Deafening silence from black leaders - Meeke Addison

Where are the defenders of "the cause" when you need them? When an actual social tragedy occurs, where are the self-titled leaders of the black movement? I'll answer my own question: They're busy fighting for an interview or a microphone during all of the Michael Jackson festivities.

While Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were competing for the most on-camera interviews and vying for preeminence at Michael Jackson's memorial service on the West Coast, Frank Lombard -- a white, homos*xual Duke University employee -- was being arrested on the East Coast for allegedly molesting his five-year-old black adopted son.

No planes were chartered, no press conferences were held to condemn Lombard's alleged behavior. No marches stopped traffic, no black shirts or berets were donned, and no fists were held high. Not that I necessarily approve of this behavior -- but my point is, you have a white homos*xual male who admitted online that he was "into incest" and had adopted two black children (males) because they were easier to get than their white counterparts. This man was arrested for repeatedly abusing these children, he posted the attacks online because he's sick, and his alleged victims happened to be black -- but the crickets are chirping.

Mainstream media will not even report that the man is a homos*xual or, in some instances, even that the children are black. They won't report that Frank Lombard had a live-in partner in a community that includes other homos*xual couples with black adopted children.

Black Americans, do you wonder why our "leaders" aren't getting involved? The answer is: they can't. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton especially have aligned themselves in cause with the homos*xual movement. When homos*xuals began demanding civil rights and comparing their plight to that of black Americans, Sharpton agreed. (Now while it pains me to do so, I must commend Jackson for condemning this comparison.)

Sharpton and Jackson are well-known for playing the "race card" -- but in this case, which undeniably involves racism, they fold.

In 2007, when controversial radio personality Don Imus admittedly made racist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Sharpton (among others) demanded he be fired. Furthermore, Sharpton bullied Imus into an interview in which he chastised him, asking "What is any possible reason you could feel that this kind of statement could be just forgiven and overlooked?" Oh, the hypocrisy! I suggest that Imus would have faired better during his entire ordeal had he been homos*xual. His comments would have been overlooked -- just as Sharpton now overlooks what happened to two little black children at the hands of an alleged homos*xual pedophile.

Now I may be forced to turn in my "black card" after this next comment, but I'm forging ahead. Just as most black Americans voted for Obama because of his color (without any real understanding of his policies, I might add), so now black Americans allow individuals who haven't had a true cause since the '60s to align them with practices they condemn.

That's right -- statistically, the black demographic overwhelmingly condemns homos*xuality and gay "marriage." Blacks, in fact, were critical to the passage of California's Proposition 8, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Ironic, isn't it? They were also critical to the election of Barak Obama -- who is not altogether shy about his commitment to the homos*xual agenda, who openly brags about his "LGBT appointments" to positions of power in Washington, and who during the campaign vowed to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act?

At its core, the horrific occurrence in North Carolina is not a black/white issue. I would be equally outraged if the adopted children were white and the details, as disgusting as they are, were brought out. But one cannot overlook the fact that a homos*xual man was allowed to adopt two children, allegedly for the purpose of molesting them. The fact that the children are black made them easier to adopt, thereby leading to their victimization.

This would be a perfect opportunity for the black community to stand up and demand that black children be treated with the same care as whites when being placed into adoptive families. But the opportunity is wasted because black leaders are forced to keep quiet due to the homos*xual component of this story.

Where is Hazel Dukes, NAACP New York president? Where are the members of the Congressional Black Caucus? Where is Rep. John Lewis of Georgia -- or Rep. Shelia Jackson-Lee of Texas? Let's not forget the lashing they all gave Rep. Peter King of New York for expressing his opinions about Michael Jackson, not one of which incidentally referred to his race. The Congressional Black Caucus demanded that King apologize to the Jackson family for his remarks. He hasn't -- and good for him! King should apologize when Al Sharpton -- along with every member of the Congressional Black Caucus -- apologizes for looking away while the door remains open for more s*xual deviants to adopt and molest black children.

It's important to note that in the days following Rep. King's comments, Jesse Jackson (along with Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois) accused King of "politically exploiting" Michael Jackson's death to create fodder to advance his political career. A keen observation to be sure, but let me please respond:

As you're throwing those stones, Misters Jackson and Rush, be sure to check the structures of your glass houses. The truth is, if the case in North Carolina could advance your political careers, you'd be all over it -- but in fact, it would set you back to get involved, so you look away.

While these black leaders should be outraged that requirements for adopting black children have been made out to be more lenient than for whites, a fuss really can't be made. For by their own platform they've said that homos*xuals are just like blacks -- and if that's true, then this may be just another case of black-on-black crime, which has never served to advance anyone's political career.