Al Sharpton

I see him as a race exploiter. He claims he wants racial equality, yet all he does is go out and find the most outrageous case of racism against blacks that he can, and makes a big deal out of it. Claims he's standing up for their rights, but really he's just getting up on high horse after high horse, pointing out the wrong instead of proactively pushing for the right. Racism isn't going to be solved through a media-whoring legal campaign against some local police force accused of racism-based police brutality.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

His root goal is laudable, but I think he's missing the mark, and has been for years. I don't think his virulent crusades end up helping end racism at all - they mostly just point out that it's there, and give it press coverage. Then someone wins money, or the media stops caring and we never find out the end result, or it's decided that something wasn't racially promoted, and then all of a sudden out pops Al Sharpton on the other side of the country, screaming bloody murder because another act of racism has occurred and no one's 'stood up' for those poor people's rights yet. Just seems a bit farcical to me. I don't do racism, but I don't see a need to fling racist situations in people's faces.

Unless it's me complaining that no one takes me seriously because I'm pale yellow. That's just funny.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Of course racism is ugly. Just doesn't mean that Al Sharpton has a viable position in the way he deals with it. *shrug*

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.