Reply #243: Then it's Sharpton who's racist [View All]

[ShimokitaJer]

I'm just looking at the census data, which doesn't mention skin color. If Sharpton chose to specify skin color in this, I don't see how that makes him more enlightened. If Dean can make it through the day judging people without judging people based on the color of their skin and Sharpton can't, I know who I'd rather have as president

Sharpton is way behind in the polls and he saw an opportunity for a cheap shot that couldn't help him but could only harm another candidate. He had clearly researched the answer alreday, since he specified "cabinet" rather than "administration," which would have gotten a different answer, and he phrased his attack in such a way that he hoped would make Dean look like a racist. As near as I can tell, that backfired, since the only people I see being convinced, already thought Dean was Satan, and everyone else knows it's a non-issue and is disgusted with Sharpton for playing with it.

Even you must understand that you lose credibility when you encourage this kind of divisiveness and race baiting.