Rev. Al Sharpton

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924 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 13 Aug

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Because what Trump and this era and this ilk is doing is hurting all of us.

So even though we may have different lanes, we're all on the same highway of needing to have freedom protected for everybody.

No doubt about it.

And those of us that raise that issue, we become controversial.

And you need to sit back sometime and say, well, wait a minute.

What is controversial about saying that people should not be treated differently because of the color of their skin?

The fact is that once you get away with that, then you can go on to gender, then you can go on to anti-Semitism, on and on and on.

Because once you allow the choosing who is equal and who is worthy... Mm-hmm.

then you've already started to give legitimacy to people making choices.

We're all human.

And we all should have the same human value.

The reason why blacks have been more impacted is because the country started

enslaving blacks, identified easily because of our color, and they made it law that blacks were three-fifths of a man.

No one else had a legal situation against them.

But once they did it normal, just like blacks had problems voting, women couldn't vote.

And then it goes on and on.

So I think that once we deal with the commonality

of being victims of bias, then that's the majority of the country.

It makes me feel like the photos I saw as a kid of them blocking Fannie Lou Hamer or blocking Dr. King.

And then when I got in my teenage years,

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