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Race Pimp Al Sharpton Plays Birther Card: Forgets About Obama's Phony Birth Certificate
Birther Report
7/29/2013
Excerpt:
Trayvon Martin, voting rights show dream not yet realized, Sharpton says in Newark
Via Ryan Hutchins @ The Star-Ledger
NEWARK — The Rev. Al Sharpton was aboard a flight halfway from Miami to LaGuardia Airport when the turbulence set in.
"They said, 'Stay in your seat,'" Sharpton recalled Sunday during a stirring address to a packed prayer rally at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark.
The turbulence lasted 23 minutes. The jet eventually leveled off. But nobody disembarked. That's because the journey was not over, he said.
The civil rights movement is no different, he said. Nearly 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, the journey has not ended, Sharpton said. [...]
They also pointed to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch commander who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African-American boy who was walking to his father's house. Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, was initially not charged with a crime because, police said, they thought the killing was justified under the state's "stand your ground" law. The case has prompted a national discussion — and tension — over race.
And they pointed to President Obama, who's election inspired talk of a post-racial society. But some of his detractors, Sharpton said, proved America isn't there yet, with calls for his birth certificate.
Sharpton said a new generation developed ways to suppress the vote and deny justice, and it was also up to a new generation of civil rights leaders to stop them. [..] Continued @ NJ.com. Hat tip Mara Zebest.
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...s-birther.html
Birther Report
7/29/2013
Excerpt:
Trayvon Martin, voting rights show dream not yet realized, Sharpton says in Newark
Via Ryan Hutchins @ The Star-Ledger
NEWARK — The Rev. Al Sharpton was aboard a flight halfway from Miami to LaGuardia Airport when the turbulence set in.
"They said, 'Stay in your seat,'" Sharpton recalled Sunday during a stirring address to a packed prayer rally at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark.
The turbulence lasted 23 minutes. The jet eventually leveled off. But nobody disembarked. That's because the journey was not over, he said.
The civil rights movement is no different, he said. Nearly 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, the journey has not ended, Sharpton said. [...]
They also pointed to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch commander who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African-American boy who was walking to his father's house. Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, was initially not charged with a crime because, police said, they thought the killing was justified under the state's "stand your ground" law. The case has prompted a national discussion — and tension — over race.
And they pointed to President Obama, who's election inspired talk of a post-racial society. But some of his detractors, Sharpton said, proved America isn't there yet, with calls for his birth certificate.
Sharpton said a new generation developed ways to suppress the vote and deny justice, and it was also up to a new generation of civil rights leaders to stop them. [..] Continued @ NJ.com. Hat tip Mara Zebest.
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...s-birther.html