If this isn’t the first time you’ve ever heard of Al Sharpton, none of this will surprise you. Google ‘Tawana Brawley’ for a clue. But since this is a man who is taken at least a little seriously and is one of the biggest race hustlers in America, thus making him an asshole, I’ll do my part to spread the word about just how big a race-hustlin’ asshole he is.
Jennifer Hast gives the I’ve ever heard of the “Dunbar Village rape case”, in which the following happened last year:
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Mother and son huddled together, battered and beaten, in the bathroom — sobbing, wondering why no one came to help.
Surely the neighbors had heard their screams. The walls are thin, the screen doors flimsy in this violence-plagued housing project on the edge of downtown.
For three hours, the pair say, they endured sheer terror as the 35-year-old Haitian immigrant was raped and sodomized by up to 10 masked teenagers and her 12-year-old son was beaten in another room.
Then, mother and son were reunited to endure the unspeakable: At gunpoint, the woman was forced to perform oral sex on the boy, she later told a TV station.
Afterward, they were doused with household cleansers, perhaps in a haphazard attempt to scrub the crime scene, or maybe simply to torture the victims even more. The solutions burned the boy’s eyes.
The thugs then fled, taking with them a couple of hundred dollars’ worth of cash, jewelry and cell phones.
By “burned”, the article means the boy was blinded with nail polish remover. Just so you know.
Four of the ten black teenaged boys who committed the crime against this black woman and her black son have been caught and charged with armed sexual battery, and are facing life in prison. There’s conclusive DNA and other physical evidence against them, and they have signed confessions.
So guess what Al Sharpton and the NAACP are doing? Protesting in front of the State Attorney’s Office’s, in support of the rapists. They say it’s “unfair” that these animals are being held without bail.
This is because some white kids in a neighboring city were recently charged with gang-raping two drunk female friends, and were released on bail. Which means that RACISM is in play!
Sharpton said the black teens remain jailed and the white teens are free on bond, despite them committing the “same act.”
“To have different reactions to the same set of circumstances is a crime in itself,” Sharpton said.
The real crime here is that a man who doesn’t understand the meaning of simple English words is a wealthy preacher who’s regularly featured on news programs as a “black activist”.
The simple English word I’m referring to is “same”. Dictionaries, which are readily available in Al Sharpton’s location, say:
same
adj.
1. Being the very one; identical.
2. Similar in kind, quality, quantity, or degree.
3. Conforming in every detail: according to the same rules as before.
4. Being the one previously mentioned or indicated; aforesaid.
Sorry, Sharpton. Just…sorry. Your dog’s not hunting on this one.
The white kids from Boca raped two girls who were partying with them consensually. That is atrocious and I hope they suffer greatly in prison, but there was no other crime than rape that night.
But the black kids from Dunbar broke into a home and for three hours they raped a woman and her child, beat them, forced the mother at gunpoint to do something truly unspeakable to her 12-year-old son, doused them both in chemicals and tried to set them on fire, and then committed theft to round it all out.
Those two set of circumstances are not the “same”, asshole. Deal with it. That’s why there’s a “different reaction”.
So, Sharpton and the NAACP once again prove that facts, reason, logic, and real justice are the last things on their list of priorities. The good news is that many blacks are .
I for one am comforted that The Reverend and the NAACP are always seeking Equality and Justice for us all. I shudder to think where we would be without them.
There’s probably a word for tribal “church” leaders who sell their followers into lifelong mental slavery and victimhood. It’s probably not a nice word, either. , and I just couldn’t agree with you more about Sharpton and his ilk. Rich hucksters of any color just make me tired.
Dear God. Words fail me.
Let us pray that The Wormhole sees this as a “teachable moment” to educate benighted Americans on the root causes of crime.
Sharpton has nothing to lose by saying stuff like this. The people who trust him will never question his logic and anyone with a functioning brain already thinks Sharpton is full of shit. The only outcome of this stunt is media attention plus the status quo in terms of credibility. All in all, a net win for Al.
I cannot stand Al Sharpton.
But that’s just me being a typical white person.
OH how I wish a black person would beat the shit out of Al Sharpton. Not because I think that should happen to anyone, but the conflict of interest would be HYSTERICAL. He could press charges and cry racism on his attacker’s behalf at the same time – and those who follow him would say it was all completely logical, just like armyofdog said.
oh my God. i wonder how those two are. i wonder if the ten boys are truly sorry for what they did. the christian part of me is saying that they should be forgiven and serve their sentence. but the vengeful side of me wants to castrate each of those boys and feed them their penises. it would seem only fair, considering what they did to the poor woman and her child. i’m disturbed, sorry.
al seems to put race above human well being. that’s just me. i hope mother and child have found peace.
ArmyofDog has it right (and Dog’s blog rulz, btw). It’s a cultural divide in even the processing of information. It was that way in Mexico, too. You could present a question to Mexicans like this (and we did): a Volkswagen Bug and a Mercedes were in an accident… who should pay?– and 9/10 of them would just automatically say, “the Mercedes driver should pay!”
Not the first thought or question about culpability, just the idea that the privileged should underwrite every single moment of the life of one less fortunate.
I very much dislike the term “hate crime” but this should qualify.
Sharpton’s nothing but a bloviating attention whore. My apologies to whores everywhere.
/sarc off
Yep, and those people are flooding into the United States and nobody in government, in either party, has any problem whatsoever with it.
Third World, here we come.
Rachel-
That article is a bit off-subject; but I thought it’d inspire a rant (or two).
I’m sure however the rape, beatings, theft and forced mother-on-son-oral-sex is somehow tied to slavery 150 years ago. Right?
Isn’t that Sharpton’s gig? Every black crime should be forgiven because of our white ascestral failings?
…evil. Plain and simple evil. Fucking monsters.
I am so fucking angry right now. Who are these people?!
I can’t even deal with this. I’m a white guy. But me and a Louisville Slugger would have happily prevented or otherwise adjuticated (in Biblical proportions) this crime.
Where I come from it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6. The “neighbors” would have done better to believe this axiom – though the race baiters, like Sharpton, will always allow violence upon his own people rather than deal with the fact that the majority of white people are actually on the side of victims of every race and creed. God damn him.
I am saddened beyond words, and beyond measure. Somebody give me a time machine.
Try this one for a real black on black horror story. I wonder if ol’ al will be running to Illinois to help these animals out? Actually, I shouldn’t call them animals. Animals have a sort of inborn decency; and I like animals. These savages I would happily and gladly take a month to exterminate.
Ever get the feeling that we are trapped in a carnival where all the rides go to hell, all the hawkers are insane, and the manager is the devil?
No?
Okay, then.
They say this town is full of cozenage,
As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
And many such-like liberties of sin:
If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.
(Antipholus of Syracuse, in A Comedy of Errors, I, II, 97)
A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeek and gibber in the Roman streets:
As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,
Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands,
Was sick almost to doom-day with eclipse:
And even the like precurse of fierce events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates,
And prologue to the omen coming on,
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Unto our climatures and countrymen.
(Horatio, in Hamlet, I, I, 112)
‘Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: Now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.
(Hamlet, in Hamlet, III: II)
…sometime am I
All wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness.
(Caliban, in The Tempest, II: II)
Pass the Thorazine, Neddy.
I will fight Al Sharpton.
Set it up. Get the venue. I will fight him.
No-holds-barred cage match. One man and one race-baiting bigot enter, only one man exits.
/fantasy
Sharpton baits with race,
rambles like a drunken fool
imbibed with hatred.
At some point in our history, a lot of people stood up and realized that the only way their position was going to get heard was if they took their message to any extreme possible. Consequently, we have advocacy groups for and against every single cause and belief imaginable that ensure that, no matter what happens, most Americans will never see life outside of a series of false dichotomies imposed by attention-seeking single issue nutbags. Worse yet, the only way most of these nutbags will remain employed is by maintaining the existence of a dichotomy, any dichotomy, even when one no longer exists.
This, I’m afraid, is precisely where Al Sharpton and his crew fit in. They preach the existence of a dichotomy – unequal treatment from the law depending on skin color – that very well might exist. However, they know that there is no way they can spread that message by fingering a sensible case because pointing out sensible cases is sensible… and sensible is boring. Just ask anyone that thinks of buying a minivan. So, they pick cases like these, or the Jenna Eight, or Don Imus, or whatever else they can find that they know will elicit the most anger from “whitey” – then they use that to say, “Ha! See? Whitey doesn’t like it when we speak ‘truth’ to power! They’re against us!” Sadly, many people will fall for it, and thus their existence continues to perpetuate itself.
There is only one way we will ever see the end of this, and it takes two steps:
1. The target audience of the likes of Al Sharpton must reject his message, and the message of those like him, completely and totally, just like “whitey” ignores David Duke. This is already beginning.
2. The rest of us need to learn to not take these jokers seriously. Don’t pay attention to them. Don’t mind them. They’re just as crazy as the David Dukes of the world, and the sooner we treat them with the same level of respect we treat every other race-baiting demagogue, the sooner this will all be over.
Those two go hand in hand. Attention whores thrive on attention. Without it, they have nothing to sell, nothing to peddle, no reason to exist.
Al Sharpton is a supporter of Obama.
, it can’t hurt.
DoubleTapper
Spot-on, Oatworm.
Have you noticed that the phenomenon of hyper-polarization has gotten much worse over the last 10-20 years? I don’t think we’re imagining it, and I think I’ve identified the cause. It’s an unintended consequence of two otherwise good things: the demise of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of the Web.
The Fairness Doctrine had many faults, but its one undeniable effect was to homogenize the output of the various network news programs. In public discourse we were all generally familiar with the same set of arguments and the same set of facts.
Ending the Fairness Doctrine allowed new opinions to enter the arena. But the old networks, probably as much out of habit as anything else, still largely reported the same material. Thus the public discourse was now informed by many more opinions, but still by the same set of facts.
Then along came the Web — and with it, the rise of the citizen journalist. This brought not just new opinions but also new facts to our political life, most dramatically in Matt Drudge’s revelation of the Monica Lewinsky affair. (Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff had actually done most of the legwork, but Newsweek was sitting on the story — and in doing so, presuming that the traditional MSM monopoly on facts would hold.) The floodgates opened, with alternative media and blogs proliferating wildly. There are now thousands upon thousands of small communities of like-minded people, talking among themselves, nourishing each other with facts and opinions that fit their views and insulating themselves from ones that don’t. Contra William F. Buckley’s famous quip, we now feel entitled to our own opinions and our own facts.
It is against this backdrop that we seek to find a 51% consensus on any topic whatsoever. Without a common factual predicate, rational discourse becomes impossible; yet rational discourse is the cornerstone of enlightened self-government. We are, in short, in quite a pickle. And I am at a loss as to how to get out of it.
Another wanker who needs a punch in the throat.
The truly sad thing is that Sharptongue KNOWS that he’s making bad things worse, but is interested only in feathering his nest at the expense of other blacks … feeding off white “guilt”, of course.
While black people that truly care and are willing to speak out, like Cosby, as castigated by those they want to help.
I think Sharptongue should be tied to a mule and dragged across 40 acres – of cactus and sharp rocks.
jjs said:
No, you’re human. Any human being should be absolutely disgusted by what this trash inflicted on another human being.
Rachel-thanks for spreading the word
Sharpton is like Arafat in the way shit always seems to roll off of him and onto everyone around him. Sharpton, without a doubt, should be in jail for the fiasco and fraud from the Tawanda case years ago. Instead, he has become an “activist” which doesn’t mean what it use to in society. Now it means media sanctioned criminal.
Arafat was a fucking terrorist personally responsible for the deaths of Americans and was invited to the white house by that piece of shit Clinton. Suddenly he was a world leader not a terrorist cocksucker (literally).
I know this is totally out in left field, but it is always the comparison that pops up when i read shit like this. Some crackpot asshat who is legitimized by media or politicians always calls to mind Arafat.
Sharpton calling himself a Reverend is amusing. Guess he missed that whole bearing false witness thing in school.
/hormonal rant
[I gibbered incoherently for a few minutes after reading this, then I had to go punch something.]
First of all, the guys who may have raped the co-eds have at least something of a case. With the number of white chicks who screw a guy and then get humper’s remorse, I can see those guys believing their drunk party girls wanted them. That said, if they’re guilty, throw them in a small, dark room for a very long time.
But there is NO way one can claim a mistake or a misunderstanding or a he-said/she-said in a three-hour long torture fest that involved things I can’t even think about without wanting to vomit.
How could this poor woman’s neighbors have heard her screaming and begging and not come to help her or even just called the police? How could they just sit there?
That, to me, is the most disturbing part of this story. There have always and will always be marauding packs of wolves, especially the two-legged kind. And they have always done terrible things to undefended women and children. But it used to be you could count on your neighbors to help in times of need. It used to be community meant “we’re together” not “we live in the same place.” I am just blown away by stories of people who hear others in need and just continue on with their lives. Did they just turn up their TVs and stereos to drown out her cries? Did they roll their eyes and think “get it over with?” Did they feel even the tiniest bit of shame? Or did they consider calling the police but decide that it wasn’t their problem? I don’t know how I’d react in that kind of situation, because I’ve never been there. But I have a hard time believing I could just sit there.
To Al Sharpton’s god,
FUCK YOU and the prophet you rode in on!
I AM and I approve this message
Satan ,The original Scapegoat
Simply put, they were afraid. That’s the effect of gang culture.
It’s heartening to read the rightfully outraged comments on the blog linked at the end of your story.
Apparently one “Rev. Marty Mc Michael” over there is preparing to play the “racist system” card. Let’s see if anyone calls him out on it, other than the one subsequent entry requesting a “clarification.”
In reading this, I can’t say I care too much about what Reverend Al is up to. He’s a fraud and a liar and anyone with an IQ above 70 already knows it.
My main thought about this story is this: Vlad Tepes had the right idea about punishment. Take all ten of these thugs, impale them on large stakes set into the ground and leave them there to slowly die. Make sure the footage is on every network, public and cable, in the country. Repeat as necessary. I think reduction in crime rates would be dramatic.
Also, note to “Rev” Sharpton: if equality’s what you’re after, your position (such as it is) might be a lot less offensive to the victims and their sympathizers if you advocated for the white rapists to be denied bail, instead of suggesting these sick bastards should receive it.
Perhaps even I could get behind that.
Well for any good it will do I sent the link to everyone at Fox since they seem to be in love with this asshole and asked them to ban this race bating piece of shit from their network. I am also sending to every blog I can think of.
This has to stop!!
Big fat Al is King racist and the top dog of keeping racism alive.
“Blake H Says:
I for one am comforted that The Reverend and the NAACP are always seeking Equality and Justice for us all. I shudder to think where we would be without them.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:23 pm ”
I am going to assume your being sarcastic because the only other conclusion would be your a blithering idiot.
DISGUSTING! Every one of these sociopathic freaks should be shot and their parents locked away for 40 yrs. And Sharpton should be exposed as the schmuck he is by the MSM…
Oh, wait… Sharpton has spent YEARS sucking the MSM weiner to avoid the very exposure he deserves. I guess that’s why he can go on FOX’s O’Reilly and MSNBC and yuk it up with the rich and famous.
O’Reilly should be fired for giving his buddy Al a pass on this one.
If Sharpton was killed in a drive-by shooting tomorrow at the hands of the very black thugs that he usually apologies for, I’d let out a brief smirk at the perfect poetic irony of it all, and then not ever think of the man again.
I’ve long held that some people are just no damned-good, and this world would be a better place without them. The Rev. Sharpton is one such person.
The Black churchgoers of West Palm Beach should run Sharpton and his minions out of town on a rail.
Something to be said about THE LIKES of sharpton-jackson- wright or other Blatent Racist. Notice- their names were not capitalized nor titled “REVERAND. That was not a typo
YOU JUST CAN’T FIX STUPID!!!!!!!
If the woman and her son were black American, Sharpton and the NAACP might stir; however, they’re Caribbean. They’re “Arrivants” who are not down with the struggle of the “Descendants”; so, why bother to fight on their behalf against some “brothas”? Sick sonsabitches, that Sharpton and the NAACP!
This is off topic, but not out of character with this blog since my story involves a dog.
(I think we could all use a break from this sordid tale, right?)
Anyway, about 10 years ago I lived in a second floor apartment. My downstairs neighbor, a single mother with two young daughters, bought a Jack Russell terrier puppy. Things seemed OK at first, but as time went on I began to notice something. The mother worked long hours, the daughters were in school or maybe at friends’ houses, and the dog was alone much of the time.
At first they kept him tied up in the yard, where he barked incessantly. I would see him when I arrived home from work and would go over to pet him and talk to him a little. He was quiet and friendly during those moments. But invariably when I got up to go inside, he started barking again.
I guess some of the neighbors must have complained about his barking, because she bought a dog crate and started keeping him indoors when she was away. Now I could hear him clearly downstairs. Besides barking, he would also whine, howl, screech, whimper, wail, and moan. It was nonstop, and it was absolutely heartrending. Honest to God, he sounded like he was being tortured. He was like an innocent man imprisoned in solitary confinement crying out, “What have I done to deserve this?”
I don’t remember how long I let it go on–too long, no doubt–but I finally took my neighbor aside and explained to her that he was clearly not happy here. He was desperately lonely and needed companionship and probably space to run around. A short time later she told me that she had given him to a friend who lived on a farm. I never saw him again after that; I hope he was happier in his new home.
(Back to the topic at hand: Mightysamurai was right. The neighbors were probably scared shitless to confront the thugs, and with good reason. There were no thugs in my dog story, so I had nothing to fear in talking to my neighbor about it.)
This man is no leader, he is a true asshole and some day this racist will pay his dues!
Why dose AL SHARPTON was to save a rapists from just punishment he ias bad as that idiot NORMAN MAILER who went to bat for that convicted killer JACK HENERY ABBOTT i mean their always a bunch of liberals wanting to spare some child molester or rapist I wonder if any of those bleeding hearts would want to free CHARLES MANSON and take him around to all those fancy hollywood dinner parties