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...intend to talk about the need for more black leaders to be engaged in the political process," Sharpton said in a phone interview with The Crimson Yesterday...
Controversial Black activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton will address members of the Harvard community tonight, calling on Blacks to get more involved in government...
...this: a phalanx of skinheads with machine guns would invade the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. The congregation would be sprayed with bullets, and the pastor, (the Rev.) Cecil Murray, would be murdered. Across the U.S., other blacks were potential targets -- Rodney King, (the Rev.) Al Sharpton, the rap group Public Enemy, perhaps even a baseball player. An all-out race war would be triggered, a final, bloody Ragnarok of the races...
...Sharpton, who anticipates a bid for U.S. Senate in 1994, also addressed the Rodney King beating, calling last spring's Los Angeles riots in the aftermath of the King verdict, the "result of decades of negligence...
...advocated more federal intervention. "There will always be a riot around the corner until the system is changed," Sharpton said. "We need to spell out what is excessive force...