Thanks for your post. I posted the following this morning and think it addresses the problems you mentioned.
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To: leadpenny
“If Imus goes down like I think he could go down, he could easily become the poster boy - without rebuttal - for political correctness for years to come. This is a very big fight and Imus is almost irrelevant in that fight now.”-— leadpenny
As usual, Lead, you have got right to the heart of the matter.
Who loses is blacks, since the white power elites will turn over their responsibility to be just to the race-hustlers who will “speak truth to white power” for a fee, of course.
The biggest losers are all decent Americans of whatever colour, as the problems of the underclass (which is not exclusively black) can be ignored or bought off.
Shelby Steele, who wrote “White Guilt”, addressed this on Laura Ingraham’s show this morning, but Steele, Sowell, Peterson, et al., are persona non grata in any debate on race, since they don’t exploit white guilt, knowing how little that affects change.
The Clinton gang must be high-fiving each other as if they had won a national basketball championship. Their “win” is a big loss to blacks and to all of us.
Shelby Steele said that for Imus to crawl to someone like Al Sharpton is to legitimize Sharpton as the high priest of racial justice who dispenses “absolution” to erring whites.
He also believes that money will change hands — Jesse and the Rev will be rewarded by white corporate America for “absolving” white guilt, and blacks will be impoverished on a deeper level.
3,612 posted on 04/11/2007 8:20:35 AM PDT by Barset
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Imus ran to the Sharpton radio program to get the exact results he received. Sharpton became a lightening rod deflecting criticism from Imus. Conservative forums and talk radio will foam at the mouth at the mere mention of Sharpton’s name. Guys...Sharpton could not win a majority of liberal black votes in the last Dumbo primary. But, the DBM and my beloved talk radio continue, to my dismay, to put him front and center.
Everyone, including conservative radio, neglected the fact that these are young college girls who play a game and are not in the political arena.