Are Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and company civil rights leaders or black's rights leaders? Currently whites are being kicked off their farms in Zimbabwe, yet the silence from the supposed 'civil rights' activists is deafening. You can bet that if the situation were reversed, and blacks were being booted off of their farms, there would be nothing but outrage and contempt voiced on a daily basis.

The sad fact is that the citizens of Zimbabwe are bound to suffer. Zimbabwe is already having trouble producing enough food to stave off a famine, and taking farmland away from the few productive farmers is only going to make the situation worse. Large plantations are going to be divided up and given to multiple black families, with no thought to just how they are supposed to farm the land. Not only do they not know much about farming, but there is insufficient infrastructure in place to make the smaller farms productive. The UN estimates that up to 6 million people in Zimbabwe will soon go hungry. When that happens, look for Jessie and Reverend Al to make an appearance on the media circuit, looking for handouts.

The problem with people like Jackson and Sharpton is that they are too reactionary. Since the press is better when people are dying, they will continue to wait and bide their time. It would be nice to see Jackson and Sharpton be proactive by standing up for the citizens of Zimbabwe sooner rather than later. The election in Zimbabwe was marked with human rights abuses, fraud, intimidation, and murder. Thousands of people, blacks as well as whites, were kept away from the polls, yet Jackson and Sharpton made no public outcry, and coverage in the media has been sparse. What are they waiting for?