everyone hates al

For the past (approximately) 12 years, I have been addicted to current events. I love to watch local and national news, and love to read newspapers from around the world. (The only way to follow my favorite Australian Rules Football team, the Sydney Swans, is to read the online version of The Sydney Herald.) I love the sports section, the comics, the crosswords, the horoscopes, and in the recent past I have taken a liking to sudoku. But one thing that I can't stand about the news and newspapers is the amount of attention they give to one of the most annoying, idiotic, morons in the world today.

I'm talking of course about the Reverend Al Sharpton. For years I have sat by and watched as the good Reverend has acted as if he is "the king of all blacks." Anytime an African American is treated unfairly, Al comes out from wherever it is that he hides and gets his ugly mug on national news demanding that a white person takes some kind of blame for it. You see the same scenario all the time.. A black guy is working at a construction site, a brick falls on the guy's head, he's knocked unconscious, Sharpton takes an express limo to his hospital bed, calls for a press conference with the guy's mom standing next to him, and then demands that the white owner of the construction company is federally charged and also sued. Stuff like this happens all the time, and each time it gives Sharpton more and more political leverage.

Don Imus recently referred to the women's basketball team at Rutgers University as "nappy headed ho's." Now, before Imus said anything, I can almost guarantee that Al Shaprton never, ever watched a Rutgers woman's basketball game. I'm 99.9 percent sure that he couldn't name one player on the team. I would go so far to say that Sharpton didn't know that Rutgers even had a girls basketball team, and that he was probably sleeping in a king size bed in his mansion when Don Imus made his remarks. He clearly has no personal interest in the issue at hand, but because he is the self appointed leader of the blacks, he had to come out and demand that Don Imus be fired from his radio show that he has been doing for 35 years. His attack worked, as Imus was fired two days after he appeared on Sharpton's radio show where he apologized for the remarks.

Today, I would like to nominate myself as "the king of the whites." The next time Chris Rock makes a joke about white people, I will publicly demand that his sitcom "Everyone Hates Chris" is immediately cancelled and that he appears on my radio show to nationally apologize to white people everywhere. The next time a hip hop artist refers to a white person as a "cracka" in one of his songs, expect to see me on your local news leading a protest. The next time a black guy mugs a white guy, I will be at the white guy's bedside, hugging his mother and demanding that we put an end to black on white violence. And when I run for president in 30 years, you know I will be bringing all of that up.

It should also be mentioned that Al Sharpton one of the first people to call for the prosecution of the the three Duke lacrosse players who were accused of sexually assaulting an African American woman. He went on the nationally syndicated O'Reilly Factor and before any type of legal hearing took place, called the lacrosse players absolute liars. Every single charge against each of those three has been dropped, and Sharpton has not once apologized.

The bottom line is that the Reverend Al Sharpton uses the victims of murders and hate crimes as a stepping stone for his own political agenda. Since he is the "black leader," he should be using his energy to help put an end to problems in the black community, not just showing up wherever a TV camera might be.