“but to hear Sharpton speak about what he had to ‘OVERCOME’ to make it, I expect to hear the unreleased ‘house’ versions of ‘Swing low,sweet chariot’ any day now.”
Come now, he wasn’t a slave or anything, and there have been loads of poor white boys to strike it rich. But he did have humble beginnings, and by all accounts a rough childhood. Even within his own family he had to work hard to stand out.