" Also, one of the post above spoke about Rev. Sharpton's involvement in black-on-black crime. I would only say that Rev. Sharpton spends much of his time addressing that very issue and has been a major voice on both Coast to try to reduce black-on-black crime as well as many other issues including police brutality, racisim etc."


I have to disagree with you about Sharpton on that topic (black on black crime), his actions don't support your claim.

Google "black on black crime" and you get a pretty good list of links, BUT, you get to a link about David Duke before you get anywhere near a link to Sharpton or even Jesse Jackson (and it's insulting to Jackson to even lump him in with Al). Even more telling is that the first link that mentions Sharpton is from 2000, over 6 years ago. (That is astounding).

Having grown up and lived in/around NYC for most of my life, maybe I have a negative bias towards him because of the Towana Brawley ridiculousness, or him getting caught on tape by the FBI trying to broker a cocaine deal, or any of a number of times where he's been an opportunistic glory hound.

It's probably not very PC of a white guy like me saying that he doesn't like a prominent black activist, but this has nothing to do with the color of his skin and everything to do with the character of the man.

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