User:Jillianne Miller

Dear Public, I feel as though it is a crime that the infamous Al Sharpton is using his status as a rev. to boost his career by punishing the actions of Imus by overlooking for so long the actions of his own people. You cannot stop the racial hate between emotionally separated groups in society by selectively turning a blind eye for decades to the vulgar and meaningless hate in lyrics by your own group. Then when punishing another group make a stand and say well now we can do something about what is going on within our own group. That Sir is and always has been discrimination only in reverse. As Al Sharpton said on open air "you cannot have a repeat apologizer and something needed to be done" Well the same rules apply to his effort as well. Should we put his credibility on trial? I as a child and teen of the 80's have seen racially charged lyrics in songs for decades and Al Sharpton has yet to get involved. The only reason he is choosing to do so now is because his effort put forth in firing Imus is now under close observation. So is that not the same thing as a repeat apologizer? I think it is. I think Al Sharpton is a joke! He has an education but lets face it, why only use it to attack in such a passive aggressive manner. As a matter of fact when these lyrics were in question many years ago was it not in fact Rev. Al Sharpton going public saying "it was freedom of speech" and only music and it is up to the public to choose to listen to it or not? So now he wants to make a stand against this music and racially charged lyrics? I ask you this. How long does the other group have to lay down and take "reverse discrimination" and wait for people like Al sharpton to get around to doing something about it, yeah i see, after he attacks all the responses to it first. Only removing the action not the symptom. I think his credibility is in question here. I think it is about time that the people Al Sharpton is attacking need to grow a backbone and do something about it, because obviously Al Sharpton takes serious action only in the personal views of his own group, not using his authority to cure the symptom within his own group.

article written by; Jillianne Miller