ANDY MARTINO , New York Daily News
- An outraged Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for the New York Post to take immediate action to address an Oct. 27 column that he calls “blatant racism” and a “media lynching.”
Post columnist Steve Serby led his column Monday morning with “Good for Tom Coughlin. Good for Coughlin for tightening the noose around Plaxico Burress.”
Burress has been fined and benched many times by the Giants this season for infractions including tardiness and missing multiple practices.
The wide receiver skipped a treatment on Saturday for his ailing neck, and was benched during the first quarter of the Giants win in Pittsburgh Sunday.
In criticizing Burress, Serby used a racially loaded and offensive term, Sharpton tells the Daily News. “To make such a blatant racist statement about an African-American football player with a neck injury is completely unacceptable,” Sharpton says. “Clearly, the racial connotation is very disturbing … This is the verbal reflection of a hanging noose.”
