>In contrast, to ascribe just to his skin color or indeed to his
>"rabble rousing" speech style a distrust of Sharpton is
>simple-mindedly to mislead, because focus primarily on these
>features but without further analysis is to deflect from the guy's
>very long history of self-interested hustling, (at best)
>questionable financial dealings, willingness in the past to act as
>an undercover F.B.I. informant against even his (putative) closse
>friends, his local (N.Y.C., especially Bklyn.-Queens based)
>alliances with at best very shady characters, his being funded in
>his recent national campaign with at best dubious Republican Party
>funders/operatives, Etc., ETC., etc.
>
>Granted, he is sly, clever, and also a usually sharp-witted and
>satirically funny speaker, also an assiduous networker (though,
>again, evidently mostly in his own self-interest).
What can I say? Rev Al was my candidate - I voted for him in the primary. He does carry a bit of baggage, but the guy sure can give a speech.
Doug