Tonight Fox News associate Geraldo Rivera interviewed Al Sharpton and asked him candidly why the teen pregnancy rate is nearly 300% higher for minority teens than for white teens. Sharpton responded with his usual vague, double-talk nonsense that really said nothing at all. Using typical Sharpton gobbledygook terms like “…not having the right kind of infrastructure…” Yes, that’s what Al said. In fact, that was Al’s explanation. Oh, really, Al? Black kids and Hispanic children don’t have “the right kind of infrastructure” but white kids do? Do you actually believe we at home watching this interview are not catching the ridiculous foolishness and nonsense coming out of your pie hole?
Al Sharpton, from many people’s perspectives, is an arrogant, ignorant fool who craves media attention – even negative attention – and has taken advantage of and ridden the wave of silly Political Correctness in two ways. Thanks to Political Correctness, one might get the impression that (1) Black people can get away with saying foolish and ridiculous nonsense, no matter how absurd, and the media won’t call them on it solely because their skin is black. (2) All minorities have permission to be ignorant, belligerent and racist when speaking in a public forum and those who subscribe to Political Correctness (including the media) will say nothing, pretend to take these “spokesmen” and “spokeswomen” seriously, nod their heads and smile and never bring it up again, even in private. You see, Political Correctness (PC) lacks any semblance of accountability, shows extreme favoritism toward blacks and Hispanics (and Democrats and atheists and gays), shows blatant and obvious unfairness, bias and bigotry against white people, Jews, Christians, conservatives and anyone who advocates publicly for personal responsibility and/or good morals or ethics, commonly ignores the truth completely and supports lies and liars when the lies are generated by either black, liberal, Democrat, atheist, gay or Hispanic people. The truth is so horribly misrepresented by the Politically Correct left on such a regular basis that most normal American people now consider the mainstream media completely unreliable, intentionally misleading and no longer a trusted source for information about anything.
Al Sharpton is a perfect example. The man is a racist ambulance chaser who, for someone who is obviously very ignorant and consistently biased against conservatives, white people, Christians and Jews, gets more airtime than virtually every conservative, white person, Christian or Jew. Jesse Jackson enjoyed the same favor for years thanks to Political Correctness, until he fell out of favor with the media due to his infidelity and children born out of wedlock. Well, not so much due to his infidelity and children born out of wedlock, but more specifically due to those things becoming known. That is, Jesse got caught, and that was the cause of his downfall and fall from grace.
You see, the correct answer to Geraldo Rivera’s question tonight was this: Collectively speaking, black fathers have historically had a higher incidence of abandoning their children than white fathers. When little girls grow up without a father in the home, they almost inevitably become promiscuous in their early teens, trying to fill the hole in their heart that has “Daddy” written on it. Because black men seem to have the highest rate of caually impregnating their girlfriends and then abandoning them, their children naturally have the highest rate of teen pregnancy due to the emotional problems commonly caused by Dad’s abandonment coupled with their seeking love in all the wrong the places, thinking some other boy/man can fill that place in their heart that only Daddy can fill. Thus, the cycle is repeated generation after generation.
Al Sharpton doesn’t have the courage to tell the truth about this issue, which is why he blamed it on “infrastructure” when speaking to Geraldo Rivera. Subscribing to Political Correctness has apparently rendered Al incapable of rigorous honesty. Al could not bring himself to tell the truth about men in the black community, and so chose to be vague about this issue. Those on the left who subscribe to Political Correctness seem to have no real affinity for the truth, nor do they feel obligated to tell the truth. To the left, the end justifies the means, and so lying is commonplace. That the left owns the majority of the mainstream media is what is at the root of the death of real journalism: Political Correctness has killed journalism in America.
A product of a broken home himself, Mr. Sharpton doesn’t appear to have done the personal emotional work necessary to facilitate true emotional and psychological recovery from his own childhood abandonment issues. Instead, he continues to exacerbate this issue by choosing not to be frank about it, like he did tonight while being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera. Another clue which brought me to publicly express my suspicion that Al is the product of a broken home (before I googled “Al Sharpton’s parents” and found that I am indeed correct, that is) is that those who are abandoned by their fathers typically become very, very needy of attention. Not having a doting father around to encourage and support and pour love into a little boy or girl’s heart leaves a gaping, empty hole in the child’s heart. Attention-getting behavior, promiscuouity, acting out sexually or otherwise, rebelliousness, criminal and even negative attention-getting behavior are all common to children who have been abandoned by their fathers. Al exhibits virtually all of those symptoms, and yet he continues to be sought out to speak on behalf of the black community.
When a child grows up but does not endeavor to work through the emotional issues caused by abandonment and/or parental neglect or abuse, the result is people like Al Sharpton, who isn’t even embarassed to stand before a camera with a national audience and arrogantly lie, speaking boldly about issues about which he really is totally clueless. Tonight Sharpton actually explained to us all that the reason that minority teen pregnancies are almost 300% higher than white teen pregnancies was “…not having the right kind of infrastructure…” Yes, that’s what Al said. I have to wonder what kind of “infrastructure” Al was referring to, because the reason for such a disparity in teen pregnancies is due to a lack of relationship with Dad. That’s all it is.
The reason black and Hispanic children have nearly a 300% higher rate of teen pregnancy than white children is because of a higher rate of fathers abandoning their children and/or their pregnant girlfriends. It’s not about “infrastructure”. It’s about relationships, Al.
The media will call me “racist” and will deny that what I’ve said is true, but you and I both know that what I’ve said is true. I don’t care about what the media says, nor do I care what people who subscribe to Political Correctness think about my columns. Those people need serious emotional, psychological and Spiritual help which they aren’t willing to seek. I can’t help them anymore than I can help Al Sharpton. No one can help someone who isn’t willing to accept help.
So we pray for them and wait for them to ask for help. Until then, the media and clowns and fools the media chooses to fill air time with will continue to look America in the face and lie about virtually everything. Their collective and individual Denial rendering them incapable of honest personal inventory, they will remain both deceived and dishonest until such time as they seek help for their own personal emotional problems.
And I will continue to ignore ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC who are the bastions of Political Correctness, propaganda and dishonesty in journalism. If you ever wondered why such an obvious clown and buffoon such as Al Sharpton continue to get so much airtime regarding issues about which they clearly know absolutely nothing, now you know.
Allowing dysfunctional people who appear to be suffering from lifelong emotional problems, as well as anger and racist issues, to speak publicly on behalf of millions of black people on national television is a travesty. That Rivera even sought this man out in order to use him in his little circus tonight says volumes about the lack of integrity under which Geraldo Rivera conducts himself. That Fox News allows Rivera to use such an obviously affected man who has never made much of an attempt to walk closely to the truth is a disappointment to me. It shows a lack of integrity on the part of Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, and the star supposed “expert” of Rivera’s segment tonight, Al Sharpton.
The media continues to lower the bar daily, showing a complete lack of integrity and instead proving again that the media can no longer be entrusted with the responsibility of keeping we, the people informed about anything. Using Al Sharpton to misrepresent such an important social issue as teen pregnancy is proof of that. The media simply isn’t in the news business any longer. As far as entertainment is concerned, it is failing in that arena, as well.
The title of this column should have read “Al Sharpton: Pathetic, Needy and Dishonest” because that’s what he is.
