"This country can't find a guy who comes out every two weeks to cut a video, and then you challenge us to stand under one flag," Mr. Sharpton said.
I disagree sharply with the poster who called Sharpton a world-class jerk.
He's not a world-class anything.
The trouble is that they have no solutions to the problems besetting blacks around the world, said Kevin L. Martin, advisor to Project 21, a black Republican advocacy group.
Mr. Martin is angry that black Republicans were left off an invitation list that is remarkable more for its no-shows than the number of those who agreed to come.
"Black conservatives were not invited to the event and they want to call this the state of the black world," Mr. Martin said. "The reason there are not many people there is because black people are sick of hearing all of this rhetoric."
Why don't Black conservatives come up with their own huge conference, call it "The Conference of Black America," invite all the conservatives, and tell Al Sharpton and The "Reverend" Jesse Jackson to go to hell?
Before the opening session ended, Cosme Torres, deputy ambassador to the United Nations for Cuba, praised his communist country's civil rights record.
This just simply defies comment.
I assume you mean "were their jails filled?" I suppose you're attempting to be funny; if not, the statement is racist stereotyping. The article seemed to indicate that attendance was low due to blacks being tired of hearing the same old rhetoric.