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RandallFan
07-04-2016, 08:58 PM
“You’re supposed to be attracted to Negroes you ain’t never seen before. I mean, they must have a laboratory to just create these Negroes,” Sharpton said at the time. “Just because you joined the church this Sunday doesn’t mean you get to preach next Sunday. You gotta pay some dues.”


The Rev. Al Sharpton backpedaled on a fiery, racially-tinged speech he made on Saturday (http://observer.com/2016/06/negroes-you-aint-never-seen-before-al-sharpton-tears-into-race-for-rangel-seat/) and called for an end to “acrimony and rancor” in Congressman Charles Rangel’s district, a day after State Senator Adriano Espaillat defeated Harlem Assemblyman Keith Wright (http://observer.com/2016/06/fall-of-the-house-of-rangel-espaillat-tops-wright-to-replace-retiring-congressman/) in the Democratic primary to replace the retiring 23-term representative.

Sharpton pleaded for reconciliation between the diverse communities of the upper Manhattan-based seat, which last night voted to set Espaillat (http://observer.com/2016/06/in-his-third-attempt-adriano-espaillat-claims-a-congressional-victory/) on the road to become the country’s first Dominican-American congressman. The district, which is now majority Latino, will thus send its first non-black representative to the House of Representatives since legendary African-American lawmaker Adam Clayton Powell Jr. won it in 1944.

http://observer.com/2016/06/after-weekend-race-rant-al-sharpton-wants-coming-together-in-rangels-district/

enhanced_deficit
07-08-2016, 08:56 PM
It is hard to understand whichever point he was trying to make.