language to anyone.
In this case, a black man cannot use offensive language to a black woman about being black, a group in which they both have “membership”; but he also cannot use offensive language about her gender, of which he is *not* a member.
So Al Sharpton is demanding that people apologize for using offensive language at all, or even not condemning offensive language by others.
In doing so, he has achieved the apex of censorship, in which he is the arbiter of demanding apologies from everyone for any infraction, whether they committed it, or somebody else did and they just didn’t object enough to it. And not only can you not make an offensive remark against another group, but you cannot make such a remark about the group to which you belong.
This is nowhere near as bad as Lebron James saying he’s a yankkess fan.
I don’t understand this thread, I guess...........holding different races to different standards.............isn’t that how Al Sharpton makes a living?
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