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Is the Rev. Al Sharpton a racist?

Is Al Sharpton a racist

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He's a showman, but sometimes, showmen have to believe their own bull**** to present conviction.
 
He's a grammatically challenged opportunist and a professional martyr, but I don't believe he's racist.
 
He is allot of things, but racist is not one of them.
 
He makes a career out of race. Even if the issue isn't directly hatred, such career choices are not much better for society.
 
He's certainly racist. Not in the sense that he hates white people, but in that race is the focal point of his politics.
 
He is the text-book definition of race-baiter. He stirs racial tensions, and even regarding truly non-racial instances he's out there causing strife and discord.

He is a racist. If a white man talked as similar as Al Sharpton, that man would be called a racist.
 
GhostlyJoe said:
He's certainly racist. Not in the sense that he hates white people, but in that race is the focal point of his politics.
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This is true but that does not make anyone a racist.
 
While I can't know what really goes on in his head, certainly his public actions would lead one to believe that. That's really all you can go by, if he opens his mouth and sounds like a racist, he is, for all intents and purposes, a racist.
 
If Don Imus is a racist, Al Sharpton certainly is.
 
Wake said:
He is a racist. If a white man talked as similar as Al Sharpton, that man would be called a racist.
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That's because to many thin skinned people throw around the word racist and have not a clue what it means.
 
1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.
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Blackdog said:
That's because to many thin skinned people throw around the word racist and have not a clue what it means.
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Sharpton definitely being one of them. If people can brand Imus a racist, Sharpton easily fits the mold as well.

All must be equal.
 
Sharpton and those like him are only racist in a vacuum. With no legitimate oppression of blacks and other minorities going on, then he is just making trouble. However, were anyone to suggest that no such oppression is going on, that person would be lying or just plain stupid.

I'm not sure what definition of racism we're using here, but I'm going to explain mine. Racism is the oppression of people based on race. Not the dislike. Not the hatred. It's the act of oppression. By the definition, Sharpton cannot be racist, as he isn't capable of oppressing anyone. Which color skin you are born with is still a fairly strong indicator of your opportunities in life. We all know that this paradigm is not inherent to nature. It is a construct that we (mostly the white "we") have created. Until it is no more, then someone like Sharpton must continue to show us that it is there and that it needs addressing.

The idea that talking about race makes one a racist is a fabrication designed by those who like it that white people have all kinds of advantages over other races to keep the discussion about race quiet. Are gays bigots against straight people for clamoring about the rights that they are denied? Of course not. Just as blacks are not bigots for clamoring about the opportunities that they are denied. The myth is that speaking legitimate grievances is the same thing as bigotry, and that is a very clever tactic, specifically working to keep blacks and other minorities oppressed.
 
I heard Sharpton ranting in front of a crowd of black people, he said " do they think we is stupid?" I thought to myself yes, if that is the way you talk "we thinks you is stupid". The thing is Al is well educated and knows how to speak proper English, I have heard him do it on TV interviews so my take was that he was talking down to his black audience.
 
It's fun to watch him flub up the English language from time to time.
 
Since we're on the subject of a smarmy racist, have you noticed at times, when he's asked questions, that he responds by turning it around on the questioners?
 
Re the OP: Of course Sharpton is a racist; there is no other answer but 'Yes' to the poll. The Democrats love racists, and don't even mind running them for office, another reason they're no longer an option as the other wing of the Billionare Boys Club. Obama is also a racist, which is why so many racist blacks and Democrats voted for him; if he weren't, he would never have been electable, at least since 1984, as a Democratic candidate.
 
Wikipedia: Racism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature (i.e., which harms particular groups of people), and which is often justified by recourse to racial stereotyping or pseudo-science. Racism is popularly associated with various activities that are illegal or commonly considered harmful, such as extremism, hatred, xenophobia, (malignant or forced) exploitation, separatism, racial supremacy, mass murder (for the purpose of genocide), genocide denial, vigilantism (hate crimes, terrorism), etc.
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Dictionary.com: Racism | Define Racism at Dictionary.com

1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
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Based on the definitions, I cannot call him a racist. He is, like many politicians and posters here, using race based arguments and playing the race card. A simple look at the Martin/Zimmerman case and the threads here will show you that most people do this to an extent, including some here calling Sharpton a racist. This however is not an excuse, we should condemn any one doing this crap, I just don't think it is helpful to single any one person out. AS is usually the case with things like this, the people making the loudest arguments against Sharpton are doing the exact same thing.
 
Redress said:
AS is usually the case with things like this, the people making the loudest arguments against Sharpton are doing the exact same thing.
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Then it all needs to stop. If people are going to accuse others along the lines of racism, then all must stop, from Al to Imus.

I am so sick of people doing the same thing while some are condemned and some aren't.
 
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