Word: sharpton
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...could be tapped: In New York, the former Clinton appointee has distinguished himself as a keen reformer under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. An attorney by training, Klein has also shown himself adept at working with unlikely partners - union leaders as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton - and is a major proponent of charter schools, a keystone in Obama's education agenda...
...University of Maryland's African American Leadership Center, says, "You can't send young volunteers into the hollows of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida with BlackBerries, reaching out to black voters, and expect them to do the same kind of job. If people knew Jesse [Jackson] or Al [Sharpton] was coming, thousands would come out and do what they needed to do - show up on Election Day." Walters contends that blacks could account for as much as 20% of the Democratic vote nationally, up from 15% in 2004. "For [Obama's advisers] to hold the black civic culture at a distance...
...Although the Rev. Al Sharpton has vigorously campaigned in North Carolina and Pennsylvania in recent weeks to motivate black voters, Sharpton says his efforts are "independent." In an interview with TIME last week, Sharpton said, "I'm doing it because I think it's right, because we're looking for Obama to be a crusader for social justice." But at the same time, Sharpton said, "You've got to use people that can draw a crowd. Otherwise, you're making this race a lot closer than it needs to be. You're not maximizing the enthusiasm of some of your...
...year-old New York City immigrant from Trinidad, was targeted by a white mob when he ended up in the wrong part of Brooklyn. He was struck by a car and killed as he tried to flee his attackers. Subsequently, a then obscure Baptist minister named Al Sharpton led a march through Brooklyn, a march that itself nearly led to violence. A few months later, New York mayor Ed Koch wrote a New York Times op-ed explaining that his "outrage" at the incident had led him to support hate-crimes laws. "Hate crimes, if not responded to, tend...
...grasp the difference, imagine if the Democrats had nominated Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Republicans would have slammed them as profligate, divisive and militant but not as foreign. Even racists couldn't deny that Jackson and Sharpton are fully American. In fact, because slavery ruptured ancestral ties of language and culture, African Americans often have fewer transnational connections than Americans whose forebears traveled voluntarily to these shores. Our national vernacular is filled with antiblack euphemisms, but cosmopolitan isn't one of them...