Black conservative blasts Jackson and Sharpton over Imus flapChad Groening OneNewsNow.comApril 18, 2007Black conservative leader Jesse Lee Peterson is blasting Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for their response to the controversy surrounding talk-show host Don Imus. Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), believes the black liberal pundits are trying to create another race crisis over Imus's insulting remark about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
"When Jackson and Sharpton stepped up to the forefront of this issue, it was an absolute disappointment to see the media pushing them forward as if they're the gatekeepers of the black community," Peterson notes. "That's an insult," he says. "Those men are corrupt."
And while Don Imus clearly made foolish comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, he has apologized to the student athletes, and his employers have dealt with him, the BOND spokesman insists. "I believe that he owed them an apology and maybe the company that he worked for," Peterson asserts, "but he didn't offend all black women. He did not offend all black people."
There are far greater problems facing the black community, and Don Imus is not one of them, Peterson contends. Also, he says both Jackson and Sharpton have been caught using racial slurs against Jews and whites and have yet to apologize.
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