Friday, June 08, 2007

Al Sharpton is right

Wait let me say that again so even I understand what just happened. I said, "Al Sharpton is right." I am as concerned as you are that I find myself on the same side of an issue as the Reverend. Reacting to Paris Hilton's release he stated that "Though I have nothing but empathy for Ms. Hilton whom I have met and appeared with on Saturday Night Live the night I hosted in 2003, this early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color. There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released."

I will agree with him on the economic side of this claim. He may be right on the racial side, but there I am less certain than he is, though he may be right. I believe that it may have been a simple concern that a law suit would be filed on be half of Ms. Hilton that caused the sheriff to release her to house arrest.

Paris claims to have learned a lot from her time in jail. What did she learn? "Make sure to hang on to enough of daddy's money to get out of jail in the future." That seems to me to be the only lesson our correctional system has managed to teach her and the rest of society. Now can we please get back to real news?

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