Al Sharpton’s Dishonest Opinion

Reverend Sharpton criticized the republicans, who he calls the “Christian right,” yesterday for talking about abortion and same-sex marriages too much in their political discussions.

Mr. Sharpton goes on to say that blacks should be talking about poverty, equal education, and other “social justices,” whatever that means. Basically, he thinks everyone should still be talking about racism. Well Mr. Sharpton, you can think whatever you’d like, but why do you need a comedian or some Hollywood drug addict with you every time you make a statement? Yesterday’s water boy was Dick Gregory, by the way.

Anyway, Sharpton goes on to condemn the new voter ID law in Indiana that requires people to present a valid form of identification before voting. This criticism is fundamentally dishonest and cloaked behind a smoke a mirrors argument that the law steps on individual freedoms. In reality, there is no right to vote in the United States; though there are specifications for how you can and can’t limit voting. Mr. Sharpton refers to the new law as a “poll tax, or other barriers to voting blacks have faced.” The last time I checked, this bill didn’t advocate collecting any money. The last time I checked, it was just as easy for blacks to get an ID as it is for whites–hell, illegal immigrants have them, social security number and all.

See, preventing people who are not citizens from voting harms the democrats because they rely on a heavy illegal alien vote, among other things such as people voting twice, dead people voting, and people voting in more than one state. Asking for identification before allowing someone to vote violates nothing.

I’d also like to share with you that Sharpton is wondering why black high school kids aren’t graduating. He starts off by blaming the economy (blaming a booming economy for poverty and black failures kinda takes away some of your credit doesn’t it?), but in all fairness he does a great job of actually pinpointing one of the real reasons; the “breakdown of family and morality.” Good job Mr. Sharpton; and you said it without adding a racial slur. Bonus points.

In reality however, before you begin to charge the families with the crime of black kids not graduating, try looking at the system all-together. White kids are graduating, but a lot of them can’t read. They can’t do math without a NASA grade calculator bigger than some of today’s personal computers, they have no life skills, they can’t balance a checkbook, and they’re getting dumber. This isn’t a black vs. white problem, this is a government education problem. The real reason for the failures is the fact that the government runs education. If Mr. Sharpton were an honest democrat he would actually advocate shrinking the governments duties of educating the public, support vouchers, and campaign for privatization. If schools saw kids as clients instead of brats they have to babysit, black kids and white kids would be graduating; and they’d actually be able to read their diploma. But government and shrinking can’t go in the same sentence when a democrat is speaking. To me, it is obvious that Mr. Sharpton doesn’t really want to solve the problem, he’d rather just bank off of it like he does on most issues.

And of course the dishonest ACLU has rushed to his side and challenged the law. Didn’t see that coming.