I read it quite differently than most of you. I thought Sharpton was saying that color had nothing to do with it and that people should vote for the candidate based on policy and not based on color. "Just because you are our color doesn't make you our kind", where "our kind" means liberal and not moderate. Obama is seen more as a moderate. I don't think anything he was saying had anything to do with slavery.

Sharpton has shown plenty of times in the past that policy is more important to him than race. The most recent example of this that comes to mind is when he supported Andrew Cuomo in the 2002 election for New York State Governor instead of Carl McCall (who is black).

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