Why The Civil Rights Movement Is Dead

Because defending black men who rape black women is apparently now the province of the movement's leaders. Witness, the one and only, Al Sharpton--backed by local NAACP officials, no less--weighing in on the fantastically gruesome Dunbar Village rape case. Instead of standing for some decency and conceding that, yes, some people do deserve to go to jail, Sharpton has decided to argue that this group of black gang rapists are being treated harsher than a white group of gang rapists.

The Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP activists stood outside the State Attorney's Office Tuesday morning, protesting what they say is disparate handling of black teens accused in the rape of a Dunbar Village woman and her son and white teens from suburban Boca Raton accused in the rape of their drunk friends.

Sharpton said the black teens remain jailed and the white teens are free on bond, despite them committing the "same act."

"To have different reactions to the same set of circumstances is a crime in itself,"  Sharpton said.

Umm, no:

In the Dunbar Village case, four teens are charged with armed sexual battery for the June crime where they allegedly forced the woman at gunpoint to have sex multiple times, including with her son. Police say the teens then used cleaning agents on the victims afterwards in an attempt to cover their crimes, including stuffing a bar of soap inside the woman. They face possible life in prison.

In the Boca case, five teens are charged with sexual battery on a helpless person because the then 13- and 14-year-old female victims had downed repeated shots of vodka.

Both heinous, no doubt, but come on dude. In 2008, this is really what it's come to?

This is the exact reason why, increasingly, "black leaders" are being ignored by actual "black people." Where is the audience, among black folks, for equal treatment under the law for gang-rapists of black women? I understand that logically you could make a case, but this is also about the moral high-ground. Are we really concerned more about equal treatment for these cats (who've been linked by DNA evidence!) than we are about the welfare of this woman and her son? 

My opinions of Sharpton are well-known. But his behavior in this instance goes beyond media grand-standing and into some really sleazy areas. As for the NAACP, this is just another example of why the group is fading into obscurity. In this era, no "civil rights leader" who sees white racism around every corner, who looks at blacks and whites as ideas, as concepts, as a mass of pawns, instead of people deserving individual consideration can continue to be relevant.

If there is any boon to Obama it's the end of this sort of uncomplicated thinking. I halfway want him to loose because I think if anyone is qualified to pick up the "president of black America" mantle, it's this cat. Oh who are we kidding. He already has it. Now he's going for more.