Word: sharptons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to admit that I was expecting the worst when I went to hear the Rev. Al Sharpton speak in Emerson Hall on Wednesday night...
Still shaken by what I'd read of the hateful diatribe delivered by Nation of Islam spokesperson Khalid Muhammad at Kean College in November, and remembering Sharpton's history, I was prepared to hear a no-holds-barred attack on white Americans...
...continue the proud legacy of the civil rights movement and take up the struggle for racial equality in the United States. "The symbol of Blacks in the '60's was Martin Luther King... Do you want the symbol of Blacks in the '90's to be Snoop Doggie Dogg?" Sharpton asked...
...Sharpton shared with the audience his vision for the continuation of the civil rights struggle. He advocated gun control, alternatives to incarceration in order to deal with rising crime and reprioritizing resources to focus on poverty instead of the space program and the military...
...good message, to be sure. But is Al Sharpton a good messenger? And was he being sincere...