Word: sharptons
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...Sharpton denies any such intention. Jackson has been his role model since Sharpton's days as a child evangelist. "I'm not one to think that Rev. Jackson's finished," he says. "I'm not trying to take advantage of his travail. My rise is not at Jesse's expense. If I'm rising it's because I've done the work on issues like police brutality that affect huge numbers of our people...
Maybe. But Sharpton's supporters can hardly contain their glee when they cite their evidence that Sharpton is ascending as Jackson sinks. They point out that when rioting erupted in Cincinnati, Ohio, last month over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, black clergymen prevailed on Sharpton to cut short a fact-finding tour about slavery in Sudan and fly in to lead a rally. They claim, without offering proof, that Jackson was rebuffed when he tried to wrangle a similar invitation. "Jesse's not the go-to guy anymore," says a Sharpton admirer. Jackson, who denies scrounging...
...Sharpton has been practicing the role of New Jackson for years. He has patterned his career on Jackson's, mimicking his every move. Sharpton's National Action Network is modeled on Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Sharpton's Madison Avenue Initiative, which pressures white companies to buy more ads in black-owned media, resembles Jackson's Wall Street Project, which pressures corporations to create more investment opportunities for blacks. And now Sharpton is planning to rip the ultimate page from Jackson's book by running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004--the same strategy Jackson used 20 years...
...idea came to him, Sharpton says, while he sat under a tree seeking relief from the Sudanese sun. "I feel that the Democratic Party must be challenged in 2004 because it didn't fight aggressively to protect our voting rights in Florida," he says. "I think we need to look at running a black in the primary. I have said I would be available to do it." It remains to be seen how much appeal Sharpton would have outside New York City, where his peaceful protests after police shootings have quieted some, but hardly all, of the deep qualms aroused...
...into a masterly manipulator of New York's tabloid press and an astute political power broker, but his army of critics charges that he has not outgrown a tendency to play the crassest kind of racial politics. Case in point: the convoluted New York imbroglio this month in which Sharpton was reported to have offered to endorse Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer--a Puerto Rican who's trying to win the Democratic mayoral nomination by building a coalition of Latino and black voters--if and only if Ferrer backed a slate of black candidates Sharpton favored. The New York Times...