'''Al Sharpton''' (born 1954) is an [[United States|American]] liberal news personality, and highly controversial African American [[Democrat]] politician based in [[New York City]] with a penchant for baiting conservatives and embarrassing liberals. Searching for opportunities to inflame racial tensions, he rose to prominence in a [[hate crime hoax]] in the 1980s by resorting to racial [[demagogue]]ry. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist', who has led to the deaths of innocent people{{citation needed}}. | '''Al Sharpton''' (born 1954) is an [[United States|American]] liberal news personality, and highly controversial African American [[Democrat]] politician based in [[New York City]] with a penchant for baiting conservatives and embarrassing liberals. Searching for opportunities to inflame racial tensions, he rose to prominence in a [[hate crime hoax]] in the 1980s by resorting to racial [[demagogue]]ry. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist', who has led to the deaths of innocent people{{citation needed}}. |