"Keepin It Real... phoney"

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When former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), speaking to a group of voters in Janesville, Wisconsin on Wednesday, March 27, 2012 was caught on television about to call President Obama a "Nig..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nzyvo8SKa0M#t=2065s while still on the stump, the Reverend Dr. Alfred "I-Speak-For-Every-Negro-On-Earth-But-Cannot-Talk-Or-More-Importantly-Pronounce-Anything-Clearly" Sharpton immediately picked it up on his widely listened to radio show, "Keepin It Real," which is nationally syndicated by Syndication One, an African American owned Radio One affiliate. Sharpton  hit it hard for all of one day, never mentioned it one time on the even more influential MSNBC "Politicsnation," where Santorum's unbelievable flub promptly withered on the vine. So, yes, the Fourth Estate has been deeply vested in shaping popular culture and, concomitantly, our collective perception of the prototypical - ideal - presidential candidate. But this beating up on the skinny black guy really gets my goat and strikes me as being blatantly hypocritical given some of the sources. I honestly like a great deal of President Obama's policies, while I have a significant issue with many others - e.g., National Defense Authorization Act, Patriot Act, and a bloated $3.8 trillion budget that cuts critical funding from vulnerable sectors like higher education, which would disparately impact HBCUs. To their credit, though, and in a concession to racial solidarity, not one of the HBCU presidents has publically expressed dismay over that disastrous budget knowing their comments would hold sway over a significant [read that: voting] segment of the black community. I have embedded some comic relief that illustrates Sharpton in a former life: a human punching bag for his then arch-nemesis, Roy Innis. http://www.youtube.com/​watch?v=XJBXHDYU0KA Roy Innis, the Brooklyn Brawler and former head of the now impotent Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), had a penchant for rudely choking out guests out on national television who had the temerity to call him an "Uncle Tom," or just generally disagreed with his positions... is here pummeling a rather rotund Rev. Sharpton much to his chagrin I am sure on the long defunct Morton Downey Show.

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