Conservative black journalist calls Sharpton, Jackson 'domestic terrorists'

[Trumpeldor]

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.


And—and I would say to CBS, don‘t negotiate with terrorists, because that‘s what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are. They go around the country lighting fires and dividing people, and then start picking everyone‘s pocket.

    You never see them go back and apologize for the messes they make.  Jesse Jackson today, right now, should be down at Duke, apologizing to those soccer (sic) players, rather than trying to turn these basketball players at Rutgers into the ultimate victims.  He owes the people down at Duke an apology for going and stirring in that mess, and dividing people and dividing this nation.  They‘re terrorists.  They go around this country starting fires.  And they need to be stopped. 

I believe that most, or a significant segment, of black America is tired of Jesse Jackson.  We look at his track record of his accomplishments, and there‘s nothing there.  There‘s nothing there.  Other than Jesse and Al lining their pockets, they have done nothing. 

[Dr. Dan]

very well written..except those duke kids were Lacross players not soccor.

[Trumpeldor]

very well written..except those duke kids were Lacross players not soccor.

Same white-boy sport. 

[Dr. Dan]

very well written..except those duke kids were Lacross players not soccor.

Same white-boy sport. 

and it's not soccor it's soccer...oops

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Very promising, but I'd like to see this commentator's position on Israel before jumping on his bandwagon...

[Trumpeldor]

Very promising, but I'd like to see this commentator's position on Israel before jumping on his bandwagon...

Expect nothing, and you'll get less.

[Ehud]

He's absolutely right.  With the victim culture the blacks have erected, they can never blame themselves for anything, and they can never do anything to improve their lot in life.  To them, Don Imus is the reason why blacks are poor and miserable rather than blacks themselves.  Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are REINFORCING that self-destructive idea by forcing the black community focus on superfluous, meaningless events like Don Imus's comment.  Once the blacks vent their frustration at their own failures on a scapegoat figure like Imus, they continue their murdering, drug-using, stealing, raping, and other self-destructive ways.  They need to take all that anger and aggressiveness and focus it on the real perpetrator of their victimhood, themselves!  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are reinforcing the sort of black people who will cry foul for any small thing a  white does, and then right after they'll go put their fiddy cent album on, smoke some crack rocks, and then bang some hood-rat.  Blacks will never improve their situation as long as scumbags like these are running the show.   

[cjd]

I agree with almost everything in your post however I don't feel sorry for Imus because he courted the very people over the years who took him down in the end. He burned the candle at both ends and in the end thats what did him in. I always say you can be friendly with black folks to a point however the day they perceive that you said something wrong the friendship is over with no chance of reprieve. Imus played it up for the ratings and money let him take his lumps.

[Imerica]

He's absolutely right.  With the victim culture the blacks have erected, they can never blame themselves for anything, and they can never do anything to improve their lot in life.  To them, Don Imus is the reason why blacks are poor and miserable rather than blacks themselves.  Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are REINFORCING that self-destructive idea by forcing the black community focus on superfluous, meaningless events like Don Imus's comment.  Once the blacks vent their frustration at their own failures on a scapegoat figure like Imus, they continue their murdering, drug-using, stealing, raping, and other self-destructive ways.  They need to take all that anger and aggressiveness and focus it on the real perpetrator of their victimhood, themselves!  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are reinforcing the sort of black people who will cry foul for any small thing a  white does, and then right after they'll go put their fiddy cent album on, smoke some crack rocks, and then bang some hood-rat.  Blacks will never improve their situation as long as scumbags like these are running the show.   

Wow, so all blacks rape, steal, use drugs, murder, and bang hood rats, huh? Do you think black people cornered the market on comitting crimes?

[Trumpeldor]

He's absolutely right.  With the victim culture the blacks have erected, they can never blame themselves for anything, and they can never do anything to improve their lot in life.  To them, Don Imus is the reason why blacks are poor and miserable rather than blacks themselves.  Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are REINFORCING that self-destructive idea by forcing the black community focus on superfluous, meaningless events like Don Imus's comment.  Once the blacks vent their frustration at their own failures on a scapegoat figure like Imus, they continue their murdering, drug-using, stealing, raping, and other self-destructive ways.  They need to take all that anger and aggressiveness and focus it on the real perpetrator of their victimhood, themselves!  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are reinforcing the sort of black people who will cry foul for any small thing a  white does, and then right after they'll go put their fiddy cent album on, smoke some crack rocks, and then bang some hood-rat.  Blacks will never improve their situation as long as scumbags like these are running the show.   

Wow, so all blacks rape, steal, use drugs, murder, and bang hood rats, huh? Do you think black people cornered the market on comitting crimes?

African-Americans are 10% of the population but commit 85% of the violent crime.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Wow, so all blacks rape, steal, use drugs, murder, and bang hood rats, huh? Do you think black people cornered the market on comitting crimes?

Imerica, the sad and terrible truth is that black people, as well as Hispanics, do commit a hugely disproportionate amount of violent/street crime. What is controversial about this statement? It's not racism to say that the overwhelming majority of Germans voted for Hitler because they liked his platform, but truth, so why is it wrong to state this truth as well?

African Americans must confront black crime and lawlessness or risk judgment, warranted or not, by all. That's just how it works. You do not see white Republican leaders making excuses for skinhead crime, do you?

[Imerica]

He's absolutely right.  With the victim culture the blacks have erected, they can never blame themselves for anything, and they can never do anything to improve their lot in life.  To them, Don Imus is the reason why blacks are poor and miserable rather than blacks themselves.  Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are REINFORCING that self-destructive idea by forcing the black community focus on superfluous, meaningless events like Don Imus's comment.  Once the blacks vent their frustration at their own failures on a scapegoat figure like Imus, they continue their murdering, drug-using, stealing, raping, and other self-destructive ways.  They need to take all that anger and aggressiveness and focus it on the real perpetrator of their victimhood, themselves!  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are reinforcing the sort of black people who will cry foul for any small thing a  white does, and then right after they'll go put their fiddy cent album on, smoke some crack rocks, and then bang some hood-rat.  Blacks will never improve their situation as long as scumbags like these are running the show.   

Wow, so all blacks rape, steal, use drugs, murder, and bang hood rats, huh? Do you think black people cornered the market on comitting crimes?

African-Americans are 10% of the population but commit 85% of the violent crime.

By pointing out that Blacks commit 85% of violent crime is also saying that whites and others don't do it "that much" which minimizes the real problem, that crime is comitted at all.

I don't focus on how many blacks have done this or that. I focus on the fact that crimes are happening at all.

[nessuno]

He's absolutely right.  With the victim culture the blacks have erected, they can never blame themselves for anything, and they can never do anything to improve their lot in life.  To them, Don Imus is the reason why blacks are poor and miserable rather than blacks themselves.  Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are REINFORCING that self-destructive idea by forcing the black community focus on superfluous, meaningless events like Don Imus's comment.  Once the blacks vent their frustration at their own failures on a scapegoat figure like Imus, they continue their murdering, drug-using, stealing, raping, and other self-destructive ways.  They need to take all that anger and aggressiveness and focus it on the real perpetrator of their victimhood, themselves!  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are reinforcing the sort of black people who will cry foul for any small thing a  white does, and then right after they'll go put their fiddy cent album on, smoke some crack rocks, and then bang some hood-rat.  Blacks will never improve their situation as long as scumbags like these are running the show.   

Wow, so all blacks rape, steal, use drugs, murder, and bang hood rats, huh? Do you think black people cornered the market on comitting crimes?

African-Americans are 10% of the population but commit 85% of the violent crime.

By pointing out that Blacks commit 85% of violent crime is also saying that whites and others don't do it "that much" which minimizes the real problem, that crime is comitted at all.

I don't focus on how many blacks have done this or that. I focus on the fact that crimes are happening at all.

I think it is important to look at who commits crime.  
How can you not focus on that?

[Trumpeldor]

He's absolutely right.  With the victim culture the blacks have erected, they can never blame themselves for anything, and they can never do anything to improve their lot in life.  To them, Don Imus is the reason why blacks are poor and miserable rather than blacks themselves.  Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are REINFORCING that self-destructive idea by forcing the black community focus on superfluous, meaningless events like Don Imus's comment.  Once the blacks vent their frustration at their own failures on a scapegoat figure like Imus, they continue their murdering, drug-using, stealing, raping, and other self-destructive ways.  They need to take all that anger and aggressiveness and focus it on the real perpetrator of their victimhood, themselves!  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are reinforcing the sort of black people who will cry foul for any small thing a  white does, and then right after they'll go put their fiddy cent album on, smoke some crack rocks, and then bang some hood-rat.  Blacks will never improve their situation as long as scumbags like these are running the show.   

Wow, so all blacks rape, steal, use drugs, murder, and bang hood rats, huh? Do you think black people cornered the market on comitting crimes?

African-Americans are 10% of the population but commit 85% of the violent crime.

By pointing out that Blacks commit 85% of violent crime is also saying that whites and others don't do it "that much" which minimizes the real problem, that crime is comitted at all.

I don't focus on how many blacks have done this or that. I focus on the fact that crimes are happening at all.

I think it is important to look at who commits crime. 
How can you not focus on that?

Especially when the issue of racial profiling comes up.