Thursday, April 12, 2007

Political Cartoon: Imus v Sharpton


What do you think of the cartoon?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that Al Sharpton in an un-credible voice. U believe that any time a minority makes an accusation, he blindly sides with them.

This has caused him some embarassing campaigns such as his support for the black female stripper from Duke, who lied and accused members of the Lacrosse team of raping her.

His buggest embarassment came in 1987, when a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley went missing and was found four days later. She claimed that at least two and possibly six white men, one of them carrying a badge, had repeatedly raped her in the woods in Orange County, New York. Sharpton took up Brawley's cause and defended her refusal to cooperate with prosecutors, saying that asking her to meet with New York's attorney general (who had been asked by Gov. Mario Cuomo to supervise the investigation) would be like "asking someone who watched someone killed in the gas chamber to sit down with Mr. Hitler." According to the Associated Press, Sharpton and Brawley's lawyers asserted "on 33 separate occasions" that a local prosecutor named Steven Pagones "had kidnapped, abused and raped" Brawley. There was no evidence, and Pagones was soon exonerated. Sharpton then accused a local police cult with ties to the Irish Republican Army of perpetrating the alleged assault. The case fizzled when a security guard for Brawley's lawyers testified that the lawyers and Sharpton knew Brawley was LYING. A grand jury investigation concluded in late 1988 that Brawley "was not the victim of forcible sexual assault" and that the whole thing was a hoax. The report specifically exonerated Pagones, and in 1998 Pagones won a defamation lawsuit against Sharpton, Brawley, and Brawley's lawyers. Sharpton was ordered to pay Pagones $65,000. Johnnie Cochran and other Sharpton benefactors subsidized the payment.

I find that Sharpton is a blind supporter of minorities, but this is ignored because he is a voice for a people that have little of this.

Anonymous said...

i think ian is missing the point of the cartoon. its really not bout sharpton, rather sheding light on the "insider" rule. Had a black person said it, controversy would not have arisen, but as mentioned in the cartoon, it was a famous white person.

of course its ridiculous, and many people in the black community would agree, the customary use of bitch and nigger is actually foolish even when blacks say it to each other.