What do you think? Is Rev.Charleton , I mean Rev. Al , a great man and maybe the greatest civil rights leader over the last twenty five or thirty years? Or has Geraldo been cracked over the head too many times with a chair?

 

Uh, no, Al Sharpton is not a great civil rights leader. His fifteen minutes of fames should have run out, oh, about fifteen years ago.

I think you have to have one before you can actually lose it:thumb:

 

Not being Africian American I don't know if I can answer this question but I will give it my best shot. I know that there are a lot of really good leaders in the Africian American Community but I just don't think there has been a really great one since MLK. MLK had compassion for all people and not just for the people of his own race. MLK only spoke into a microphone when he had something to say and what he said was worth listening to. MLK seemed to care more about other instead of himself. Those are not things that I am seeing in the "leaders" today. Perhaps "we all" should take a lesson from him - start acting like leaders instead of saying we are.

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Chair more like a Acme Anvil! Rev. Al. is just a television hog.

I know what you're saying (that was slightly my point, as to downplay Sharpton a little). But then again, can't he be both? He may not give the speeches that those other guys do, but he still provides a platform in which racial prejudice is intolerable.

I dunno, this could be a good discussion.

No he doesn't.

 

He prejudges whites regularly. Ask the Duke Lacrosse players, the Tawana Brawley policemen, etc.

I'll choose an Andrew Young over an Al Sharpton any day.

I'll choose an Andrew Young over an Al Sharpton any day.

Andrew Young has always shown himself to be a good decent person. He must have learned a lot from MLK.

 

Jesse and Al are just glory hounds. They are both so quick to the microphone and start spewing out "just words" before they stop long enough to listen. I really think that before these two men start trying to sweep off other people's doorsteps, they had better clean off their own first.

I'll choose an Andrew Young over an Al Sharpton any day.

 

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No he doesn't.

 

He prejudges whites regularly. Ask the Duke Lacrosse players, the Tawana Brawley policemen, etc.

This is what I don't like about Sharpton.

No he doesn't.

 

He prejudges whites regularly. Ask the Duke Lacrosse players, the Tawana Brawley policemen, etc.

 

I guess I wasn't clear there. I was talking about Denzel Washington, NOT Sharpton.

It's kind of ironic, considering he's white, but you could make a case for Morris Dees.

I guess I wasn't clear there. I was talking about Denzel Washington, NOT Sharpton.

I can buy that

May be getting the name wrong, but for Al Sharpton his status of legitimacy rests in the young girl of Tawana Browley.

It's kind of ironic, considering he's white, but you could make a case for Morris Dees.

Very true. He has to be considered one of the most important civil rights leaders in history. I think the term is proven results.

It's kind of ironic, considering he's white, but you could make a case for Morris Dees.

Being white shouldn't preclude him from being one of the important civil rights leaders.

Being white shouldn't preclude him from being one of the important civil rights leaders.

 

I agree with that wholeheartedly, but I bet Jesse and Al would disagree, as would other more militant blacks.