Rappers Off The Hook: White Folk Have To Behave

By John E. Carey
Peace and Freedom
April 12, 2007

The message being sent by Al Sharpton and other supposed “Black Community Leaders” is this: Don Imus has to be fired by the white establishment because he used the language common to the ghetto and the rappers.

What? I can’t say ghetto?  You been in the “hood” recently? Does it look like a place of achievement and excellence to you?

In Washington D.C., The State of Adult Literacy Report, delivered to the mayor and D.C. Council members recently, found that nearly 36 percent, or 170,000, of the District’s residents are functionally illiterate, compared with 21 percent nationally.

This is a ghetto. 

Jesse and Oprah do not live here.

Are you kidding me?  They are on another planet.  Not with “their people.”

Listening to Al Sharpton rage on about Imus and his disgraceful behavior made me think: “Now a Black guy gets to lynch a white guy. Good going Al. Congratulations”

But racism cuts both ways and a lynching is a lynching.

Yet the white community, still ashamed over 100 years after Uncle Abe Lincoln freed the slaves and the nation tore it self up in the process, is still so ashamed of the sins of the fathers that we cave in. Every time.

What makes Brother Al Sharpton someone that anyone should listen to? He so castigated (falsely and without evidence) the New York Police, the people securing the law and order for Blacks and Whites alike, during the cocked up Tawana Brawley caper, that he was sued for slander and defamation.

In November of 1987, a 15-year-old girl named Tawana Brawley was found in upstate New York, covered with feces and racial slurs written in charcoal. Brawley, who is black, claimed to have been abducted and raped by six white law enforcement officers.

A decade later, the men who advised Brawley after the alleged incident — Al Sharpton, Alton Maddox, and lawyer C. Vernon Mason — are being sued by one of those six men: Steven Pagones, then a local prosecutor, now an assistant state attorney general.

Brawley’s case was ultimately thrown out in 1988 when a grand jury determined that her story was not credible. On July 13, 1998, after a trial lasting almost eight months, a jury found the three advisors liable for defaming Pagones.

Just over two weeks later, on July 29, the jury awarded Pagones $345,000 in damages.Anyone see an echo of the Duke University rape case? In this one, a Black gal that was certainly a stripper and possibly worse, accused a gang of White Upper Middle Class College guys of rape. No evidence though.

So this case has now crashed and burned. But before it did, the Black community around Duke ran around saying the sky is falling the ruining one of the finest lacrosse programs in the nation.

With no evidence.

Here are a couple of things I’d like people to think about. As a military man, I was trained in “Ready, Aim, Shoot.”

In our society today there is a whole lot of “Shoot, Ready, Aim.”

Want proof?

As a blogger I sometimes have cause to publish something on the internet that might be controversial. Or I might just spice up your day with a catchy headline. “China Killed Your Dog” is one, and Victoria at Now Public gave me one just today, “Is Your Car Gay?”

I found I would get 40 or 50 comments to such stories right away. Trouble was, my beady eyed computer was telling me only about 10 people read the article in its entirety.

One guy called me a “Pink panty wearing liberal.”  Later he confessed that the name “Peace and Freedom” threw him off.  He only read the name of the web site and the headline.  Then he wrote and pushed “send.”

Yikes.

I believe in Freedom of Speech but I believe more in clarity of thought.

“Shoot, Ready, Aim” is Uncle Al’s problem.

Want more proof? A communist Vietnamese college student from London attacked me unmercifly and said I didn’t know a thing about Vietnam. I sent back that I was married to a Vietnamese born woman, my entire family was Vietnamese American and I went to a church where only Vietnamese is spoken. I asked if he thought I was sleeping through all of this? I also told him if he was going to college in London his dad must be some communist fat cat. Turned out I scored a direct hit. His method: “Shoot, Ready, Aim” was not nearly as effective as thinking first THEN talking.

My second point is this. Who in the Land of the Brave has mentioned that this disgusting and demeaning street talk is a staple of the ghetto and the rappers who sell their trash there? I’ll tell you who: Bill Cosby and Juan Williams.

In my view those are the only two Black Leaders left in America. They speak the truth. Without using the “N” word.

And finally, what worthless, ugly, poisoned culture allows singers to use the “N” word freely, demeans women to the point of approving of violence against women, calls women “bitches” and “hos” and thinks that this is a good thing?

We need to get our act together, brothers.

Related on Don Imus:
http://johnib.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/racist-remarks-cost-imus-cbs-radio-job/
and:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/13/martin.imus/index.html?eref=yahoo