Al Sharpton

This should make for an interesting thread....

So whenever I hear this joker mentioned on my TV set or in a news article I always tend to cringe because his appearance almost always seems to be a harbinger of an "OH LAWD BLACK PEOPLES BEIN PLIGHTED AND WE'S BEIN' WRONGED" type-situation.

Even in problems where I know that the incidents in question are most certainly not right and not cool, when he gets all involved and uber vocal, the moments where he comes up almost seem to dissolve and de-evolve into circus-like proportions. I once had a friend of mine describe him as "the black and mild Nancy Grace, only he's been around longer and didn't get the memo that the jheri curl is dead."

But maybe it's just me who thinks that way and maybe I'm thinking of it in the wrong perspective....so enlighten me on what you think:

GFF is a pretty diverse place so we're bound to get a plethora of answers on a guy that causes his fair share of political and racial controversy. What are your opinions of this guy and his endless crusades in topics that are almost ALWAYS race based who also ALWAYS seems to show up to have an opinion or speak out against whatever happens be the situation wrong or right? Do you think Sharpton's a good egg, a good egg who is just confused and does stupid things, or do you just want to usually tell him to shut up and go the hell away? Is he a "race exploiitator" as many have called him or does he do good work towards issues concerning the relations of people of color VS white people?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Balcony Heckler

personally myself, I don't see why skin color, race, ethnicity, sex, creed, what have you matters so much, I look at everyone around me, I see people, that's it. we're all people through it all

Because unfortunately - no matter what country you are in or what ethnicity you are - a lot of people tend to hate people who are different for a lot of different reasons. Be it people hating on gays, people hating on blacks, people hating on whites, pr other countries hating on other countries: hate begets hate. Unfortunately there's no such thing as a utopia and never will be at the rate we're all going. =\

/end thoughtful banter and depressing pessimism

There's nowhere I can't reach.