Political JUNGLE

Civil rights activist, Al Sharpton, was arrested alongside a couple hundred others for protesting the acquittal of three police officers in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell.

Sean Bell was shot by police on his wedding day outside a nightclub in Queens.  

Sean Bell was an African American.   

The three cops involved in the shooting are Mexican, White, and African American.    

There may be some validity to the argument that the 50 bullet barrage of shots in this occasion were excessive, but thats not the argument I’m confronting.

Al Sharpton claims this protest is about the use of excessive and unfair force in minority neighborhoods. The question is should Al Sharpton, and others, make this about minorities?  Is that really the issue here?  Were these cops malicisously going after this guy because he’s a minority, or lives in a rough neighborhood?  There’s no easy answer.  

The solution, however, is consistency. Al Sharpton needs to have consistency, whether the victim white, black, or any other race, to be accepted as a true civil rights leader.

What if the man shot by the police was white?  Would this have ever been a story?

Sharpton does a lot for the black community, but the ideas he promotes are not always those of togetherness, responsibility, and hard work.  

“Today we want motorists to think about how three (other) motorists were shot at 50 times for no reason,”  Al Sharpton said in referring to the protests.  

The protests were technically referred to as pray-ins.  There is no argument against his right of free speech, but against his continuing interest in the racial divide.

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