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[[Democrat]] '''Al Sharpton''' (born 1954) is a highly vcontroversial black politicians based in new York City with a penchant for baiting conservatives and embarrassing liberals. Searching for opportunities to enflame racial tensions, he became a national celebrity in the 1980s. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist', who has led to the deaths of innocent people.
[[Democrat]] '''Al Sharpton''' (born 1954) is a highly controversial black politicians based in new York City with a penchant for baiting conservatives and embarrassing liberals. Searching for opportunities to inflame racial tensions, he became a national celebrity in the 1980s. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist', who has led to the deaths of innocent people.
==Career==
==Career==
Sharpton was licensed as a minister at the age of 9 as a [[Pentecostal]] and again as an adult as a [[Baptist]]. He has no formal religious training. As Sharpon's notoriety has increased he has spread out, running for President as a [[Democrat]] in 2004. Part of the joke of the late night talk show circuit was that Sharpton wanted his very first job to be [[President of the United States]]. Today he is a radio talk show host, guest TV speaker and [[liberal]] activist focused almost exclusively on racial issues.
Sharpton was licensed as a minister at the age of 9 as a [[Pentecostal]] and again as an adult as a [[Baptist]]. He has no formal religious training. As Sharpon's notoriety has increased he has spread out, running for President as a [[Democrat]] in 2004. Part of the joke of the late night talk show circuit was that Sharpton wanted his very first job to be [[President of the United States]]. Today he is a radio talk show host, guest TV speaker and [[liberal]] activist focused almost exclusively on racial issues.
==Gavin Cato riots==
==Gavin Cato riots==
In 1991, a Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child. Anti-semetic riots emerged with Sharpton leading demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." An angry mob surrounds rabbi student Yankel Rosenbaum yelling "Kill the Jews!". Rosenbaum was stabbed to death.
In 1991, a Hasidic [[Jewish]] driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child. Anti-semetic riots emerged with Sharpton leading demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." An angry mob surrounds rabbi student Yankel Rosenbaum yelling "Kill the Jews!". Rosenbaum was stabbed to death.
==Freddy's Fashion Mart==
==Freddy's Fashion Mart==
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In regards to universal healthcare legislation:
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"America Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama" <ref>[http://www.newsmax.com/Manage/Videos/VideoGallery/Sharpton---America--Overwhelmingly-Voted-For-Socia.aspx Sharpton: America 'Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama, NewsMax, March 22, 2010]</ref>
"America Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama" <ref>[http://www.newsmax.com/Manage/Videos/VideoGallery/Sharpton---America--Overwhelmingly-Voted-For-Socia.aspx Sharpton: America 'Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama, NewsMax, March 22, 2010]</ref>