How can you guys take a perfectly worthless, inciting post meant to inflame and turn it into something more worthless...painfully meandering so much so that I'm dizzy and trying to remember why I visited these 6 or so pages.
In response to the original post...just "WOW". It really saddens me that we have people who feel that way. Perhaps I'm naive, but I don't understand how the "black" cause(I say that tongue in cheek as it should be the American cause) can be anything but hindered with posts like this. This has the entirely opposite effect. I feel relatively safe in saying that most whites view both Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton(neither of which I prefaced with a title intentionally) as a joke. They handle themselves in a manner that has purveyed a large section of the black community to the point where anything that doesn't go their way, it is deemed as a slap against them because of the color of their skin. Perhaps it is more of a cultural thing than a race thing, the sherking of responsibility...it's always someone else's fault.
I think one of my biggest pet peeves is the double standard some(not all or even most) apply toward to various topics. For example, why is it racism for there not to be more black coaches when 75% of the league is African American? That's unfair representation. Nevermind the fact that as a whole, the African American community only make up about 12% of the total of the country, yet you don't hear an outcry that the white, asian or latino community is not represented equally or at least proportionally in terms of population. There are programs that intionally discriminate against persons of "white" color to provide those of other colors access to various tools or opportunities, regardless of merit.
In TO's case, he had a long history of baggage that begged for attention from the media.
Not that I have feel I have to or need to prove my stance with regard to race, but two of my five best friends are persons of color and my girlfriend is hispanic...just didn't want anyone to form a pre-biased opinion on my opinion. This political correctness has gone to insane limits
And finally, to disprove your initial argument...I have two words for you:
Jeremy Shockey
If your desire is to make our country a better place, your attempt was way off the mark. We need communication, not confrontation.