DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association chief, urged the league to nix Rush Limbaugh's participation in a consortium to buy the St Louis Rams.
Buying Al Sharpton's hype that Limbaugh is a racist, Smith whined that football is at its best "when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred."
But who are the discriminators and haters here?
Sharpton blocked Limbaugh like Governor Orval Faubus tried to block black children from entering Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
Limbaugh can't make an investment because some don't like him? Based on something he did? No, based on who they allege he is.
Once blacks could not live as equals in America because of their race. Because of bigotry, they could not freely mix in society at large, buy a house, get a loan, or vote.
Dr. King led a movement whose goal was supposedly that the ideals and laws of a free society apply to all. That a person's humanity and God given rights are generic and cannot be denied because of myth, slander, or innuendo about whom they supposedly are.
Unfortunately, these are not the ideals of the race entrepreneurs who took over this movement and who refuse to recognize its completion because it would put them out of business.
We see today that if Al Sharpton does not like a man, and he pulls circumstantial evidence to claim he is a racist, he can get that man's rights to freely operate and do business in our society abrogated. It is a process no different from the past in which racists produced "information" that "proved" that blacks were inferior and incapable of living as free and equal citizens.
But give credit where it's due. Sharpton is a skilled entrepreneur and knows how to get his business done.
What is pathetic is the gutless, ill informed, and misguided businessmen and businesswomen, from all walks of American life, who are ready to cave to race blackmail at the drop of a hat.
Like racists of the past who bought bigoted claims about blacks to rationalize their racism, so NFL team owners showed zero interest in investigating claims and allegations made about Limbaugh.
There was zero interest in the fact that Limbaugh never made most of the provocative statements attributed to him. Zero interest in investigating if the few remarks that Rush did indeed make that might be construed, as incendiary was indicative that he is racist. And no interest to see if Limbaugh actually ever did anything that might be considered discriminatory.
Captains of American industry -- multimillionaires and billionaires who own NFL franchises -- acted with the greatest of ease to discriminate against Limbaugh based only on allegations from those who hate him.
One of the owners vocal against Limbaugh was Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons. Blank is a billionaire who co-founded Home Depot.
Blank's family foundation makes contributions to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was founded by eugenicist and racist Margaret Sanger and is the number one killer of unborn black children in the nation. A few years ago Planned Parenthood workers were recorded agreeing to earmark someone's contributions for only black abortions.
In my view, Blank's support of Planned Parenthood is infinitely more damaging to America's black community than any off-handed remark made by Rush Limbaugh. Should Blank be forced to divest his ownership in the Falcons?
American businessmen should be the first defenders of the principles of our free society. Sadly, few even seem to know what they are, let alone defend them.
America's largest corporations funnel millions every year to Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and black left wing organizations that promote moral relativism and socialism.
Its no wonder that so many Americans sense today that American greatness is becoming a relic of history.
(Star Parker is president of CURE, Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (www.urbancure.org). She can be reached at parker(at)urbancure.org.)
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
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mark of the liberals
now a days i noticed a trend that is engulfing the US and even the rest of the world... i call it "the mark of the liberal" as in relation to "the mark of the beast" referred to the bible. since Rush didn't bare this "mark" he is barred from purchasing items such as a football team. US citizens are being forced to wear this mark in order to get healthcare... less you be penalized for not cooperating. same with brilliant scientist that are expelled and stripped of all funding from univeristies for contradicting evolution, ie intellegent design. enemies are given more rights to speak freely than those who are free to speak, ie gitmo detainees vs tea party. mark of the liberals, wear it if you want rights. don't if you know you are right.
sharpton, rush
Why is Star Parker so concerned about Rush Limbaugh's civil rights? He is a multi-millionaire with enough money to purchase and smoke the finest cigars in the world. He is on the radio for 3 hours a day. Surly he can speak for himself on this matter. If he can't purchase a football team please excuse me if I don't cry very large tears.
There are plenty of stories about poor people with limited resources who have been abused or deprived of their civil rights that need to be exposed. Any sympathy for an African American girl sentenced to jail for pushing a hall monitor when the judge who tried her case sentenced a white girl to probation for burning down a house?
How about a white man who was put to death in Texas for a crime that he probably did not commit?
Please, lets use our media voices to help someone who has no voice.
Well Said
Great commentary Ms. Parker. Fairness and equality need to be available to everyone...not just to individuals or groups that were discriminated against in the past (no argument that this still occurs). Sharpton and Jackson are caricatures of what Dr. King was and in my mind do his memory a disservice with their vitriol and self-serving attitude (see Mr. Jackson's comments regarding our current President if you doubt). I personally can't stomach Mr. Limbaugh's program. I think he is as self-serving as the two individuals that I just mentioned. None of that, however, should have anything to do with having one standard that is applicable to all regardless of race or ethnicity.
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