keithcpw's Blog

Al Sharpton is a very street smart guy. He has managed to have a life long career stirring the racial pot. He does not carry a race card, he carries a deck of race cards. He has one for every situation. Whether it applies or not does not matter. He acheives his objective by simply showing up and blasting the same old retoric. Even though the laws have been written and equality is what an individual makes of it, he is still marching in Selma. Each individual has the same opportunities if they have the motivation and intelligence to go after it. It is not an entitlement like many want to beleive, but a path that is difficult for anyone no matter what color they may be. Even Al has to say things have changed. As far as descrimination, the black community has been given many opportunities that other people do not have, but it is never enough for Mr. Sharpton. Would Al Sharpton have showed up in New York for his photo op if the victim had been Hispanic, White or Asian? I agree that Mr. Bells out and out murder was a horrific miscarrage of justice, but I do not need Al Sharpton to show up and make a spectical of himself in order for me to make that judgement. This kind of showboating is Al Sharpton earning his pay. Who else can go to jail one day and meet with the Governor of New York the next. The only other one that comes to mind  is good old Jesse J. who shares Al's compassion for stirring the pot. I do not beleive that the average educated black American depends on Al Sharpton to speak his outdated retoric on behalf of them. I grew up in the sixties and I have left that time where it should be, in the past. Dr. King had an agenda and made positive planned steps toward acheiving the goals that he thought would best move his agenda forward. He did not run all over the world for photo ops.  I cannot beleive Dr. King would approve of people like Sharpton using his legacy and the people he fought for all those years as a petty income for himself. Al Sharpton has an agenda and it is completly self promoting. What makes me have so much disdain for people like Sharpton is, you never see him doing anything proactively. It always has to be a national news story and  a photo op in order for him to book himself into the picture, literally. He is always looking for an oppotunity to share the headlines and stir that pot. Al Sharpton will never be looked back upon as a civil rights leader in the catagory of Dr. King. No, he will be seen as a exhibitionist and a self promoting opportunist that has done absolutly nothing to further the black community's cause.