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Will someone please answer me this? How in the name of all that is good and decent did the self-promoting racial hustler par excellence Al Sharpton ever get to be respectable? So much so he was handed his own TV show on an NBC outlet?
No, just kidding. Foolish question, because it’s all too clear: We’re talking nearly three decades of mainstream media enabling. Actually, there’s a kind of frightening logic to it. The media has treated Sharpton with kid gloves all these years because, in the end, the view he so tirelessly promotes—of an irredeemably racist America, in which black people’s failures are more society’s fault than their own—is one they share.
Quite simply, whether in ignorance, ideological blindness or simple fear, the media, ever fixated on the racism angle, has doggedly refused to face the harder truths of race in America. Indeed, an excellent case can be made that it is in the racial arena, more than in any other, that its distorted worldview has done the most grievous harm.