Vieira Raps Rev. for Racial "Double Standard"

391. Sharpton & Jackson serve a purpose in our society. They keep alive the concept of 'victimhood'. If all of those 'victims' suddenly empowered themselves, those two race hustlers would be in the unemployment line and there would be fewer opportunities for all people.

Rap music also serves a similar purpose. It promotes a philosophy of hopelessness and fatalism. Both black and white kids who adhere to this 'gangsta' lifestyle of underachievement end up as losers. This allows the motivated kids of all races to better themselves.

Not everyone can be successful...

Posted at 12:09PM on Apr 15th 2007 by Paul Anthony

392. FUNNY AL SHARPTON PICS
http://outeasy.wordpress.com/

Posted at 4:53PM on Apr 15th 2007 by Jean

393. I think the term "African-American" should be shortened to Af-Am. What do you think?

Posted at 12:58AM on Apr 16th 2007 by Alaska Berg

394. Hear me when I tell you this, Every "RACE" needs an Al Sharpton,, I just think that you guys are MAD that you don't have one. LOL

Posted at 12:53PM on Apr 17th 2007 by The Bills

395. Kim's comment represents EXACTLY what is wrong in this situation. If you don't want to be called a slur, you shouldn't go around casually addressing others with it. Imus is a shock jock...this certainly doesn't excuse what he said, but this has just gone way overboard. Perhaps someone should've called out Jesse Jackson when he called New York City "Himey Town" years ago?! What was done there?

Posted at 8:42PM on Apr 17th 2007 by KimDoubleStandard

396. You know, if our people worried about what their children and teenagers were doing as much as they worried about what some ignorant person said about them, we'd be in a much better position than we are as a race. In my city, there was a riot over how many blacks has been killed by the police. Fast foward a few years, and our black-on-black crime rate is through the roof! Is that a result of a white man calling us names? Is that a result of a white woman winning Miss America? No, it isn't. It has been said that drugs are brought into our neighborhoods by whites and such. Did they put a gun to anyone's head to MAKE them sell drugs? Are they putting guns to our heads to make us take up weapons against each other? Hell naw. We're our own worst ememy, and seem to be too blind and stubborn to want to do anything to affect a change. Our priorities are all wrong. Concentrating on the ramblings of some racist white man shouldn't be anywhere on the list. Concentrating on what June Bug and Shanika are doing outside at midnight should be. Oh, but Mama can't can she? Naw, she's too busy "getting her swerve on," or looking for Mr. Right! And Baby Daddy's taking the Bible verse is "be fruitful and multiply" just a little to literally. If folks raised their kids to be adults, and stopped exposing them to all the wrong things, it might help. Yes, there are many single parents out there, male and female, who do the right things and raise their kids to be respectable adults. But y'all are few and far between anymore, for real. You're just about as endangered as the Black man as a species.

Posted at 5:57PM on Jan 7th 2008 by Miss Tay

397. Sorry I missed the interview but it sounds like Meredith is one of the few in the media with a little good ole common sense. I am outraged by the dismissal of Imus and the over blown accusations of racism for the silly remark that Imus made. Given the culture in America at this point in time, how can anyone believe that the girls of the Rutgers basketball team were so deeply hurt? They had every right to feel insulted by Imus' thoughtless statement but they were big enough to forgive him. It appears that Sharpton and Jackson along with MSNBC and CBS are not big enough to forgive. The hypocrisy of it all makes me sick.

Posted at 11:36PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Tired of the BS

398. I just want to add my two cents on mochaqueen and shanna keep it real ladies I like what you two had to say.

I could care less about Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson for that matter, and whomever the media dreams up to be the black communities’ leader. The black community hasn’t had a leader since the late Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. No one has put forth efforts to better the community as well as proficiently stand up for the people with in it since them. I’m so tried of hearing the word “the race card” racism is not a game this is still very much a part of life in the USA and abroad. I guess that’s why I haven’t heard anything else about the reality show Black & White on FX. Some people weren’t ready for the truth so we can began to heal as a nation. Furthermore while some of you are slinging dirty on these men that don’t make any decision in this country maybe you should start looking into the dirty that some of these politicians who run our country do

I feel Imus dismissal wasn’t so much about this one event but it was the last straw of 30 years of similar apologies you can’t keep committing the same atrocities over and over again throwing a dry apology and a little cash at the issue you caused and expect it to be Ok. We as people need to take responsibility for our words and actions. As for rappers it’s entertainment tune in or tune out. Rap is not our culture it’s a way that some in our culture choose to express themselves there are many genres with in this one title “Rap” that are not explicit as well as there are other music expressions in our culture. That’s like basing white culture solely on Punk 0r Grunge Rock. Let’s get real people.

Miss Tay I feel where you are trying to go and all I can say is if a person is not being taught how anyone expects them to learn. Are you a mentor or a Big Sister for some of the young girls and boys in these communities to help them learn what these parents are not teaching? Are you involved in any of the programs to help these persons better themselves or there households? Are you being apart of the solution while you pointing the finger at the problem?

Posted at 3:54AM on Apr 20th 2007 by Eloquent

399. where was the "rev" al and his but boy jessie when the homie mugged the 101 year old lady for $33.00

Posted at 7:33AM on May 3rd 2007 by jim