Make That Two Guides...

Dirty Harry at Libertas gives his view on the whole Imus/Rutgers/Nappy head controversy, which just happens to nicely coincide with my own. My favorite part being...

Uh-oh.

Could someone send me a guide? And be real sure to include phrases black people use affectionately towards each other that would offend coming from me but not from Tarantino or not from me in a Tarantino movie if Tarantino directed but it had black people where he was acting and not only directing and I said the line to a black person but there was more than three white people in the room and Sam jackson said it was okay and not on the radio.

Though just as important as the do's and don'ts is who is making up the list of do's and don'ts, specifically who died and gave that job to Al "Freddy's Fashion Mart" Sharpton.

If you haven't heard of Freddy's Fashion Mart don't feel bad. There has been a conscious effort on the part of the Mainstream Media to toss the episode down the memory hole. And not just the MSM. Check out Al Sharpton's Wikipedia entry. Search for any mention of Freddy's Fashion Mart (or of anything Sharpton did in 1995 or in fact anything he did between 1991 and 1999). Look anywhere on Wikipedia for Freddy's Fashion Mart.
Nothing.
Here's a little background from FrontPageMag...

...it took eight lives. The murderous rampage was set in motion when the United House of Prayer, one of the largest black landlords on 125th Street, raised the rent on the Fashion Mart owned by a Jew, Freddy Harari, who then raised the rent on his subtenant, Sikhulu Shange, who ran a record store. Recognizing that the quickest way to gain support in a landlord-tenant dispute is to turn it into a racial issue, Mr. Shange went to Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network, which in turn knew that the quickest way to build a crowd in Harlem is to rouse racial hatreds. Mr. Sharpton and the daily picketers did their job brilliantly. He opened his public campaign against Freddy's on WWRL radio, warning: "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th Street."

After two months of rhetorical violence, protester Roland Smith ran into the store with guns blazing and burned it down. When it was over, Smith had killed himself and seven others. Armed with a .38-caliber revolver, he shot three whites and a Pakistani in cold blood—he had mistaken the light-skinned Pakistani for a Jew, and then set the fire that killed five Hispanics, one Guyanese, and one black, a security guard whom the protesters had taunted as a "cracker lover."

UPDATE 4/12/2007: The Wikipedia entry has been changed.