our boy al

al sharpton.
wow. it's like this guy has his head in everything; the sean bell police brutality case, his slave ancestry past and a hair dryer. all in one month. how does he stay fat? it would seem to me, that someone running to every newspaper, radio and television station for statements and matches to spark controversy has to burn off some excess weight.

al is a shark. he smelled imus' blood and attacked. he saw the sponsors reeling and he pushed them. but now he has a problem. the censorship snowball started rolling and the media didn't take but two minutes to turn the conservation from don imus and his remarks to rap music's lyrics and hip hop in general. it was sort of like, "hey, sharpton you got one of ours so now you have to get 100 of yours."

all of a sudden 50 cent, luda, snoop dogg and russell simmons were the men that had to answer for their work. rap videos were being scrutinized. black people and their language toward each other were being debated. see what happens when people start censoring? al should have just accepted the apology and moved on. but no, now he is going to have to hurt a very important part of his constituency; well to do, hard working, motivated african americans in the entertainment industry. if he doesn't take steps to ban, censor or fire someone in hip hop, he will lose the credibility he has worked so hard to build 20 years after tawana brawley.