Al Sharpton is at it again, showing his face wherever opportunity presents a venue that will maximize the exposure. It's been all over the news, the events he is responding to, about the happenings in Jena, LA. Leonard Pitts wrote an opinion about the situation, which can be found here, among other places. Pretty interesting, but what's even more interesting are the comments some make about it turning into a reverse discrimination situation. My comment is below, posted here for, as usual, posterity.....

Before that though, more thoughts on Sharpton. He said this when he stood up to speak. "This is the start of the 21st-century civil rights movement,..." Yeah, ok. in his fuckin dreams. He is no leader, nothing like Mr King. He is a parasite that sustains itself with the sweat of others. When he speaks, it's about him, not the situation at hand.

I found a video I thought was interesting. After that, the comments.....

Message to Mr. Al Sharpton

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I find it hard to believe anyone can justify to themselves that these six boys should be charged with attempted murder. I also find it hard to believe how many people are commenting and obviously favoring the white kid as if this is an isolated incident. Nobody here that thinks this is reverse discrimination understands the depth of the problem there. This is one of a string of incidents that gained national attention with the noose in the tree. Even THAT incident is just one in a string of events that are indicative of the oppressive atmosphere the minorities have been enduring since who knows when.

A group of white students thought it would be ok to hang a noose from a tree after some black students asked to be able to share the shade of the tree. How seriously misguided are the attitudes in this town where students think this is ok? How skewed are the perspectives there when the DA thinks it is ok to tell black students he can end their lives with a stroke of his pen?

Al Sharpton doesn't help, if he wanted to he would have been there long before this. He was only there to show his face, arriving because that is where the cameras are pointed, to bring attention to himself, not the problems in the town. Those demonstrating should be asking him where the hell he's been until this point. He fancies himself an activist, but activists make things happen, they don't follow what's happening.