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Originally Posted by kea29
Men like Sharpton think that Obama doesn't play the part of "radical black man" who believes that the blanket statement of "the white man is the devil". He believes that if you are black and you work with white people and get along with them the you are somehow less black and a trader to your race. What an ignorant load of horses*^t.
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I think either you're a little confused, or you have the "they are all the same" syndrome. Either way you have a poor grasp of civil rights history.
The whole "white man is the devil" thinking came out of the Nation of Islam and was preached by Malcon X and Louie Farakan in the 1960s.
At the same time, there was much opposition to this viewpoint from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the group run by Martin Luther King Jr, Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young and
Jessie Jackson. They were in favor of peaceful coexistance and integration, and there were often public criticism of the SCLC by the Nation of Islam as being "Uncle Toms" or as Malcom X used to call them "House Negros".
Al Sharpton was part of this group and he started in Civil Rights by working for Jessie Jackson in an organization that was an offshoot of the SCLC. This "white man is the devil" thinking is exactly what they were (and are) opposed to. Instead they were and always have been in favor of full integration.