Video: Sharpton disappointed in Jackson, makes same basic point as Hasselbeck
posted at 3:30 pm on July 18, 2008 by Allahpundit
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From yesterday’s Early Show, a few hours before Whoopi concluded that asking for a pan-racial moratorium on the N-bomb was evidence of white insensitivity towards blacks. Skip ahead to halfway through to find Sharpton making the same argument as Hasselbeck, albeit towards a different goal. She wants cultural common ground, he wants clean hands when challenging white racism. Hence the mistake in Elisabeth’s approach with Goldberg. She’s trying to relate to her in integrationist terms instead of via the currency of identity politics. My advice? Invite Sharpton on the show and have him pitch Whoopi on the idea that eschewing the N-word is now a hallmark of “authenticity.” I bet she’ll drop it post haste.
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Of course? Why would a racisct like Whoopi take racial advice from some “skinny cracker bitch” (because you know that’s what she’s thinking)?
ErikTheRed on July 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I love watching the “race Pimp Schuffle”.
saiga on July 18, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Tawana Brawley could not be reached for comment…
Bugler on July 18, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Al Sharpton: ” this is not the Rev Jackson that we all know.”
LMAO..
Chakra Hammer on July 18, 2008 at 3:41 PM
I really don’t understand why the Imus statement “nappy-headed hos” is cause for riots, yet when Jackson says “n!gger” it a ho-hummer. Can anybody explain that?
Andy in Agoura Hills on July 18, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Sharpton makes same basic point as Hasslebeck, yet Hasslebeck making said point makes me drool and Sharpton doing so makes me vomit.
carbon_footprint on July 18, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Good one, and am also LMAO!
Karmi on July 18, 2008 at 3:47 PM
White ho’s take naps too!
infidel on July 18, 2008 at 3:47 PM
Are the, so called, Reverend’s…. apart of the church of racism?
I think so. It keeps their face on TV.
But it’s the Jackson-Sharpton-Woopi- and all in between - keep the status quo- keep racism alive - keep up the dream -
It is who we know them to be.
Kini on July 18, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Okay. We get it. The use of the ‘N’ word is bad.
Now let’s move on to the next bad racist word, ‘Black Hole’. I’m thinking that the Space Science term ‘Black Hole’ should be changed. It offends important black people. Does Reverend Al have any suggestions? Space-Time Vacuum Perforation maybe?
SilverStar830 on July 18, 2008 at 3:52 PM
A few years back the term “my nigga” was used widely among young people of all colors as an endearment. This made me think that it would push it’s root into oblivion with the blurring of spelling, sound and meaning. Apparently this is not to be allowed. Some peoples jobs rely on it.
By banning/spotlighting it you just increase it’s potency.
BL@KBIRD on July 18, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Why didn’t CBS Bleep out the N-Word when Jackson said “we need to stop using this word N_-__-” the didn’t bleep it.. how come? that was file footage not live..
Chakra Hammer on July 18, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Silly white boy, Jesse didn’t write the double standard, he just follows it!!
Hey Allah, no follow up discussion on the view after yesterday’s fiasco? I wanna see Whoopi wriggle her way out of disagreeing with the Rev Sharpton… Two different worlds and all that!
Califemme on July 18, 2008 at 3:53 PM
can’t imagine how much fun its going to be to have 4 years of this crap if obambi somehow wins.
elduende on July 18, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Light and dark broadly correspond to life and death - the purest light being white, and the purest darkness being black.
Is this evidence of the fundamental racist nature of existence?
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Still is among suburban high school students in Elk Grove, CA.
I still hate, it, though,and stomp on it firmly whenever I hear it.
Bob's Kid on July 18, 2008 at 4:03 PM
I really don’t understand why the Imus statement “nappy-headed hos” is cause for riots, yet when Jackson says “n!gger” it a ho-hummer. Can anybody explain that?
I think that is why E Hass started to cry, you cant argue with crazy. Trying to figure out where these people come from is like trying to reason with a 4yo.
TroubledMonkey on July 18, 2008 at 4:07 PM
LOL you must live near the DFW metroplex. John Wiley Price-less
carbon_footprint on July 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Fred Harari, the Jewish owner of Freddy’s is disapointed in Sharpton being disapointed in Jackson.
Alden Pyle on July 18, 2008 at 4:10 PM
This is a hilarious bit Conan did on a couple of ocassions, but I could only find one video posted… Awesome though:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-jlASsaL9co
RightWinged on July 18, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Isn’t it a pathetically sad statment on the state of affairs in the black community today, in American, when such a vile race-hustling extortionist race-baiting fraud as Al Sharpton, is actually talking commonsense, and is on the “wrong” side of this issue?
Wow, pathetic!
That’s what 40 years of activist Democratic Leftist racist anti-American/Self-hating/self-loathing/while-guilt-driven agendas can do to people; it turns their minds into mush!
Sad, disgusting, pathetic..
Dale in Atlanta on July 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Let’s not forget black box, black market, black Friday, Black & Decker, blackberry, blacktop, blacklist, blackout, black jack, black eye, blackened catfish, black angus beef, Black Eyed Peas, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, AC/DC’s Back in Black, the band Blackfoot, black people with the last name “Black”, white people with the last name “Black”, the town of Blackpool, and of course black crayons.
Did I miss anything?
ynot4tony2 on July 18, 2008 at 4:18 PM
The term “Black Hole” has always offended Russians, and they even have a lot of important physicists.
Yet somehow the term is still with us.
NeighborhoodCatLady on July 18, 2008 at 4:20 PM
The point is that the ‘n-word’ is not racist. It is something that is easy for race baiters to point to in order to be ‘offended’. They don’t want it to go away because it would be difficult for them to find things to be offended about.
They used to point to separate schools, water fountains, buses, but now there’s nothing overt to point to.
The only reason that this word is considered ‘racist’ is because of the ‘outrage’ that people like Jackson and Sharpton feign at its use. If they would ignore the word when it is uttered (like they do when they hear it amongst themselves) then it won’t matter any longer.
The ‘n-word’ (the only reason I use ‘n-word’ is the filter will not allow me to post the actual word) is not in any way shape or form racist, nor does it prove racism. . . it is an excuse to be ‘offended’.
Freedom of speech does not mean you are free not to be offended. Whoopi still wants it out there so that she can be ‘offended’ when someone repeats what she says and call for them to be fired. . . though she can say anything with impunity.
ThackerAgency on July 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Jesse Jackson = Race bait-er
Al Sharpton = Pot meet kettle
byteshredder on July 18, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Isn’t “nigger” a derogatory term to impugn the negro race? How is that not racist? I know that there is so much that is incorrectly labeled as ‘racist’ to justify feigned outrage, but this isn’t part of that fraud.
Are you conflating “nigger” and “nigga”? The latter being arguably not racist, of course.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 4:36 PM
It was a little easier to admire the civil rights leaders, both black and white, of yester-year than the modern ones.
Back then, bravery was a white man serving and employing blacks in his restaurant, knowing there very well might be hostile bigots intending to do him harm when he left the building.
Now, bravery is giving a speech in support of affirmative action to a cheering crowd, with a personal security detail waiting outside to escort you to your motorcade.
ynot4tony2 on July 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Blackfive.
baldilocks on July 18, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Black Sheep
carbon_footprint on July 18, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Isn’t he in jail yet?
peacenprosperity on July 18, 2008 at 5:08 PM
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I’m tired of talking about whoopi.
peacenprosperity on July 18, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Isn’t “nigger” a derogatory term to impugn the negro race? How is that not racist? I
Because people are ignorant to the origin of the word, and by itself, the world is not racist, and its not even a “bad” word!
The Portuguese gave named the river in West Africa, when they were exploring down there in the 15th Century, the “Niger River” from their word for “black” because the water is dark colored due to all the tanins in the water from the tropical jungle/trees.
Since it was the “Niger River”, the people who lived along its banks, became “Niggers”, or those who live along the banks of the Niger River.
It later was extended to anyone with black skin.
Of course, with the slave trade, and slavery, and then Jim Crow, etc., it was the Connotations of contempt, denigration, suppression, etc., that were imbued into the word, that made it so evil.
The bottomline; you could put those same hateful and negative connotations into ANY word; even “broccoli”, and make it negative/bad stereotype. The whole looking down sideways, the sneering, and the contempt that is put into the use of the word when delivered at a receipient, is what gives it the horrific connotations; not the intrinsic meaning of the word itself.
It’s interesting, there is a similar situation that occurred in another group of people, about 30 years ago.
The word “mutawali” in Arabic, means, literally “Adherents to the House of Ali”.
This refers to Ali, the nephew of the Prophet Mohammed, who became leader of the Islamic community after Mohammed’s death; and Ali’s followers of course became the Shiites, or Shia, as we know them today.
In Lebanon in Particular, instead of “Shia” or “Shiite”, it became fashionable to refer to Shia as “Mutawali”; but the Connotation became more than the literal meaning; “mutawali” became a substitute” for “ignorant country bumkin illiterate piece of crap” type of thing…
The use of “mutawali”, directed towards a Shia, became a “fightin” word; almost with the exact same history, connotation, etc., as “nigger”.
In the 70’s, with the eruption of the Sunni-Shia-Chritian Civil War in Lebanon, the Hezbollah Militias, decided almost spontaneously, to suddenly adopt the term “mutawali” as a badge of honor, of pride, of defiance…..
In essence, among the Shia of Lebanon, over the past 30 years, “mutawali” has become the transformation of “nigger” into “nigga”!
As far as I’m concerned personally though; two wrongs don’t make a “right”.
I reiterate what I said on the other thread: As my daddy taught me when I’m young, if you have no respect for yourself, how do you expect respect from someone else?
Its the same with using the words “bitches” or “hoes” to refer to women; if the woman accept that type of thing, it degrades them as well as the people who use it.
And when you allow people, ANYONE to talk to you like that, you empower the disrespect, and the crappy way they treat you; in other words, you accept what they do to you!
Not very smart…
Dale in Atlanta on July 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Didn’t Kwame Kilpatrick bury that word a year ago? Oh, wait, he did dig it back up for that state of the city address… Ummmm, nevermind…
Candy Slice on July 18, 2008 at 5:34 PM
I’m hoping that, one day, after beating this dead horse, ‘racism’, that societies at large can turn the freakin’ page and get over it. Someone calls u a nigger and u don’t like it. Take it up with them. Leave me out of it.
I could care less.
Your feelings are hurt? Try growing up. (this post is only for people over 6)
We’re talking about words. When someone brings a knife or a gun to the fight, let me know, I’ll try to help. Until then…get over it.
bridgetown on July 18, 2008 at 5:35 PM
I meant to add in the above, the example of the use and meaning of the word “mutawali” in Arabic, proves it is the intent and the connocation given to the word, as opposed to the word itself, that imparts the meaning.
It’s interesting that the Shia, and the Black community, have used the same approach to dealing with the word; basically turning it around and adopting it as a badge of honor.
I personally think that is a backwards way of thinking; its the equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome in a way, that’s why I think it’s mental, debilitating, and pathetic to take that approach, but hey, if the idiots want to be able to use that word, let them, it just gives liscense to all the real idiots in the world to continue to use it, and it doesn’t heal any racial rifts, it just exacerbates them and makes them linger longer.
Which is why I think the Left encourages it; it creates racial divides, empowers racial resentment, excuses reverse racism, advocates affirmitive action, callously builds the cult of victimization, encourages hate, and despair, and hopelessnes, and the Left and the Democrats in this country THRIVE on all those things, and rely on them to create and motivate their base!
Dale in Atlanta on July 18, 2008 at 5:36 PM
“Kike” from the Yiddish word “Kikel” means “I don’t know?” What are you talking about; when Jewish immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, and were asked for their “papers”, they’d reply “Kikel”, and that’s how “Kike” became a derogatory term for Jews”
“Wop”; from “With out Papers”; when Italian immigrants arrived in at Ellis Island, and were asked for their “papers”,and when they replied “We have none”, a notation: W.O.P was entered in the official ledger, meaning “With out papers”; and that is how “Wop” became a derogatory term for Italians!
“Spic” is self-explainator for “Spanish”
“Faggot” of course, means a type for a “torch”, made out of wood, soaked in oil wrapped rags etc.,; homosexuals were burned in England during the middle ages, and a “faggot” was thown on the wood pile to start the fire; and “faggot” became equated with homosexuals…or now “gays”.
There’s a logical explaination to any derogator, denigrating term; maybe if we explained and educated people as to the origin, and meaning of the words, and TALKED about them, instead of just acting like the don’t exist, and making it “racist” to even say it, (except if you come from that particular group, then you can use it as a term of endearment!); then maybe it would not only make people wise up, and educate them, but that they’d eventually just go away, or lose their negative “power”!
Dale in Atlanta on July 18, 2008 at 5:47 PM
I would love it if Whoopi and Sharpton argued over whether to use the N-word or not on the View. I wouldn’t bear to watch it, but it would be nice if it happened.
Maybe some of the viewers would realize their stupidity.
Grafted on July 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Is the good Rev. saying that he sometimes use the word “nigger”, to describe black people?
This man is such a lying fraud!
RMR on July 18, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Between the liberal New Yorker magazine cover, and Jesse Jackson’s hot-mic comments — clearly a liberal himself — I just wonder if there isn’t a leftwing conspiracy to garner some sympathy votes for Barack
ToddonCapeCod on July 18, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Does this mean the Justice Brothers will be breaking up?
kmcguire on July 18, 2008 at 8:35 PM
ynot4tony2,
“Did I miss anything?”
Duh - the Black Death!
exhelodrvr on July 18, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Funny I always thought that WAS the Jesse Jackson we all knew…race-baiter.
becki51758 on July 19, 2008 at 1:31 AM
Video: Sharpton disappointed in Jackson, makes same basic point as Hasselbeck
That’s not the Al Sharpton I once knew!
byteshredder on July 19, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Does Al Sharpton have a tapeworm or something? He looks like he’s lost 40 lbs and lightened his skin tone.
jcmorris on July 19, 2008 at 4:28 PM