Why Hasn't Al Sharpton Apologized To The Duke Lacross Players? How About The New Black Panther Party?

Question

I a person can loose his job over "nappy head ho," why is there not a public outcry for an apology from people who would drag innocent people into the media spotlight and label them rapists?

Answer 1

From my earlier post:

Ok, so now that the Duke Lacrosse players have been cleared and it is clear That the “Exotic Dancer” lied, will the good Reverend Jessie Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton go into the streets of Durham tomorrow and protest? Will they DEMAND justice for these boys and hold the city hostage with threats of violence until that woman is brought up on serious charges? Will the Rev. Jessie “Hymie Town” Jackson and the Rev. Al “I got Jewed out of my numbers” Sharpton reveal that they are really just poverty pimps sucking the money out of their own people? Will they admit that they are just using the “race card” to line their own pockets and to keep the black community down for their own benefit?

And for you to young to remember those racial quotes and many, many more by these two “Reverends”, just know that they need to keep racial tension alive to keep their bank accounts full!

Answer 2

The double standard applies here. Al Sharpton says it's not over as far as the Duke Lacrosse situation is concerned. Other than face time I TV, I do not know what he thinks he will gain from this exploitation of a black stripper.
He should apologize but he probably won't. Jesse hasn't apologized for Hymie Town. The want white people held to standard that is inapplicable to blacks. Stop the rappers, stop the black comics, if one cannot say it no one can.

I wonder if Al Sharpton took all the sick, under privileged children into consideration (yes, some are black) that stay at the Imus Ranch? He, through ruining Imus' career puts this facility in dire straits. A post was on Y&A about all the millions raised for the rance and where did it go. The ranch is for terminally ill children and children with cancer. Care of individuals like this can go up to 25,000+ due to medical staff and facilities at the camp. Is Al going to provide these children that he took this from anything in return?

I am just waiting for it to become poilitically correct to call bottled water - liquid non-soda, or some dumb crap like that. Pepsi and coke will have soda wars fighting over slurs made by drinkers of the rival company's product.

What happened to common sense in this country????

Answer 3

SadaamLi: I think it has to do with the fact that Mr. Sharpton's radio talk show is not listened to as widely as Mr. Imus. I for one did not even know that Al Sharpton had a show until people started comparing his ignorance to Mr. Imus' ignorance.. I have one point to make and I hope you don't think I am defending either of these gentlemen because I do not intend to: Here is my point, I am a mother. When my daughter tried to use this same argument on me - i.e, " but Lisa's mother lets her do it" - My response was - well, I'm not Lisa's mother and you are not her sister so you knew what the rules were!!. Does Mr. Sharpton work for the same companies as Mr. Imus did? I quite frankly was shocked that after 25 or so years Don Imus was not syndicated. He could not have been fired if syndicated he could have only been dropped by some markets. I have friends on local radio and they all have assured me that their business has very strict guidelines regarding what can be said on air and that they are all aware that they have crossed them. Don Imus is a big boy - supposedly all grown up - I had stopped listening to him years ago due to this same sort of disrespectfully talking about women. I don't think he should have been fired though - I think it would have helped women and blacks more if he had been shown more as apologetic and had stopped doing this stuff. As it is I believe he will pop up on Satelite radio more venomous than ever. -k-

Answer 4

i'm uncertain what Al Sharpton could have been years in the past, yet in the final 5 or 10 years he has survived soley by having the flexibility to act as a lightenening rod for controversy. Now if he honestly cared relating to the reasons he jumped on and drew interest too, then he could ask for forgiveness for those cases whilst he makes fake accusations. that he would not, and wont with connection with the duke incident is evidence that his authentic motive is self advertising. what's substantial to him isn't the incident, or righting the incorrect, yet that HE be on the middle of it, and if something does take place, that he instigated it. it truly is a shame, by fact it may lend lots greater credibility to him and his "reasons" if he have been greater open approximately those cases whilst he has been incorrect

Answer 5

Because the Lacross players are not innocent, they were just found not guilty. The players can still be guilty being that there were two strippers saying they raped them but the prosecution only used one so theres no telling what really happened. Al Sharpton shouldn't apologize for anything because It is not a fact that the lawyers or stripper maliciously and intentionally filed false charges against the players. Imus deserved to be fired though because he made racist remarks against innocent basketball girls.

Answer 6

Judge Chuck Superville sentenced a 14-year-old white girl, convicted of arson for burning down her family’s house, to probation
"There was the 19-year-old white man, convicted last July of criminally negligent homicide for killing a 54-year-old black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck, who was sentenced in Paris to probation and required to send an annual Christmas card to the victims' family."
A 14-year-old black freshman, Shaquanda Cotton, shoved a 58-year-old teacher’s aide at paris high school in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun. She was tried in March 2006 in the town’s juvenile court, convicted of “assault on a public servant” and sentenced by the same Judge Chuck Superville to prison for up to 7 years, until she turns 21.
to read more: http://www.ybpguide.com/2007/03/13/paris...

Shaquanda Cotton's official blog :
http://freeshaquandacotton.blogspot.com/...

also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shaquanda_c...

Answer 7

Idiots don't apologize for their comments. I contend they think they don't have to. EVERYBODY and I mean everybody needs to apologize to those kids. Their life was totally ruined and to get confidence back in the American criminal justice system (fractured as it is) is one hard thing to do when you have been dragged through the mud. I do hope they sue for false imprisonment, wrongful accusations and the whole load of other charges they can sue for!

Answer 8

Oh, you won't see that apology anytime soon. I'm sure a new racist scandal will completely overshadow that one, leaving them free to spew their hate anew, causing people to forget about those innocent players.

Answer 9

Sharpton is a jackass. (We learned that in the Tawana Brawley case.) So is anyone who pays even the slightest attention to him.

Answer 10

Because they are white and Al "racist" Sharpton hates white people.