Send Feedback

ann-coulter-and-al-sharpton1Last night, the folks over at CNN’s Larry King Live decided it was a good idea to have two of the media’s most polar opposite personalities debate the Gates/Crowley situation and racial profiling in general.  To his credit, Rev. Al Sharpton did attempt to have an honest debate yesterday.

Unfortunately for him, he had the unenviable position of having that debate with conservative drone, Ann Coulter.   For every cogent, common sense point that Al Sharpton noted, Coulter was there with a wholly irrational counter.

Some of Coulter’s unconscionable highlights included:

“… And also, by the way, I do think there was a little racial profiling with the president assuming an Irish cop would like to drink beer, no Chablis here… that’s a little stereotyping.”

“We have one case after another of these, where there is the assumption of racial profiling or racism by cops or by teachers and you have one hoax after another from Tawana Brawley to the Duke lacrosse case. I mean if we’re going to claim that there is this rash of racial profiling in America, eventually there’s going to have to be one real case of it.

“No, I do not think that there is an epidemic of racial profiling. I think there is an epidemic of claims of racism that turn out to be a hoax.”

“There was a scientific study setting up cameras of people speeding and it turns out that New Jersey state troopers, by scientific evidence, that the Bush administration kept rejecting and rejecting, were stopping if anything, not enough black people.”

The best rebuttal is Sharpton’s simple but effective admonishment that, “That’s just Ann being Ann.”  What kills me is the total lack of boundaries that some of the talking head pundits have.  They go on these shows and spew this mindless rhetoric on any issue they can.  When I see Caulter and people of her ilk all I think is dollar signs.  They blindly market to their niches, not allowing something as silly as common sense to cloud their talking points.

The problem is that these news organizations do everything they can to encourage this.  Only a fool sees one side of an argument, but these cable stations often accept partisan drivel as normalcy.  Why else would Juan Williams and Larry Elder get TV time?  It’s an insult to anyone with an iota of intelligence to turn to these channels only to be bombarded by people whose perspectives on key topics are so premeditated.  Until these stations start acknowledging that these people add no value to the news with their vitriol, we will be stuck with ridiculous caricatures like Ann Coulter.

Tags: Ann Coulter, Racial Profiling, Racism, Rev. Al Sharpton
Recommend to friends!
  • BlackPlanet
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • email

News One Links

 
  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MISTAMANNO9/ MISTAMANNO9

    THIS CHICK IS AN IDOIT…BOTTOM LINE AND ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS HER.. AINT NO WAY FROM THIS THAT I GET THIS CHICK IS NOT A RACIST HERSELF.. THATS WHY SHE FEEL SO STRONG ABOUT… EVEN I, AS PROUD BLACK MAN AS I AM… KNOW THAT THERE ARE PREJUDICES IN ALL TO A LEVEL..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    The problem here is Larry’s senile ass interrupting the Rev, when he is about to tear her behind up..The only thing i can’t figure out about Ann is that is she deliberately being a fool, or is she just naturally a fool!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/aledra14/ aledra14

    _A_ IF YOU AINT TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OUT OF MY MOUTH, I DONT KNOW WHAT TO CALL IT. BUT IVE HEARD ANN COULTER BEFORE SPEAK ON THE VIEW AND SHE WAS AN ASS THEN AND SHES AN ASS NOW THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT ANN COULTER IS LIVING IN A WE ARE THE WORLD AMAERICA WHERE THEY DONT HAVE ALL THOSE PROBLEMS AND THE MORE I LISTEN TO HER I FEEL WE ALL GET DUMBER SOME HOW FROM, SHE JUST DONT KNOW WHAT THE HELL SHES TALKIN ABOUT. HELL SHE GOT HER NAME AND LIFE FROM BEING A B***H AND NOT ONLY A B***H BUT A JACKASS.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU ANN COULTER-SO GET YOUR SHEET OUT YOUR A** AND READ THIS MESSAGE OUT LOUD-IN THE MATTER OF RACE AND HOW THIS MATTER BECAME A RACIST IUSSE IS WE THE COP,DIDNT BELIEVE GATES IN THE FIRST PLACE AND NOT EVEN WHEN HE SHOWED HIS FU**ING ID. KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS MATTER WAS OF A B & E POSSIBLE BURGLARY IN PROGRESS 2 MALES WEARING A BACKPACK-(1)ONE IS TO BELIEVE TO BE HISPANIC. WHERE DID THE CRIME FIT GATES,IN THIS SENTENCE? NOWHERE. THIS COP JUMP-IN A RACIST ORDER WHEN HE NO-LONGER HAD NO REASON TO BE IN GATES HOME. IM SURE THE HOLD WORLD WOULD HAVE ACTED THE WAY GATES DID IN HIS OWN HOME WHEN THERE ID WAS PULLED OUT AND YET WAS STILL IN NONE BELIEF HE WAS INFACT THE OWNER LIVING THERE. NOW-BACK TO THE B & E STILL IN PROGRESS-WHAT HAPPEN TO THIS MAN SAFETY? NOT ONCE DID I HEAR-HE CHECKED IN THE AREA FOR ANYONE. AND YOU DON’T SEE WHERE THE RACIST PART FALL ALL UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS MATTER? IF IN FACT IS WAS A WHITE MAN GOING THREW THIS IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HANDLE IN THIS IGNORANT MATTER. THE COP WOULD HAVE APOLOGIZE AND THEN WENT TO SEARCH THE GROUNDS TO MAKESURE EVERYTHING WAS SAFE THERE-INSTEAD OF HIM GIVING GATES THAT RIGHT-IT BECAME A RACIST ACT ON THE BEHALF OF THE COP. I DON’T GIVE A RATS A** THAT HE SAVED A BLACK MANS LIFE BUT,HE PUT ANOTHER ONE IN JAIL FOR NO REASON. AND FOR YOU TO SIT THERE AND FIT YOUR DIRTY MOUTH TO SAY OR SPEAK ON THE BEHALF OF A BLACK WOMAN OR BLACKS FEELINGS DEALING,WITH RACISM IN THE GOOD OLE USA IS DEAD WRONG-B**CH YOU DON’T KNOW THE HALF OF THE SH*T COPS & THE SYSTEM-IGNORANT A** MOTHERFU*KERS PUT US THREW. THEN AGAIN YOU DO & YOU JUST LIKE THE OTHER IGNORANT A** MOTHERFU*KERS WHO CLOSE THERE EYES TO THE TRUTH. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN STOP’ED AFTER DARK,FOR A TAG LIGHT OUT THATS NOT,OR DRIVING LEFT CENTER OF THE LANE ON A ROAD THAT HAS NO LINES,OR PULLED OVER AFTER BEING TAIL-GATED FOR MILES UNTIL YOUR ON A DARK ROAD BY YOURSELF,OR PULLED OUT YOUR CAR MADED PULLED YOUR CLOTHES DOWN AND SPREAD YOUR A** OPEN,OR WENT TO JAIL ON SOMETHING YOU DIDN’T DO AND YOU LOSE EVRYTHING INCLUDING-YOUR NAME? I DON’T FU*KING THINK SO. SO WHEN YOU GO THREW THIS TYPE OF RACIST BULLSH** YOU CAN SPEAK AS A WOMAN FOR ANOTHER WOMAN AS TO BEING BLACK AND WHAT WE GO THREW. GET YOUR NOSE OUT YOUR A** AND SEE THE TRUTH FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS & BY THE WAY ASK ALL THE BLACKS WHO WENT TO PRISON FOR DAMN NEAR HALF THERE FU*KING LIFE-FOR CRIMES THEY DID NOT DO AND THE ONLY CRIME WAS THEY WAS BLACK.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    ONE MORE THING ANN DIDN’T THEY PAY THE KING GUY AND YOU CLAIM ITS NO CASES AND THEY ALL TURN OUT TO BE HOAX. B*T*H PLEASE ITS JUST THEY PAY QUICK SO THE IGNORANT A** PEOPLE LIKE YOU CAN’T SEE THEY TRUE COLOR. WHEN YOU ARE A RACIST YOURSELF YOU CAN’T SEE THE TRUTH. LOOK AT THE CASES OF WHERE ALOT OF PEOPLE GET PAID & THERE CASE IS PUT AWAY WHERE NOONE CAN GET THEM SOME EVEN BURNED. SO GET YOUR FACTS AND KNOW THEM AS WELL. STOP SPEAKING THE HALF TRUTH AND SPEAK THE HOLD TRUTH SO HELP YOU GOD…BECAUSE YOU NEED HIM.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bettybishop1/ bettybishop1

    Wow! I was just waiting for Rev. Al to refute Ann Coulter with some solid cases of racial profiling but all he would say is “Ann is being Ann” and I wonder why he didn’t bring up solid cases–one after the other? Rodney King was beat in the streets by LA Cops. Plenty of LA cop stories of this sort of thing. I was surprised that Rev. Al didn’t rattle off case after case of his own cause that is the only thing that white intellectuals will listen to is a bunch of FACTS that are rattled off in rapid fire succession and if Rev. Al wants to get the one up on Ann Coulter he will have to debate this way or she will just end up looking like the one with all the scientific facts and studies and he will just end up looking like someone who pats her on the head with, “Oh Ann, you are just being you” which doesn’t display his intelligence for facts–which I know he has. Gotta do better on debating. Betty

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/orinreborn2/ orinreborn2

    Betty … I think Sharpton knew that even if he stated all these facts, it would have led to a big argument and take away from the focus, which is the GATES incident.

    Sharpton already knew what to expect from her.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    Coulter is a special type of racist,she seems truly stupid,southern,skinny,ugly,moronic,and completely frustrating.Al could’nt believe he was talking to to someone so much a redneck and so illiterate.his expressions told the story.really she is to stupid to be racist but she is trying hard to pull it off.if I had’nt heard her give her racist tripe,I would’nt have believe it myself.coulter,you need top go back to school and finish the forth grade.it might even help someone as slow as you.but I doubt it.Al,I feel for you being taken on such a brainless journey by such a fool.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/onyxlvr/ onyxlvr

    Someone please tell me why Ann Coulter is relevant to speak on the issue of racial profiling when she has no experience,credentials or knowledge in this arena. The media has to take more responsibilty to stop this type of rhetoric and sensationalism to boost ratings and have intelligent people engage in dialogue to address and find solutions to a problem that has a historic, systemic and psychological impact on this nation. Racism didnt stop when President Obama was elected. Look at the incarceration rates and unemployment statistics specifically for our collective and see if there are comparable percentages with other ethnic groups per capita. It is clear that she does not understand that and probably requires shock therapy given her responses. Here you have a neo-con equaled in parity to that of a Rush Limbaugh who has an audience of people who gravitate to unconcionable ignorance and pays for it by purchasing her garbage and perpetuating the status quo. There is something to be said of a man who can be arrested in his own home despite what he says to a police officer short of a threat to do bodily harm. I doubt that asking for his name and badge number and expressing his discontent qualifies for being arrested unless his first amendment rights no longer exist. Trust that if the prosecution had a less than circ**stantial case against an educated and esteemed black man that it would not have been dropped just to make an example out of him. That should be our concern as a people to include the trumped up charges that are often levied by cops with no evidence to support a finding of guilt. Brother Sharpton’s deliberate and focused energy was wasted debating this topic with a person who has never known the horrific bondage and pain associated with the enslavement of a people be it economically, literally or figuritively and who has no concept of what diversity means unless you are speaking about a mutual fund.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/northstl/ northstl

    First, Ann Coulter isn’t a stupid, moronic, and southern. She’s unfortunately a very intelligent far-right-wing talking head that’s a bigot. With twisted conservative views, which are truly baseless. I listen to her radio show often during the week (Don’t know why, sometimes). She uses her on opinions of a stated fact. And cleaverly poses questions to her audience that twist the facts into her favor. If it’s all an act she’s putting on. We’ll never know, but her rhetoric along with: Hannity, Dr Salvage, and Rush. Are for those white people who believe America should always treat minorities pre-1960′s.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    As bobby wright in the psychopathic racial personality tells us a racist has no conscience or memory and is in a classic state of denial

    Aint no talkin to these whyte bytches. Phuck em all. We strengthen them wen we meet them at the table for talks only way to deal wit our enemy is on the field NOMORETALKIN its time to do sum walkin right ova they mutha phukin heads

    We as blk ppl know these peckerwoods r racist so y do we try to get them to admitt it. PHUKEM. All of em and any negro that wanna me down witem phuk u to

    Heads must roll and we have to do it for our babie babies babies children and our ancestors who died by the hand of these beast

    Amerikkka is our it was taken from us so we hav to take it back by any and all means neccessary

    Quit talkin to this beast and let’s move black ahead. Time for us to reclaim wats ours NOMORETALKIN

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    As bobby wright in the psychopathic racial personality tells us a racist has no conscience or memory and is in a classic state of denial

    Aint no talkin to these whyte bytches. Phuck em all. We strengthen them wen we meet them at the table for talks only way to deal wit our enemy is on the field NOMORETALKIN its time to do sum walkin right ova they mutha phukin heads

    We as blk ppl know these peckerwoods r racist so y do we try to get them to admitt it. PHUKEM. All of em and any negro that wanna me down witem phuk u to

    Heads must roll and we have to do it for our babie babies babies children and our ancestors who died by the hand of these beast

    Amerikkka is our it was taken from us so we hav to take it back by any and all means neccessary

    Quit talkin to this beast and let’s move black ahead. Time for us to reclaim wats ours NOMORETALKIN. Phuk dialog phuk dialect phuk rhetoric let snap a goddamn white neck

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/deccaphobia/ deccaphobia

    fall down some stairs already (m)Ann…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blue89/ blue89

    One of satan’s greatest tricks he did to man was, satan made Man a god, how can any poor person be free with a man god ? Revelation: 16:8 is telling us God is not happy at all with the man god . In many wars the poor has gave his blood and the rich watch us die on roof tops. The heat with no water , the kidneys will no longer work. When satan became a god he was in trouble with God, so making man a god , now man is in trouble with God and satan. Now all of man will suffer the rich and the poor. May God forgive the rich and the poor and God will be fair to both. It is out of your hands man god. Jesus Christ is Lord.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Blue89. 1 corinthians 3:16. Thus saith the lord know ye not that you are the temple of the living god and god dwells in you

    The musslims make pilgrimage to mecca to the CABA stone that is covered with a black veil called kishwa and they say god is in that stone
    But we are told that BLACK means death and WHite means GODLY
    The black man and woman is god and the firsr god was a goddess a black goddess

    Yes god is covered in something black and that black is black skin wit wooly hair like in daniels 7:9

    The white man is the devil and jesus told us this in john 8:33-44

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JJ_lawva01/ JJ_lawva01

    I dont even need to watch the video to know that ann coulter is socially retarded. This is a woman who said on fox news that we should go into Iraq and start converting all Mmuslims from Islam to Christianity. She has no Idea of what is going on with race in America because she comes from a privileged and ultra conservative upbringing (basically the only blacks or minorities shes ever delt with are the ones cleaning her house or mowing her lawn). With figureheads like her, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbough as the faces of the republican party is it any wonder why no minorities want to vote republican?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dj_double_d1/ dj_double_d1

    I have heard about Ann Coulter, but this is the first time I have heard her. She is far worse than I have heard, and not worth commenting on. I will be sure not to tune in to any program, or listen to any of her garbage in the future.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/masculine31/ masculine31

    Why do white folk continue to play da race card game? In da in JEHOVAH GOD psalms 83:18 they will have to come their senses and realize he is da true GOD. This lady is being crazy, and most likely was paid or she benefiting from 15 mins of fame.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NeovirusX/ NeovirusX

    bettybishop1
    8-1-2009 3:40 am

    Wow! I was just waiting for Rev. Al to refute Ann Coulter with some solid cases of racial profiling but all he would say is “Ann is being Ann” and I wonder why he didn’t bring up solid cases–one after the other? Rodney King was beat in the streets by LA Cops. Plenty of LA cop stories of this sort of thing. I was surprised that Rev. Al didn’t rattle off case after case of his own cause that is the only thing that white intellectuals will listen to is a bunch of FACTS that are rattled off in rapid fire succession and if Rev. Al wants to get the one up on Ann Coulter he will have to debate this way or she will just end up looking like the one with all the scientific facts and studies and he will just end up looking like someone who pats her on the head with, “Oh Ann, you are just being you” which doesn’t display his intelligence for facts–which I know he has. Gotta do better on debating. Betty

    Betty, I understand how you feel but keep in mind that, “Ignorance is bliss”. Suppose Rev. Sharpton had presented many doc**ented cases or claims of racial profiling; Do you think Ms. Coulter would really admit to those claims? Do you really think that Ms. Coulter would be honest with herself and the topic at hand? I highly doubt it… History has been tainted with half-truths, from ranging topics of African culture, to the HIV virus. All of those half-truths have been constructed and manipulated people like her so please don’t any true knowledge or statistics from her.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NeovirusX/ NeovirusX

    (correction on last sentence)”All of those half-truths have been constructed and manipulated from people like her so please don’t expect any true knowledge or statistics from her.” (I apologize, lol! I was being distracted while typing the past sentence.)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2daTopnonStop/ 2daTopnonStop

    Rodney King was a case of police brutslity NOT racial profiling~ that cat was strung on PCP Not reason to beat him the way they did, but he was pulled over for just cause~

    It’s true if racial profiling wasn’t an issue~ than over 15 states wouldn’t have mando procedures hy have to go through when they pull over/arrest someone~ to make SURE race didn’t play a role~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/conniemo/ conniemo

    U GOT THAT RIGHT I AM GOING THRU THE SAME THING AS RODNEY.I HAD MY RECEIPT BU TWHEN I GOT TO MY FRIENDS HOUSE I REALIZED ONE OF MY ITEMS WAS MISSING.I CALLED THE STORE IMMEDIATELY.THEY SAID THEY DON’T SEE IT BUT WILL LOOK FOR IT.I HAVE A SPINAL CORD INJURY. AWHITE FEMALE ACCUSED ME OF TAKING TH ERECEIPT OUT OF TH EBAG IN STILL HAVING PRODUCT.I AM A CHILD OF GOD I DO NOT STEAL.OF OCOURSE IF A WHITE PERSON ACCUSE US OF STEALING WITH NO FACTUAL EVIDENCE.YEA WE ARE GOING TO UPSET.SO THE LAW IS SAYING WE DON’T HAVE A RIGHT TO BE UPSET WHEN THIS IS DONE.I ASKED HER WHO WAS OVER TOP OF HER.SHE STATED SHE IS THE OWNER AND THERE IS NO ELSE.AND WOULDN’T GIVE ME THE 800 NUMBER.SO I GOES TO BACK ORDER MY NANA’S PRESRIPTION.I ASKED ANOTHE RFEMALE.ALL WHITE WORKING THAT DAY.REAL RUDE.I DON’T KNOW THE 800 NUMBER CAN YOU JUST PLEASE GO OVER THER EIN SIT DOWN LIKE I WAS HER CHILD.I JUST LOOKED AT HER LIKE SHE WAS CRAZY.SO THEN I ASKED ANOTHER ONE.IT’S DOWN THE AISLE SOMEWHERE.KNOWING IT’IS NOT THERE.NEXT THING I KNOW I SEE THE POLICE COME IN.NOW THEY ARE ASKING WHO IS THE PERSON.NOW IF IWAS SO MAD N OUTREAGED AS THEY SY I WERE WOULDN’TTHEY HAVE KNOWN.SO ME I FELT I DID NOTHING WRONG SO I GOES OVER THER TO HIM.SHOW HIM RECEIPT. NEXT THING I KNOW .MA’ UNLESSS U WANTING ON MEDICINE LEAVE.EXACT WORDS.I REACHED FOR MEDFICINE THN THE OFFICER GRABBED MY ARM.REAL HARD AND TIGHT.I ASKED WHAT HE GRABBED ME FOR .NEXT THING YOU KNOW HE TELLS ME I AM UNDER ARREST.AND DON’T KNOW WHAT I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR.HE SAID PUT YOUR ARMS BEHIND YOUR BACK.I SAID I AM DISABLE I CANNOT PUT MY ARMS BEHIND MY BACK.THEN HE TELLS THE OTHER OFFICER TO GET ME.I TOLD THEM I AM NOT GOING TO LET YOU ALL BEAT ME LIKE RODNEY KING.THEN HE SAYS GET DOWN.WELL I CAN’T BEND.SO HE FELT I WAS BEING NON-COMPLIANT.SO THEN HE TELLS THE OTHER OFFICER TO TASE ME.AND THE OTHER OFFICER TAZED ME IN MY LEFT BREAST.I WAS RTREATE SO BAD AND SO RUDE.WHY THEY DON’T FEEL WE HAVE RIGHTS FOR THEM TO ASK US QUESTIONS OR OUR SIDE OF THE STORY.THEY HANDCUFFED ME IN FRONT OF A LOT OF CUSTOMERS.KEPT TELLING PARAMEDIC TO YANK TAZER OUT MY BREAST.IT WAS STUCK.AS THE OFFICER PROCEED TO CHECK MY PURSE.ONCE HE INDS OUT .II HAVE A $125 IN CASH IN MY ACCIDENT PICTURES.HE SAID YOU NEED TO SUE CVS BECAUS E AS SOON AS I CAME IN THE STORE SHE STATED YOU WANTED TO DOUBLE DIP THEM.I DID SAY ANYTHING.ONCE THEY TOOK TO THE JAIL.HE STATED SHE SHOWED ME SOME TYPE OF RECEIPTS BUT NEVER LOOKED AT THEM.THEY CHARGED ME WITH FOUR CHARGES.OH WHEN I JERKED MY ARM AWAY TO PREVENT THEM FROM INFLICT MORE PAIN TO MY BODY.THEY SAID I HIT THE OFFICER I DON’T KNOW I JUST WANT ANY MORE PAIN TO MY BODY.I SPENT 2HRS IN JAIL.NEVER COMMITTED A CRIME IN MY WHOLE LIFE.HAD TO $250 TO GET OUT.THEY LIED AND SAID THEY TOLD ME TO LEAVE 3X AND NEVER DID.HOW CAN THEY BELIEVE THESE CROOKED COPS JUST BECAUS ETHEY HAVE BADGE THEY SUPPOSE TO BE RIGHT AND I WAS THERE.THEY KNOW THEY MADE A BAD JUDGEMENT CALL AND WANT TO COVER IT UP.EVEN THE STORE MANAGER SAYING I WAS JUST USING THE F WORD THE WHOLE TIME AND SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS CALLING THE POLICE.NOW IF SHE CALLING THE POLICE WHY AM ISOMEWHERE ELSE INSTEAD OF MEETING THEM.I WANT OTO KNOW WHAT LAW OR WHAT MOTTO THAT POLICEMENARE ALWAYS RIGHT THEN WHY WE GOT SO MANY BLACK UNDERCOVER COPS IN PLAIN CLOTHES IF THEY WAS ALWAYS RIGHT.THEN THEY GV A SOMEONE WHO DON’T EVEN TRY TO ATTEMP MY CASE.JUST WANT ME TO PLEAD GUILTY AND TAKE A PLEA .FOR WHAT I DID NOTHING WRONG BUT JUST COME BACK MY ITEMALREADY PD FOR.NOT ONLY THAT .I HAD $125 IN PURSESO$5 WOULDN’T MADE A DIFFERENCE.MY ARMS ARE STILL STRAIN AND SPRAINED.WERE IS OUR JUSTICE WE ARE HUMANS TOO.IF THEY SAY WE MAKING IT UP THEY ARE LYING BECAUSE I BEEN THRU 2X WITH IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS O FBEING ACCUSED OF STEALING AND HAVE MONEY IN POCKET.NOT MUCH BUT HAVE IT.SO THESE WHO DON’T BELIEVE THAT RACISM EXIST NO THEY DON’T NEED NO TV SHOWS.I JUST WANT TO WHY JUDGES DON’T BELIEVE IN JUST COMMON SENSE.AND I AM A WELLEDUCATED BLACK PERSON.I HAVE MANY CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES.SO THEIR IS ONLY ONE JUDGE.SO HOW CANN THEY JUDGE US BY THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN,THAT WE ARE THIEFS,MURDERS,THUGS,ANDETC.I CAN GO ON JUST BECAUSE IT’S TRUE.IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bettybishop1/ bettybishop1

    Today at church an inter-racial couple had a tiff in the church cafeteria. I noticed that the woman (white) was acting all self righteous toward me as I tried to defend the idea of marriage (they are thinking about getting hitched)as something that has to do with both their families. She got all self righteous and said her boyfriend (mixed black and Indian) needed to go with her flow and I said she needed to consider his family and how they feel (they can’t stand her and don’t want the couple to get married–they really hate her). She started pontificating about the bible and church law and on and on pointing a finger at me and when she left to go to the church bookstore I told this guy to run–run as fast as he could–away from this nasty Ann Coulter type lady who only can see their relationship from a white perspective and will just not take into account that his family is a different culture with a different set of feelings and rules. Was I racial profiling when I told this Black Indian to run away from this self righteous white woman with the “my white way or highway” finger wagging religiously superior attitude or did I just save my friend from a life of being dominated emotionally and spiritually from a woman who really believes that what she preaches is the Gospel truth? She has “scriptures” to back up everything but she never talks about loving this man. She doesn’t ever show him any affection. I cannot see any love toward him–the kind of love you need to make a marriage last a lifetime. Betty

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DonJMac/ DonJMac

    Ann Coulter IS A FOOL,WHY GIVE HER A PLATFORM? HER OWN PARTY AND PEOPLE DON’T LISTEN TO HER ANYMORE,,THEY REPLACED HER WITH SARA PALIN,LARRY KING NEED TO BE UPDATED,AND BRO.REV SHARPTON,YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER,SHE IS BENEATH YOU AND NOT WORTH THE TIME.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bettybishop1/ bettybishop1

    Indicating that “she is beneath” Rev. Al Sharpton is just another incident of racial superiority. The white man or woman is not superior to the black man or woman. We are all equal. But, we have different cultures and we have different ideas about culture and family. While Ann Coulter’s obvious attitude of white moral superiority is absolutely repugnant and disgusting–answering Ann Coulter with indications that Rev. Al Sharpton is superior–is also repugnant and disgusting. You do not answer racism with racism. At the core of racism is a claim of “superiority” based on race. There is no evidence that the white race is superior to the black race. Conversely, there is no evidence that the black race is superior to the white race. We are all human beings made by a Creator–who has endowed all of us–with power.

    The Black man and race has tremendous power. It is God given and God driven. There is not even one white man who can keep a black man “down.” God has NOT given ALL the power to the white race. Those who believe the white race has all the power–believe in a God who is unjust. A JUST GOD–distributes power equally–which He has done. It is up to every black man to take up the God given power he has–make a life for himself. Pointing a finger at “whitey” to say he has all the power–he keeps the black man down–is to reject the power that God has given every black man on this earth.

    We have got to get past the idea of moral superiority based on race. Ann Coulter is NOT morally superior because she is white. Al Sharpton is NOT morally superior because he is black. These disgusting attitudes–coming from either race–that somehow indicate–I am superior–are both morally wrong.

    Morality of every kind has an objective basis in moral law. What does the law say? It says–whatever race you are–you are bound first–by DIVINE LAW. Secondly–CIVIL LAW is supposed to MIRROR–DIVINE LAW. If it doesn’t–if CIVIL LAW or its implementation is unjust–it is required by God–to disobey CIVIL LAW–as MLK did–by declaring ENGLISH LAW when it came to the fortunes of the Black RACE—and his ability to create economy for himself, his family, his race–UNLAWFUL–by right of Divine LAW.

    What is the problem with that in a society which has been dominated by English Law since 1776? This English Law–while “freeing” the black slave in 1865–under the Emancipation Proclamation and Act of 1865 by then President Abraham Lincoln, did not create a system–whereby–the newly freed black slave–with his 40 acres and a mule–could bring his crops to market–and sell them–at a fair market price. The English Law did not provide an avenue whereby he could sustain himself and his family, in a viable economic manner.

    By 1963–black poverty–was at such a height–English Law had to be amended or added to it–Civil Rights Law–working toward–as its aim and goal—the economic viability of the black and minority races–which had languished in poverty–since 1865–all the while–being declared “free men.” Free to do what? Be unlawfully cheated out of a fair market price for their crops? To be actively prevented from pursuing the creation of wealth and future wealth for generations of black families?

    In order to correct–economic inequality–that led to generations of black poverty–The English Law–instituted another law–Civil Rights Law–to amend it. Every black man should be able to bring his products and services to market and get a fair market price for these goods and services.

    Is that happening? Are all black men bringing their goods and services to market and getting a fair market price at this time?

    In my estimation—this is the goal and aim of creating black wealth for generations to come.

    All wealth creation is imbedded in the axiom of buying and selling goods and services. This requires the black race to provide goods and services for sale in order to create wealth.

    Is this happening? If not, why not? What are the current impediments that need to be legislated?

    In 1865–legislation was designed on behalf of the black race in America that obviously did not do the job.

    In 1963–legislation was designed on behalf of the black and minority races in America and what I am hearing is that this legislation did not solve black poverty.

    My question? What legislation needs to be enacted to solve these economic inequities that were not solved by legislation in 1865 and 1963?

    I want some real solutions–lasting solutions–effective solutions-legislative solutions to END BLACK POVERTY!

    You know what I don’t want? I want to stop wasting my time bashing Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio, Fox News, and anybody else that takes away the time and work needed to actually SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

    In my estimation it is counter productive–to drop the F-Bomb–to be constantly angry and enraged at the white race and their spokespeople. Waste of time!

    God gives us anger–TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS! It is the FORCE DU JOUR–the power of the day–put in the right place–at the right time–focused–on the right problem–the heart of the problem–to solve the problem–to have a goal and aim.

    Don’t you see how much time it has taken to drop F-Bombs at Ann Coulter and how could that anger better be used to actually solve Black Poverty?

    Anger and rage are a waist of time. They are a luxury the black and minority races cannot afford. Anger is a capital sin when used destructively. It is a gateway sin to other sins–violence, crimes, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug use and addiction, revenge, and a host of other social ills which have piled up in my community of color.

    My community of color has the highest rates of suicide, unwed mothers, broken marriages, drug and alcohol abuse, criminal behavior that exists in the United States. How about your community of color? Are your stats off the charts like my stats are?

    Know what me and my husband are doing instead of blaming whitey? Do you know what me and my community of color are doing instead of being angry and rageful?

    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT! CREATING WEALTH! MAKING NEW BUSINESSES!

    Anger and rage and pointing the finger at whitey will just leave you poor and broke. Blaming anyone–accusing everyone–will dissipate your energy–leave you drained–give you no time for creating wealth.

    Listen man, I JUST WANT TO GET TO WORK AND MAKE SOME DAMN MONEY!

    I ain’t got time to point fingers at whitey!

    If you want to get out of black poverty–join me in economic development.

    Let’s make some damn money!

    Let’s make some damn money for our wives, husbands, children, families and generations. Let’s stop wasting our time listening to the white chatter boxes who have never lived black or minority! What do they know?

    My grandmama told me one thing as she crossed the border into the US from Canada and marked “DARK” on her immigration papers, “Stay in school Betty, get good grades, get an education, get to work, find a husband, a good one, have a family, pray, go to church, live honestly, don’t cheat anyone, live right, a good and moral life, love your husband, love your kids, teach them to do what is right, pay your bills, forgive everyone, don’t cheat on your husband, take care of the family, don’t worry so much about money but use the money you have wisely, save for a rainy day, don’t waste food, be a good person, stay out of trouble, respect your parents, don’t argue with cops, suffer your indignities with grace and perseverance, let God take vengeance, don’t take revenge, don’t live in anger or you will ruin your health with high blood pressure or even cancer.”

    My grandmama told me all these things years ago. Just work hard and make money. Mind your own business. Take care of your own family. Stay out of trouble and don’t screw your life up with alcohol and drugs.

    I have done that for 50 years. I have been married for 26 years with three grown children. No one is in jail. No one is on drugs. My three children are all educated and working. Two of my three kids are married. My youngest son will get married after he graduates from college next year.

    I don’t have alot of money. I would like to make more to help my adult children and my grandchildren.

    These damn arguments about race–all this damn anger over race–dilutes my energy–take the energy–and time–away from making serious money.

    Why are we wasting our damn time on this stuff over and over when we could just be making business–making money–creating legislation–that would solve this issue?

    Personal responsibility. Self Reliance. Dogged determination. Faith in God. Hard Work. Forgiveness. Prayer. This is how I live and even though I am not a millionaire who has a Harvard Education–as a woman of color– I am wealthy.

    Betty

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/baddscorpia/ baddscorpia

    Why not post from your real profile? What are you afraid of white girl/boy?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/biggsuge6/ biggsuge6

    She is true kkk because it is alot of racial profiling I stay in tulsa okla and the police here do alot of RACIAL PROFILING I wish the FBI would look in to it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Monte_Brown/ Monte_Brown

    A house fell on Ann Coulter’s sisters head.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TONYMATRIX/ TONYMATRIX

    she is either dumb or refuse to understand our views on this,and thats why we continue to have problems like this, they just don,t get it,,or acting like they don,t get it.. let a blk police respond like they do us and see how they react. I bet the world stop turning and all hell break loose..she is an good example of blind to the facts.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bettybishop1/ bettybishop1

    Father Figures
    Yes, the numbers prove too many black fathers are irresponsible. Now what?

    My father grew up without his father. Actually, he’s not entirely sure it was his biological father, but in any case, the man left when my father was 6 years old. Growing up without a father had a devastating effect on his material and emotional well-being, and he constantly tells me about the hardships he experienced. He survived, however, and would eventually thrive intellectually and spiritually—no thanks to the paternal grandfather I will never know.

    What caused my grandfather’s absence?

    What is to blame—or, perhaps, who is to blame—for the nearly seven out of 10 black children who are now being raised mainly by single black females?

    For as long as I can remember, a war has been raging inside me over these questions. It has been a conflict with three armies of thought. My more conservative intellectual army has argued valiantly that black males’ irresponsibility is primarily to blame. My more radical, scholarly army has claimed intrepidly that society is chiefly to blame. My more liberal, cerebral position is that it is a little bit of both.

    My conflicted thinking on this matter is emblematic of the larger societal clash of ideas that has persisted for decades. This clash was thrown into sharp relief in the reaction to Barack Obama’s now controversial Father’s Day speech. In that speech, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president said: “If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that too many fathers also are missing—missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.”

    Conservatives championed this statement. Radicals derided it. Liberals like the Rev. Jesse Jackson chastised Obama for not talking enough about society’s responsibilities.

    In the end, Obama adopted the traditional liberal line, telling reporters on his campaign plane that his “argument is simply … not an ‘either-or’ proposition, it’s a ‘both-and’ proposition.”

    But which proposition is right? Who and/or what is to blame? That has yet to be settled. Are the conservatives correct? The liberals? The radicals?

    This war of ideas should never have been a war at all. The conservatives are correct to emphasize black male irresponsibility. The radicals echo reality when they underscore society’s role. The liberals should highlight accurately that it is a little bit of both.

    How can they all be right?

    It is indisputable that men of any race who walk away from their children are irresponsible. And it is just as indisputable that societal conditioning is the reason black men who do this are irresponsible; either they are conditioned to be irresponsible, or they are naturally more irresponsible than other groups of men.

    Again, we all have to wrap ourselves around the fact that the primary reason black men in America walk away from their children is their irresponsibility. “We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception,” Obama said on Father’s Day. “We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child—it’s the courage to raise one.”

    There is no disputing that men who walk away from their children are irresponsible. There is no getting away from the conclusion that they are irresponsible. And those black men in America who are not taking care of their children are generally irresponsible, and they should be demonstrably chastised for that.

    Furthermore, it should be noted that in terms of taking care of their children, black men are the most irresponsible men in America: 65 percent of black households are led by single women. Compare that with a single-parent rate of 37 percent among Latinos and 23 percent among whites. (For a number of reasons that I won’t delve into here, there are actually more black, white and Latino men in their children’s lives than these statistics suggest.)

    But why are so many more black men irresponsible when it comes to taking care of their children than Latino men or white men? There are two possible explanations: nature or nurture.

    In the nature argument, black men, in comparison to white and Latino men, have more of a natural proclivity to walk away from their children; in the nurture argument, the irresponsibility is bred into black men as part of their societal conditioning.

    Using nature to explain the inequality directly positions black men as inferior to Latino and white men, at least in regard to being responsible for one’s kids. To buy into that argument, you’d have to accept that black men are naturally inclined to be more irresponsible concerning their children than any group of men in this nation because God, or whatever higher or scientific power you believe in, made them that way, or so the nature argument goes. To use the natural argument to explain the inequality, one must be treading superiority and inferiority thoughts in the ideological pool of racism—whether consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously.

    Personally, I do not believe that black men are naturally inferior to any other group of men in any way. Thus, if you and I are not racists, that leaves one explanation as to why black men are so much more irresponsible than other groups when it comes to taking care of their children—nurture.

    Just as the conservatives are unquestionably accurate that black male irresponsibility is the cause of the epidemic of black households headed by single females, radicals are absolutely correct about society’s underlying role, in this case, as the cause of the cause.

    You have to agree that something in society—and perhaps more than a single thing: inferior public education, poverty, limited options and access to vocational opportunities, fewer responsible role models, negative media portrayals of black masculinity, etc.—breeds this black male irresponsibility when it concerns taking care of their children.

    To ascertain the cause of the cause would require reading the forest of research on this subject, and, instead of chastising these absentee fathers, asking them why they abandoned their children. We would undoubtedly find some solid human reasons, and the solutions to this crisis would come rushing toward us like a boy to a returning father.

    Like so many absentee fathers, we’ve removed ourselves from the arena of solutions for too long. Instead, for decades, we’ve been arguing back and forth over who or what is to blame for these catastrophic statistics. That should be obvious by now—the irresponsibility of the black men is to blame. It should be just as obvious that the cause of the irresponsibility of too many black men is our collective irresponsibility as a society.

    The only relevant debate now lies in figuring out a solution. Any other exercise would be intellectually irresponsible. The more black men have walked away from their kids, the more we’ve walked away from any bona fide attempt at finding a solution. To bring black men back to their families, we have to return to a discussion about the causes of the cause, and how to reverse it. Only this conversation will save the beloved black family.

    Ibram Rogers is a doctoral student in African-American studies at Temple University.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Luxurious_02/ Luxurious_02

    That b***h is crazy and ignorant. Yes there have been some hoaxes of racial profiling,probably will be more, but i bet facts of actual racial profiling exists extremely more throughout the entire world than the hoaxes. What are the reasons that people of color receive so many lynchings and beatings in history alone since slavery? Tell her to answer that one. She couldn’t even do it. She needs to be black for awhile, that’s the only way she could defend her ignorant ass statements with no real evidence to say that racial profiling doesn’t exist, all she gave were times in which there weren’t racial profiling, which is not enough to say it doesn’t exist. She needs to read the book “Black Like Me” and rent the movie “Watermelon Man”, even though it’s semi-comedic. There are so much more research to prove this b***h wrong. She needs to read more that’s not in those white history books, because they won’t tell everything. she’s just ignorant, not surprised.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Betty no black man has went around the world claimin to be superior to no race only this whyte beast has

    It was abe lincoln when so called freein enslaved africans said that there should be a inferior and superior position and he asmuch as any man believe the superior position should go to the white race

    Nothing in the universe has an equall. This whyte beast aint even human to be human u have to have color. The H U in human means color from the word HUE. The white boy seperated us by color only and white only or blanc, blanca, blanco.

    We the black man abd woman africans have created damn near every invention in amerikkka and the world. This white bytch stole it and put his face and name on it

    God said in jeremiah do not folow the way of the gentile (white ppl) …they are foolish. Jesus said do not go into the way of the gentile. Both the father and sun said stay away from this beast but we was hard headed. Now we have adopted this whyte bytches sick evil wicked freackish licentious culture and behavior.

    There is no reasonin with this beast he don’t understand that. He is a iltolerable bein and has a child like mindset. Nomoretalkin to this beast

    White ppl r beneath us. By us trustun this beast and turnin our backs on oursleves we let this beast hav global rule

    Wake up gods and goddessess.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fajri42/ fajri42

    The problem was not the conern citizen. It was with the over zealous police. Once Mr Gates offered proper identification the situation should not have gone any further. There is an assumption that people of color should be in awe of whites in uniform. Me being a peace officer have had situations that white officers have a distain for me until they find out I carry a badge. Then I become a brother in arms. The bottom line is all they see is color even when that’s not what we present.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_Donlamb/ The_Donlamb

    You know,I’m really exausted with these self righteous,mary poppins, lilly white privileged, i’m in denial of my own ignorance, mentally warped, sociopathic white puritans who refuse to take responsibility for the actions of those whom they love and support by placing these haters in positions of authority. FYI to those in denial, Your neighbor, if they are of ethnic European American descent has a 95% chance of being racist by culture and assimilation. Racism is by definition a white bread disease, and if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness such as cancer, studies have proven that ingnoring your disease would only prove to be fatal at the end of the day.Therefore, denial will not make your diseased neighbor immune to the ridicule, nor will it dim the spotlight that is shining on the infected parts of your community.If you wanna stop having one sided conversations about racial profiling, police brutality, employment discrimination etc. then you must first admit you have a problem and seek help just like anyonelse with a mental impairment, who is suffering from superiority complex,or paranoid dillusions of black retaliation for hundreds of years of white oppression.However, instead of taking responibility as the authors of oppression and racism, you insist on claiming reverse discrimination by the almighty black man, one of whom you help elect president in order to shed the underlined stigma of white agression, and oppression around the globe, and claim yourself the victim racism, wow! How clever is the work of the devil, but not clever enough.Cheeze!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigblkcookerman/ bigblkcookerman

    They(white people)will NEVER understand! Because they have never had to deal with anything close to the things that we(black people)deal with everyday.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pimpsumtin/ pimpsumtin

    Remember when in grade school the nerdy kids the white kids who look like they were in need of mommies protection ya know the ones who scream ouch I’m telling. start crying and ACTING a fool and s**t lying like you was the cause of there every day ridicule
    We’ll there grown now and have jobs

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/harmfulsounds/ harmfulsounds

    The diary of a mad white woman comes to mind when i here mancoulters speak. The next time i drive on the highway I’ll do my own survey between blks and whts driving habits, i always felt whites were more likely to stop for ten seconds at a stop sign, brake before the light turns red, even use there turn signal before cutting you off, but when it comes to driving fast i never notice any difference between the races if anything they drive faster because of better cars and money to pay speeding ticket. most blacks live in inner cities which means they already pay more for insurance so driving fast only puts you at risk for paying more go figure. personally i think some drive to freakin slow they have nothing to do all day. most blk people have two jobs plus kids to balance between day to day hustle. never never enough time in the day for a man trying to get his hustle on.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Benzly/ Benzly

    Ann is a dumb white b***h … go back to school dumb ass ..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JasonX34/ JasonX34

    I have always said this some white people can pretend to be dumb when they want to and to be frank I would not waste my time going back and fourth with Ann Caulter she is a CLOWN. Every white person to a degree don’t like the word racism because they have committed crimes against blacks and native Americans, not all but most. It sickens me to hear some bad white folks mess it up for some good white folks in America. She is bias against the truth and she knows it just look at her face. Paul mooney said that white folks made up n****r and now they don’t want blacks to say it”LOL”.But in this case of the professor I would have reacted the same way because that’s where I lay my head at night and it’s mine; I am allowed to act any kind of way in my own house. White people don’t want to hear the truth because it hurts, why you think they where black shades all the time. “That’s like me killing your momma” and being reminded of what I did every day and seeing your family everyday”that s**t will hurt”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    white people love Barack Obama….

    because he makes Al Roker(NBC) look like Malcolm X…….lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/momono3/ momono3

    Am I the only one, or do other people feel Ann Coulter’s v****a is lined with steel siding?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2koolT/ 2koolT

    THAT ANN COULTER IS ONE DUMB B***H!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2koolT/ 2koolT

    PREACH JASONX I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF BRUH

blog comments powered by Disqus
?>