The really sad part of this whole story is everytime these sorta things happen it takes over the news for 5 days. Usually in 5 days on CNN, MSNBC, or whatever there are a train wreck, 10 suicide bombings, 3 giant fires, and so forth and all people worry about is a comment about Imus and all these more important things take a back seat.
As for the Chapelle show. Im white and yes I admit I laugh, but switch the show around and have a white guy doing that and there would be no laughing at all. Al Shaperton would be protesting it like it was a world wide tragedy.
I dont know what balcks think about shaperton, but I always hear people calling in sticking up for him on the radio stations. What people need to realize, blacks and whites both is just because one of the people you look up to or follow is the same color as you doesnt mean they go about things the right way, or there always right.
I have listened to martin luther king jrs son on a few programs before, and I have alot of respect for him. If anyone should be bitter about anything it should be him not someone like Shaperton. Jr. holds himself with alot of class and dignity and never takes shots at white people for every little thing. He is smart enough to know that is not the way the way you go about doing things. I watched him on espn once and he was talking about some of his foundations that he has set up. He included alot white people in his thanks for their participation and support. He is a classy man.
If we ever expect anything to change this is what kind of civil rights activists we need. We dont need people who everytime something supposedly is racist, no matter how big or small it is made out to be 3 times as worse than it really is like Sharperton does . He can make a friendly argument seem like it was a deadly gun battle.