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...more conventionally groomed. That's when he got his first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list that could serve as an American Dissidents' Hall of Fame: Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Bruce, Al Sharpton, flag burner Gregory Johnson, Indian activist Leonard Peltier, Attica prison rioters, Malcolm X and-decades later-Malcolm's daughter Qubilah Shabazz. Kunstler's combative defense of the Chicago Seven brought him four years' worth of contempt citations (none of it served). His use of courtrooms as high- profile political platforms...
...white-media conspiracy" to embarrass African Americans by toppling yet another black icon -- as happened to Clarence Thomas, Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson. The saturation of TV coverage appalls many blacks. "It's suspect when all networks on television turn into Court TV," says the Rev. Al Sharpton, a New York political activist. The proliferation of black talking heads called upon to comment on racial aspects of the case is even seen by some as racist. "Why don't they use black experts to talk about the legality of mergers and acquisitions, or matters unrelated to race?" asks Philip Eure...
...sisters and brothers could be so envious, so jealous and so spiteful." The conference had been organized with high hopes of hammering out solutions to social and economic problems. "If we can come out of here with a health-care strategy . . . that would be effective," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. "Otherwise, it was just a revival meeting." His fear was justified. The summit produced mostly rhetoric that underscored the risk of Chavis' strategy. By moving the group away from its integrationist tradition and embracing black nationalism, Chavis may alienate the sources of financing that the cash-strapped group desperately needs...
...jerks" and makes the two offenses somehow coequal. Andrea Dworkin has simplified the discussion by asserting that every act of sex between a man and a woman, no matter what, is rape. (Some feminists edge nervously away from Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, who are the Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan of feminism, extremists who are convenient targets for antifeminists...
...recent years, we've gone from [Martin Luther] King and Malcolm [X.] to Snoop Doggy Dogg," Sharpton said...