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Originally Posted by LegalChef
OK, Al Sharpton did not go to Durham to play on anyone's emotions, he went down there to ensure that justice would be done on behalf of the alleged victim. The media had been "trying" the victim from the very beginning of the case as if she was the one who had been accused of a crime. He went down there to defend her in the face of all the accusations being thrown her way. That's all. He didn't go down there to villify anybody or stir anything up. It was already stirred up when he got there. Durham has had long-standing racial tension among its citizens. There were a lot of factors that played into people thinking that the lacrosse players were guilty, such as their less than stellar reputation on campus. There were black and white people who believed they were guilty.
For the record, the other stripper never testified to anything (the case never got to court). Furthermore, a neighbor backs up the claim about the racial remarks. Why aren't more people mad at the DA though? Why is Al your point of focus? When he found out that the DA had prosecuted this case without regard to evidence or ethics, he said on his radio show that the lacrosse players had a case against him. But that's not what you want to hear is it?
What I want to know is how is Al a racist? What have you actually heard or read (in quotation) that he said that was racist?
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Do some research. It's not hard to find. Did you catch the Hannity vs. Sharpton debate the other day? Hannity had a huge list of verified statements that Al Sharpton made that are incredibly racist and some that were very anti-Semitic.
Here are a couple I found with ease.....
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton#Accusations_of_racism_and_homophobia
Sharpton was quoted as saying to an audience at Kean College in 1994 that, “White folks was in caves while we was building empires … We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” Sharpton defended his comments by noting that the term “homo” was not homophobic but added that he no longer uses the term."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shar...n_Heights_Riot
A visiting rabbinical student from Australia by the name of Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, was killed during the rioting by a mob shouting “Kill the Jew.” Sharpton has been seen by some commentators as inflaming tensions with remarks such as “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house” and referring to Jews as “diamond merchants.”
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I also liked his famous "Jewing the numbers" rant concerning politics in South Carolina.