White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONI`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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