Ten years before this buffoon defamed an entire ethnicity with this inarticulate, stupid statment, Paula Deen used the “N” word. And now she’s lost everything while this clown gets his own TV show on MSNBC. Where was the outrage back then?
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Ten years before this buffoon defamed an entire ethnicity with this inarticulate, stupid statment, Paula Deen used the “N” word. And now she’s lost everything while this clown gets his own TV show on MSNBC. Where was the outrage back then?
Ten years before this buffoon defamed an entire ethnicity with this inarticulate, stupid statment, Paula Deen used the “N” word. And now she’s lost everything while this clown gets his own TV show on MSNBC. Where was the outrage back then?
Al Sharpton!
Blessed are those who, having seen him, refuse to believe.
I love Al Sharpton! He’s so wonderfully [idiotic]!
I love him too, Sasha. If for no other reason than he makes intelligent liberals gag.
I remember this particular incident. Is there any really question as to why it’s allowed to happen?
Well, I guess because the Best and the Brightest in the GOA are unaware of anything that happens in America no matter how outrageous. If Sharpton had said these things in Greece or Cyrpus, they might have heard it.
What is Al Sharpton “Rev.” of?
Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens from The New York Public Library on FORA.tv
I’ve listened to about 45 minutes so far and Sharpton is quite good. He pressed Hitchens hard on the point that without God (or religion — they used the terms interchangeably) morality has no grounding. Hitchens responded from his bag of clever but irrelevant retorts (he was a master of the diversionary quip) but Sharpton kept pushing him.
I’ll let you know how it turned out. Thanks for posting this Yo.
Perhaps you have you have forgotten that the Rev. Al Sharpton (an ordained Southern Baptist Minister) has strong genetic ties to the Southern aristocracy. A researcher found a genetic link between Sharpton’s family (either his great-grandfather or his great-great-grandfather, I can’t recall) & the family of Senator Strom Thurmond who owned and eventually freed Sharpton’s ancestors. As I recall, Sen Thurmond’s sister told the press that if Sharpton was willing to supply a sample for DNA testing and the result was as expected, she would “welcome him to the family with open arms.” Sharpton said he had no interest in determining “any link to those old crackers.” Honestly, I can’t say as I blame him.
Well, what can I say? Once graceless, always graceless.
Can’t speak to the accuracy of the rest, but Sharpton is an American Baptist, not a Southern Baptist.
I’ve listened to about 45 minutes so far and Sharpton is quite good. He pressed Hitchens hard on the point that without God (or religion — they used the terms interchangeably) morality has no grounding. Hitchens responded from his bag of clever but irrelevant retorts (he was a master of the diversionary quip) but Sharpton kept pushing him.
I’ll let you know how it turned out. Thanks for posting this Yo.
The 66-year-old Deen grew up in rural Georgia at a time when the n-word was commonly — and widely — used by whites to demean blacks. That’s no longer acceptable, at least in most public settings. And just as times have changed, Deen says she has changed, too.
There was a great deal of outrage surrounding Rev. Sharpton, especially surrounding his involvement with the Tawana Brawley trial in NYC. In 1994, Rev. Sharpton was still very much on the way up and did not have sponsors, advertisers, a tv show, etc. The controversy surrounding Ms. Deen happened when she did have sponsors, advertisers, a tv show, etc., i.e., when she was on top. That’s the difference. You can’t fall from ground level.
It also seems as if she has handled the PR surrounding her admission very poorly. PR 101: apologize first, don’t defend. The admission is also just not part of the wholesome image she had created in media, it is the disconnect that has brought the controversy. She seemed to be all that was good about the South, with nothing of the bad bits concerning race relations. It’s not really a shock once you think about it an take into account her age – of course, she would have used the term at some point. Still, it’s counter to her image. Rev. Sharpton did not have a positive, wholesome image to shatter back then. Anyone who knows anything about him knows he said these sorts of things. If he said them again, now, you would see a similar backlash because of the image he’s created since then, the fact that he has a tv show, sponsors, etc.
Considering her books are selling like crazy since the controversy, I don’t think it’s accurate to say she has lost everything.
Rev. Sharpton is an American Baptist minister. That’s where the Rev. comes from.
I see your point but Sharpton had already been a presence in NYC when he said that, as well as a pastor of a parish. Paula Deen was a working stiff when she had a gun pointed to her head and when she said that word.
The issue isn’t when in time the comment was made, but when the making of the comment was revealed and in what context, i.e., a trial over racial discrimination. I believe her defense of the comment was also poor, which exacerbated the revelation.
Rev. Al was regularly and widely condemned in NYC during much of the firs half of his career, and memories linger. Ms. Deen was not condemned back then, and her recent admission merely brought her well-crafted image back down to earth. Not everyone likes their “whitewashed” fantasies to be so disrupted, especially advertisers and sponsors that have no responsibility to stick by her if she is no longer providing them with what they hired her to do for them.
Like I said, though, her real fans are buying up her books in droves, so I don’t think she’ll starve. That audience will also result in another act to her public career, but with different business partners and a modified image.
You’re really polishing one bad apple. Sharpton literally has blood on his hands what with the Freddie’s Fashion Mart fiasco and the Crown Heights riot. He also destroyed the lives of six policemen with his Tawana Brawley hoax. And it was he who ginned up anger at George Zimmerman, forcing the State of Florida to conduct a political trial. How much more blood on his hands is he going to have if the jury acquits him and there are riots?
This is not an idle conjecture. Yesterday while driving I was listening to Hannity and a black caller said that if he’s acquitted, Zimmerman will never be safe.
“The day I used that word, it was a world ago — it was 30 years ago — I had had a gun put to my head,” Deen said.
Most Byzantine emperors gained power through a strict line of succession, but Justin I managed to take the throne by sheer force of will. A peasant by birth, this self-made royal spent his youth as a sheepherder in the Balkans. Hoping to find fortune and adventure, he eventually struck out for Constantinople in the late 5th century. Arriving in the capital city with nothing but the clothes on his back, Justin lucked into employment as a guard for the Byzantine Emperor Leo.
Though he could neither read nor write, Justin was respected for his bravery and skill as a fighter, and he eventually rose to command the palace guard. When the childless emperor Anastasius I died in 518, Justin used his influence to win over his fellow soldiers and seize the throne for himself. With this coup, the 68-year old completed a miraculous rise from poor shepherd to sovereign of the Eastern Roman Empire. The peasant emperor’s nine-year reign is not remembered as particularly important, but it did set the stage for his much more influential successor, nephew Justinian I, who attempted to restore the old Roman empire by recapturing much of Western Europe.
My example here of pulling up by the bootstrips, something that Al Sharpton doesn’t believe in.
I know of many children who taught themselves to read. This is laudable. That fact does not preclude us from sending the vast majority of children to schools so adults can teach them to read.
I think it would be great if pulling one’s self up by one’s own bootstraps weren’t required for success quite so often. What’s so bad about society reaching out a hand to help someone up? personally, I think that stupid traveler got what he deserved and should have dragged himself to the inn for assistance, and used his own well-saved money to care for himself rather than mooching off that dirty but hard-working maker of a Samaritan.
This line of thinking has resulted in the US having one of the lowest levels of social and economic mobility in the world today – so much for meritocracy unless the assumption is that the children of the rich are by nature more able than the children of the poor. It was not always thus in the US and the change has taken place as we have cut the social safety net and allowed more and more wealth and power to coalesce in the 1% and 0.1% while supporting economic strategies that tend to scatter communities and families in their search for employment, benefits, housing, healthcare, etc.
123, that’s a very facile analysis. I don’t know anybody who taught themselves to read but if any such person existed, I’m sure that he was raised in a house in which the parents promoted learning.
What’s so bad about a society helping somebody out by lending a hand? Nothing, I’d like to find the society that does that instead of the one we have now which goes out of its way to make things difficult for people to help themselves. Think of it: black illegitimacy in 1965 = 26%/black illegitimacy 2013 = 78%. How much did we spend on transfer payments in the interim? $10 trillion dollars? More?
The reference to the beaten traveler who was saved by the Samaritan is too ludicrous for words. I don’t know any conservative who would not do what the Samaritan did (should he possess the resources or be in a position to*) or ever criticized Jesus for promoting mercy. And no, Objectivists are not Conservatives.
*I give this caveat because there are times in which it would not be prudent to drop what you’re doing, get out of your car and help a total stranger. I don’t recommend single women doing this for example. Now with the advent of cell phones this is not an issue but 10 years ago and before, I would caution against it.
Just visited friends whose daughter taught herself to read. Homeschooled, yes, but her younger brothers are far, far behind grade level in reading.
Much more has been spent in many other societies without the same effect. I would suggest there were many other issues were at play between 1965 and 2013 that influenced black illegitimacy more than transfer payments, including a general move away from marriage among the poor and middle class of all races in the US in that same time period, declining real wages for that entire period of time, a drug pandemic that hit the black community hardest, and the loss of most no- and low-skill jobs in the US to automation and overseas competition, as well as more and more cuts to the social safety net in more recent years while wealth (and buying power) has coalesced at the extreme top end of the population thus decreasing overall demand (and therefore jobs) nationwide.
Dear George,
I personally taught myself to read by asking the maids who were hired to do housework and babysitting “What’s that word?”> while pointing to a specific word or another. Road signs and cereal and other such ordinary fare were the curriculum materials. Phonics are somewhat intuitive. So, even bored southern babies in anti-intellectual households can learn to read given a couple willing teachers. Knowledge is power for kids
What empires is Sharpton saying blacks had built? If he is speaking of the Egyptian Empire, he is confusing North Africans (Who Egyptians are, but not black) with Sub-Saharan Africans.
An interesting video concerning different perspectives on the intersection of free enterprise with big business and some of the side aspects of the same:
http://www.aei.org/events/2013/07/11/is-big-business-a-big-problem-for-free-enterprise/?utm_source=Paramount&utm_medium=Event&utm_campaign=Culture+of+competition
Much more has been spent in many other societies without the same effect. I would suggest there were many other issues were at play between 1965 and 2013 that influenced black illegitimacy more than transfer payments, including a general move away from marriage among the poor and middle class of all races in the US in that same time period, declining real wages for that entire period of time, a drug pandemic that hit the black community hardest, and the loss of most no- and low-skill jobs in the US to automation and overseas competition, as well as more and more cuts to the social safety net in more recent years while wealth (and buying power) has coalesced at the extreme top end of the population thus decreasing overall demand (and therefore jobs) nationwide.
Blacks and everyone were poorer in the 1950’s, white poverty is around 20 percent in the 1950’s but lower out of wedlock births. I think that cities should have helped blacks with transporation to the suburbs by building public transporation out or cars. As for Factory work, people can changed, in fact in California lots of whites who were the most employed in the aerospace industry went to other fields like real estate and construcation which a lot of hispanics went into. Granted, the housing bubble happen with too many bad loans. Hispanics claimed to make 40 an hr sometimes in construcation before the bubble. Now its down to 8 to 18 per hr and the factory work avaialbe is 8 to 20 hr
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