I picked up that line also. I wondered how Al and racial justice could appear in the same article.
Let me guess - Strom Thurman left an estate,,,, and Al Sharpton found out?
"After Thurmond passed, I noted that he did so having never publicly rejected - or even acknowledged - his racist legacy."
A condition that Robert Byrd maintains today.
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this story keeps on crackin' me up!
If all the Thurmonds were like Strom then we must all have that DNA.
Ya know, it's stories like this that reinforce the fact that God has a sense of humor.
A DNA test?
To what end?
Do you really think anyone (if by some ridiculous stretch of the imagination) would admit to having a kindred relationship with the likes of your nasty, bigoted, racist person?
Or are you going after the money, "Reverend"?
I know that Mr. Thurmond left a couple of dollars in his estate.
Is that it, "Reverend", is that what it's all about?
Surely you don't want to just be able to call Strom "Daddy", now do you?
Sharpton makes me sick.
I am amazed at the number of good black people that hang on this fool's every word, never seeing the hypocrisy, bigotry and racism of the man.
Strom Thurmond changed (or at least gave the appearance of changing) his racist views late in life. Do you think Sharpton ever will?
Truth be Told , this fat jerk should be in prison for the Tawana Brawley Phony Rape Case.
And while the Philadelphia Courts are considering disallowing christians to protest at Homosexual parades and might give them 11 years in prison, how many times did this Idiot Sharpton close the brooklyn Bridge and other public ways with no more than a slap on the wrist.
This story is Ho Hum Claptrap playing into this race hustlers hand.
I wonder if a list of the "black establishment" and their academic records have ever been assembled in one place. It amazes me that black activists have such a poor record of optimizing the benefits that they strive so mightily for. They have not achieved in the areas of education, business, science, etc. There higher academic achievements are common at best. While preaching about lofty goals, they have settled for mediocrity. When compared to so many accomplished black leaders in their chosen fields, they are shown for the hucksters that they are. In fact, if people of color do succeed, they are too white, or not one of us, or not the right kind of black. How pathetic.
The too unsubtle message is not to take advantage of what is available, but decry the lack of more opportunities and ask for more money.
You can bet Rev. Al is angling for a hand out and not a hand up.
I knew the Donkey Party was 100% morally bankrupt when they allowed Sharpton to appear on a Dem platform as a PRESIDENTIAL!!! candidate. I was convinced most Dems would see this and draw the appropriate conclusions. I was wrong. The chairman of the local Dem party in my area positively beamed about Sharpton after returning from a Dem Party confab in Washington before the 2004 election. His candidacy said as much about Dem voters as it did about him.