1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin’s funeral he rails against the “diamond merchants” — code for Jews — with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Freddy’s white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. “We will not stand by,” he warns malignantly, “and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Sharpton’s National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy’s are spat on and cursed as “traitors” and “Uncle Toms.” Some protesters shout, “Burn down the Jew store!” and simulate striking a match. “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers,” says Sharpton’s colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy’s, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as “Hymies” and to New York City as “Hymietown” in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson’s rocky relations with American Jews.

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The pot calling the kettle black, al sharpton
“exceeding the boundaries of socially acceptable behavior.???”
Now iregardless as to what Imus had stated. Why should anyone pay any mind to al sharpton? He is an ignorant race baiter.
imus was run off of the airways. sharpton should be run out of the public eye. The means? Ignore him, and maybe just maybe he will fade away.

Besides political correctness is taking away our freedom of speech. I think anyone should be able to say what they wish. No picking and choosing what is aceptable and what is not, by certain groups. Mark my words. It may not always be about what you are against, it may someday be about what ‘you’ say.

Thank you for sharing your opinion. I do disagree with you. There’s a difference between provocative humor and offensive humor.

Both Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson have access to powerful people in positions of influence that most people can’t reach. I wonder why you have an issue with these 2 “civil rights leaders and activists.” Do you personally know either of these men?

As evidenced by the recent news media coverage, a lot of powerful people agree that Imus behaved badly. Per his own admission, Imus agrees that he crossed the line.

According to the “Court Of Public Opinion,” this shock jock exceeded the boundaries of socially acceptable behavior. I’m not surprised that people are mobilizing and taking a stand against what women have tolerated with dignity and grace for too long now.

Thank you for sharing my post with your readers. I’m honored and truly grateful by your gesture.

Thank you for such encouraging words. All God’s children know that love will eventually conquer hate when all’s been read, said, and done.

After hearing the emotionally explosive remarks of Don Imus, I now know why God delayed the release of my first reality-based novel.

Thank you for sharing your insightful commentary.
You’ve said it all. Reading the Book of Esther taught me that God can change any person’s adverse circumstances “overnight.” I honestly believe that Esther’s wise decision to speak truth to power in love made the difference in the lives of the people she loved.

The same power God holds in His hands is available to all His children. But we must “act” like we believe that we can achieve great things with God’s help. “To win, we must begin within. If not now, when?”

Thank you for the compliment. I appreciate it whenever a woman acknowledges a man’s efforts to swim upstream in a downstream world. The media seldom shine a light on the real men who do good in their neighborhood daily. But God knows.

We, as men, still have a lot of work to do before the women we love, honor, and respect feel safe and secure in the presence of men. Please keep me and all the men who are taking a stand in your prayers.

Thank you for sharing your response to such an offensive, sexist reference to a woman by a man who apparently lacks the ability to control his tongue. Alas, Imus is not the only man guilty of humiliating women just to earn a living.

I share your pain because I’ve seen my wife’s tears and understand why so many women have become “emotionally unavailable.” No wonder so many good women are living single lives. We, as men, must fix this with God’s help.

Imus is the result of the cultural conditioning that tells men that it’s okay to sexually objectify women and disrespect women just to make a dollar. I believe it’s wrong to profit at the expense of another person.

Thank you for your comment and kind words. It’s still a struggle for me. I have prayed for Imus and asked God to show him how much harm his words have cause to the women who did nothing to deserve to hear such disrespectful and dehumanizing rhetoric.

Personally, I’ve survived a lot of ugly situations because of the ignorance and hatred of people who hated me because of the colour of my skin. I have learned that two wrongs still don’t make one right. I still fall just not as often.

Thank you contributing to my growth as I endeavor to understand women.

When the pain we feel becomes greater than our fear of the unknown, people will change. Don Imus has no reason to change because the consequences of his bad behavior and poor choice of words have not been painful enough to inspire him to change.

Thank you for commenting. I’ve learned that bad behavior doesn’t always mean that the person is a bad person. Good people do make bad decisions.

With Imus, however, his bad behavior is “habitual.” That’s why an apology won’t fix the millions of hearts his words have harmed. With power comes much responsibility.