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Is the Rev. Al Sharpton a racist?

Is Al Sharpton a racist

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Wake said:
Because if a white man said the black press was evil, he'd be on the front page, deemed a racist.
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See Wake, words have meanings. What the media or any one else says about a person does not change that words have meanings. The media cannot make up new definitions. I posted 2 definitions of racism in this thread, and you have yet to show how Sharpton fits either.
 
Wake said:
Then let's apply your standard to all the white people liberals slam, and you'll find that quite a few of those accused aren't racist.

I am so sick of the hypocrisy.
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I guess you missed this part?

The problem now days is to many think that anything said involving race that may be negative (no matter if it is true or not) is racist or racism. That is total bull****. - Blackdog

People really need to read.
 
Blackdog said:
I guess you missed this part?

The problem now days is to many think that anything said involving race that may be negative (no matter if it is true or not) is racist or racism. That is total bull****. - Blackdog

People really need to read.
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Then from this point onward we should backhand both the right and the left for doing this sort of garbage.

Al Sharpton, for one, needs to stop.
 
Blackdog said:
...The problem now days is to many think that anything said involving race that may be negative (no matter if it is true or not) is racist or racism.....
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you appear to be searching for wiggle room, to justify racist comments.
 
Blackdog said:
I guess you missed this part?

The problem now days is to many think that anything said involving race that may be negative (no matter if it is true or not) is racist or racism. That is total bull****. - Blackdog

People really need to read.
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I agree. There needs to be a distinction drawn between racism, bigotry, and prejudice.
 
Wake said:
Then let's apply your standard to all the white people liberals slam, and you'll find that quite a few of those accused aren't racist.

I am so sick of the hypocrisy.
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So call them on it. Are you unable to point out when liberals play the race card?
 
Redress said:
See Wake, words have meanings. What the media or any one else says about a person does not change that words have meanings. The media cannot make up new definitions. I posted 2 definitions of racism in this thread, and you have yet to show how Sharpton fits either.
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If you're going to defend Sharpton in such a way, I wonder if you'd defend Rush and all the other accused the same.
 
Wake said:
Then from this point onward we should backhand both the right and the left for doing this sort of garbage.

Al Sharpton, for one, needs to stop.
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When's the last time someone of import actually said something to the effect of "all crackers are _______"?
 
Redress said:
So call them on it. Are you unable to point out when liberals play the race card?
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I think Sharpton and quite a few liberals play the race card. Yet you're reacting to me calling out Al Sharpton.
 
Wake said:
Then from this point onward we should backhand both the right and the left for doing this sort of garbage.

Al Sharpton, for one, needs to stop.
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Thank you captain obvious. You have now caught up with what we have been saying in this thread.
 
StillBallin75 said:
I agree. There needs to be a distinction drawn between racism, bigotry, and prejudice.
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um..that's called splitting hairs. They are all basically the same & interchangeable.

though all racism is bigotry & prejudice, not all bigotry & prejudice is racism.
 
Wake said:
Then from this point onward we should backhand both the right and the left for doing this sort of garbage.

Al Sharpton, for one, needs to stop.
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Who is we? I slap anyone and everyone I disagree with I don't give a rats ass about right or left.

Freedom of speech. It is his right to say what he likes as long as it is not an issue of public safety. So no, he can say what he likes.

Freedom of speech is to important to limit it because of ideology.
 
Blackdog said:
Who is we? I slap anyone and everyone I disagree with I don't give a rats ass about right or left.
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Yes, but you are not a partisan hack.
 
Redress said:
Thank you captain obvious. You have now caught up with what we have been saying in this thread.
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Snark aside, I dislike the hypocrisy. If any white man would be deemed a racist for the things that Sharpton says and does, then so should Sharpton. It shouldn't be that only Sharpton can make such constant racial attacks, while anyone even passing as pale would be lambasted as racist for doing the same. On the flip side, if Sharpton can say such crap and get away with it, so should white/non-black people.
 
Blackdog said:
Who is we? I slap anyone and everyone I disagree with I don't give a rats ass about right or left.

Freedom of speech. It is his right to say what he likes as long as it is not an issue of public safety. So no, he can say what he likes.

Freedom of speech is to important to limit it because of ideology.
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I want the same process to be meted out to all.

Most know that if a white man did just as Al, but said the reverse, there'd be a totally different reaction on this thread, I think.
 
Wake said:
What do you mean it doesn't answer the question?

If a white man said/did the exact same things as Sharpton, that man would be branded a racist.
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The question I asked you twice was:

How does whether or not Sharpton is a racist depend on "if a white man said the reverse"?

Answer: It doesn't.

Got it yet? You continue to define racist as whether or not a white person would be called racist for saying the same thing. That's not the definition of racist. If you want to know if Sharpton is a racist, you go to the dictionary, find the definition of racism and see if it applies to him. You don't find out by asking whether or not people would call a white man racist for saying the same thing.
 
Wake said:
Snark aside, I dislike the hypocrisy. If any white man would be deemed a racist for the things that Sharpton says and does, then so should Sharpton. It shouldn't be that only Sharpton can make such constant racial attacks, while anyone even passing as pale would be lambasted as racist for doing the same. On the flip side, if Sharpton can say such crap and get away with it, so should white/non-black people.
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No you do not dislike the hypocricy. A poster who is a major race baiter here makes a thread claiming some one else is racist(pay attention to that, it's important), and do you call him out for hypocricy? No, you go after those who do actually do what you are now claiming every one should do.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
The question I asked you twice was:

How does whether or not Sharpton is a racist depend on "if a white man said the reverse"?

Answer: It doesn't.
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Why doesn't it? Explain....
 
Let's see - -during the fabricated Tawana Brawly fiasco, he said "We’re building a movement. This is the perfect issue. Because you’ve got whites on blacks. That’s an easy way to stir up all the deprived people, who would want to believe and who would believe—and all [you’ve] got to do is convince them—that all white people are bad. Then you’ve got a movement."

thus taking on a role as provocateur for the express purpose of whipping up racial hatred.

During the case of a white female jogger who WAS raped, he supported the black rapists most vehemently, claiming they were actually the victims of a racist justice system.

During the antisemitic crown heights riots, he stirred up hatred against Jews challenging the "diamond merchants" to “pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house” to settle the score after stirring up his followers to go on a rampage screaming "Jew, Jew!", he then defended them by saying "We must not reprimand our children for outrage" a few years later he organized an attack on a Jewish-owned business calling them "crackers" and saying "Keep [going] right on past Freddy’s, he’s one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don’t give the Jew a dime"

Is he a racist? Not only is he a racist, but he is intentionally stirring up his followers to follow suit.
 
Redress said:
No you do not dislike the hypocricy. A poster who is a major race baiter here makes a thread claiming some one else is racist(pay attention to that, it's important), and do you call him out for hypocricy? No, you go after those who do actually do what you are now claiming every one should do.
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which is of course, an example of hypocrisy. to only call out liberal racists & race-baiters, but lend a blind eye to Conservatives who do it, is pathetic hypocrisy.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
The question I asked you twice was:

How does whether or not Sharpton is a racist depend on "if a white man said the reverse"?

Answer: It doesn't.

Got it yet? You continue to define racist as whether or not a white person would be called racist for saying the same thing. That's not the definition of racist. If you want to know if Sharpton is a racist, you go to the dictionary, find the definition of racism and see if it applies to him. You don't find out by asking whether or not people would call a white man racist for saying the same thing.
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I disagree.

If Al Sharpton said the white media is evil and isn't deemed a racist, while a white man says the black media is evil and is deemed a racist, you know there's a problem.
 
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