The Focus Is All Skewed

Yes, here is another thing to read regarding the whole Don Imus scandal. While I in no way condone what Imus said I feel it has been taken way too far. I normally don't like posting about current events like this on here but this is just ridiculous. It makes me sick seeing idiots like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson calling for his termination. Sharpton and Jackson are racist bigots who should feel disgraced for everything they stand for. If I recall correctly Jesse Jackson once referred to heavily Jewish areas of New York as "Heimi Town." I didn't see any resignation from him, nor did I even hear any apology. Then you have Al Sharpton who might take racism to a new level especially as an Anti-Semite. Sharpton once referred to Jews as "diamond merchants" and encouraged violent rioting in Crown Heights. The reason for the riots were because a Hasidic Jew named Yosef Lifsh's car went out of control and struck two young black boys and killed one of them. At the young boys funeral Sharpton said:

The world will tell us he was killed by accident. Yes, it was a social accident. It's an accident to allow an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown Heights. It is an accident to think that we will keep crying and never stand up and call for justice. What type of city do we have that would lie on our children and allow politics to rise above the blood of innocent babies? Have we lost all our moral fiber? Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights.

Following that were violent riots in Jewish neighborhoods with rioters screaming "Hitler didn't do his job" and "Kill the Jew." There are a number of other anti-semetic things Shartpon has done and you can easily search the internet to stumble upon a number of them. People can sit and complain about how terrible Imus' comments were but lets not forget that much worse is said every day on TV and heard in rap and hip-hop. How about people stop attacking easy targets and start with the larger groups. I'm almost positive these Rutgers girls own Ipod's where 80% of the artists on there have mentioned a derogatory term similar to what Imus said.

Really all I'm trying to get across is that there is an enormous double standard in America. People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson need to be stopped for ridiculous claims of trying to erase racism and social injustices in America because in the end they are a huge reason for them. I honestly believe that the largest issue in our society and the biggest problem in the world is racism and those idiots (Sharpton and Jackson) along with ignorant rappers are creating a greater problem in America in terms of racism than people like Don Imus yet all the focus is on him. If you don't believe that I honestly believe that racism is the biggest issue facing the world, you can search back in my blog where I posted about the seriousness of racism in the world and how it is negatively affecting human rights cases such as Rwanda and Hurrican Katrina, obviously the buck doesn't stop at those two instances, there should be intervention in countries like the Ivory Coast and Uganda but of course no light is shed on the horrific things going on there. I realize this post is really all over the place but it is just an angry rant with thoughts freely flowing onto this page. If it seems like I am defending Imus than I probably did a poor job of writing, I believe he should be punished for his remarks, probably not to the extent of being fired but he should be punished. What needs to be done in America is to encourage people of all races to cut down on racial remarks.