“Lynching is not murder in general. It is not assault in general. It is a specific racial term that this woman should be held accountable for. What she said is racist. Whether she’s a racist — whether she runs around at night making racist statements — is immaterial.”
I expect Sharpton will be getting around to condemning the racist overtones of rap and hip hop music (as promised last year after the Imus debacle) any day now. A vote for Obama is a vote to remove power from this hate monger. The African American community needs real leadership, not this garbage.
Effective immediately I am boycotting the Golf Channel over its behaviour relating to Kelly Tilghman.
The fact that the Golf Channel as an employer is knowingly suspending Tilghman after it said it didn’t intend to discipline her, tells me that it is afraid of Rev. Sharpton and his band of thugs who really are encouraging reverse discrimination. As the Golf Channel seems to support this, I will not willingly support neither the network nor its sponsors.
America has become so wrapped up in political correctness that our language has become wracked with words that cannot be said by non-African Americans, and this in essence is discriminatory.
Kelly Tilghman should be allowed to use any non-profane word that any other human should be entitled to on the air. I don’t feel her remarks were offensive, racist, nor hateful. I feel badly that she will return to work to a company who fosters ignorance and pandering.
There’s a lot more than overtones of racism in rap and hip-hop music– more like a flood of racial hatred, misogyny, and homophobia, not to mention the crassest idolatry of material goods– just the sort of values we want to cultivate in our black youth.
Sharpton has made quite a career for himself as a professional hustler and “racial arsonist”. He looked better as James Brown’s toady than he does as a ‘civil rights’ activist devoid of moral credibility or authority, need it be said.
His real talent is self-promotion. I have to give him credit– he’s a master at that.
…..as was Adolph Hitler. A promoter is only as successful as the following.
Perhaps the fact that Imus has returned to broadcasting is credit due his current employer. I certainly don’t support the commentary that sparked his removal from NBC, but Rob’s pp.3 speaks to that.
I once wrote in these pages, at the time, that words like ‘spik’, ‘kike’, ‘wop’ and ‘sheeny’ are not words of self-affection used within the ethic groups to whom these derogations have traditionally applied.
So why it is that Negroes, notably Sharpton among them, the self-appointed crusader against racial bias, have not pressed harder to eliminate the popular use of the word ‘nigger’, which is now only considered by many as disparaging if not uttered by a person of color.
Years and years of struggle, to break down barriers, and this is the moment we arrive at. What’s ever left of the United Klans of America, The White Citizens Council, and all their sympathizers, must be jumping for joy. The Negroes themselves have validated it for them.
Another short note. The script of the film “The Great Debaters” gives a history of the origin of the word “lynching”. It was a process of brutal punishment by example, used by a man named “Lynch” to bring slaves into line. The word has come into general usage, to denoted any kind of vigilante ‘justice’, violence that ended in the killing of the individual who was the object of same, usually by hanging at the time. Hench, the terms ‘lynch’, ‘lynched’, ‘lynching’, or ‘lynch mob’.
Sharpton is used to captaining a ship of fools,taking for truth everything he utters. Just as with “Pearl Harbor”, the world will never forget “Tawana Brawley”.