On Mar 21, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
> SPIEGEL: Does it not count that he himself is black?
>
> SHARPTON: He's certainly an impressive figure, but he cannot just get
> the support of all of the black community because he's black. We
> are no
> longer intoxicated by having the first black president. We had the
> first
> black secretary of state and the second black secretary of state and
> they brought us the most wicked war in our lifetime. So you have to be
> more than our color. You have to be our kind.
I love Al Sharpton. I saw a gossip item somhwhere recently that he's really jealous of all the press Obama is getting, though.
Doug