The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
AL SHARPTONThere 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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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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