When are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton going to publically apologize to the Duke lacrosse players?

Question

Imus should be dismissed on sheer stupidity. Who is more "scarred for life" the Duke lacrosse team or the Rutgers basketball team?

Answer 1

Jesse Jackson, the guy who refers to New York as Hymie Town and who ran a corporate shakedown racket through Operation Push, and Al Sharpton, who slandered three innocent men for allegedly raping Tawana Brawley about 20 years ago? The people who followed these two have to look themselves in the mirror and ask themselves what was wrong with their knee jerk leftist rush to judgment. The only connection of Jesse and Al to religion is that they call themselves reverend. There has to be a special place in hell for those who use God's name only to make a buck.

Answer 2

Al Sharpton, to my information, has on no account apologized to a white guy or woman for something he has accused them of, however in the event that they have been harmless. i do no longer understand approximately Jesse Jackson, yet IMHO, Al Sharpton is in simple terms as racist by fact the KKK - purely he's on the different fringe of the stupidity. The Duke l. a. crosse gamers have been honestly receiving dying threats in the court docket previously the data have been ever out. Nifong ought to be put in detention center for what he did - he placed his very own re-election earlier than the actuality, which develop into his sworn duty. I doubt you will ever see an apology from Al Sharpton to them - do no longer carry your breath.

Answer 3

Never in a million years, birds of a feather flock together ! I would like to know if Jackson is going to take back that scholarship he was starting for the "Victim" in the Duke case to help with her having to deal with what those 3 players did to her ??? Hey Revs` read up on your Bible....Proverbs 6 : 16 - 19 .. These six things doth the Lord hate ; yea , seven are an abomination unto him : A proud look , a lying tongue , and hands that shed innocent blood , An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations , feet that be swift in running to mischief , A FALSE WITNESS THAT SPEAKETH LIES , AND HE THAT SOWETH DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN..

Answer 4

hahah when hell hits absolute zero...(that means freezes over for stupid people...)

you see though, don imus must go and apoligize to a team of players for slander but jackson and sharpton who lead the cause that could have sent 3 innocent men to jail for a very long time will not ever have to say they are sorry...

political correctness my ***...

Answer 5

"In my eyes I done seen some crazy thangs in the streets. Gotta couple hos workin' on the changes for me ..."

Lyrics from "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," 2006 winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song, by Al Kapone for "Hustle and Flow."

The air is so thick with irony and hypocrisy these days, it's hard to find oxygen to breathe.

On the same day that North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped charges accusing three white Duke University lacrosse team players of raping a black stripper, MSNBC canceled its simulcast of the Don Imus radio show for a racial slur against the mostly black Rutgers University women's basketball team.

Two athletic teams — one mostly white male, one mostly black female. Two examples of race and gender colliding. One rogue prosecutor; one rude shock jock.

Obviously, there's no comparison between the two cases in terms of consequences. While the Rutgers gals suffered hurt feelings, Imus lost his television gig and his radio show, the three Duke men potentially faced 30 years in prison and District Attorney Mike Nifong faces ethics charges.

But the two episodes do share the complicating and distorting factors of race, sex and politics.

And of course, they both share the opportunistic involvement of those two rogue race-baiting "reverends", Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Both not only came to the aid of the Rutgers basketball team, but grabbed the microphones before the accused Duke players had their day in court.

In Imus' case, neither was willing to accept the radio host's apology for his unfunny racist remark aimed at the basketball players and both worked, successfully, to get him off the airwaves.

In the Duke case, we will succumb to suffocation, I suspect, if we hold our breath waiting for Sharpton and Jackson to apologize for feeding the racist frenzy that condemned those three young men whose lives were nearly ruined by innuendo, lies, an out-of-control prosecutor and a complicit media.

We also will collapse onto the fainting couch waiting for an apology from Duke's "Group of 88" — the coalition of arts and science faculty who took out a full-page ad in the Duke newspaper commending students who demonstrated and distributed a "wanted" poster of the lacrosse team. The 88 also promised to "turn up the volume" on the administration in dealing with the crimes of these "farm animals," as English and Afro-American Studies professor Houston Baker described the lacrosse players in an e-mail to the mother of a team member.

Duke President Richard Brodhead, meanwhile, suspended the accused, accepted the resignation of lacrosse coach Mike Pressler and canceled the rest of the 2006 lacrosse season. It was not a pretty day for due process.

But the man behind the curtain orchestrating this travesty of justice was Nifong. In the rap vernacular that brought down Imus, he pimped the accuser, using an apparently troubled young woman for his own political gain in his re-election bid, instead of sending her home where she belonged.

Despite the obvious double standard among those who purport to work for racial harmony, the convergence of these two events may be the tipping point in our national debate about race, sex and speech. Let's do cut close to the bone, but, lest we become enamored of our virtue, we should acknowledge a couple of facts:

Duke administrators and trustees, who are now demanding a complete investigation into Nifong's behavior, are a year late and a conscience short. With notable exceptions, administrators and faculty behaved abominably and should be considering an investigation into their own hearts. What a contrast to the support Rutgers University gave its students.

Answer 6

It would be nice to think that these two would admit their mistakes and apologize. However, megalomaniacs like these aren't used to answering for their bad and decidedly non-Christian behavior. So, the upshot is, it will be a cold day in hell.

Answer 7

Heard Sharpton on TV this morning. . . he doesn't think he NEEDS to apologize to them.

There are several other instances in his life that he should apologize for as well, but I doubt anyone will live long enough to hear them.

Answer 8

They wouldn't think that think they didn't do anything wrong.

The Duke players are more scarred.

Answer 9

They won't because if they do then they make it easier for the lacrosse players attorneys when they sue.

Answer 10

Never--They tried to destroy those guys lives--Imus just made a stupid comment--BIG difference there!!!---The (preachers)-LMAO--will have to face all this hatred they preaching one day--Wish I could be there at "Payup Time"!!