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I have enjoyed a long and positive relationship with David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, and I don’t ever remember saying “no” to them and I intend to remain their partner in civil rights as I clean the dirt from under the carpet in the oval office when I am elected President. David Duke is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What the Ku Klux Klan has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up. It is inconceivable that any candidate could expect to be elected...

arack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's recent attendance of Al Sharpton's National Action Network raises some disturbing questions, especially given allegations about Clinton's past record of making anti-Semitic statements. Jews Divided on Hillary Slur reports an allegation that, in 1974, she called Bill Clinton's campaign manager Paul Fray, whom she apparently blamed for losing a Congressional race for her husband, a "f**king Jew bastard." Meanwhile, stories about Obama's attendance at a madrasa, and his connection with a Black separatist minister, take on added seriousness in light of his recent visit to Al Sharpton's racist and anti-Semitic hate group. Under standards set,...

Said he will go down as greatest civil right leader of the "late 20th century."

Twenty years ago, a black, 15- year-old girl named Tawana Brawley was found in a garbage bag near her Wappingers Falls, N.Y., home. She claimed she'd been abducted, raped and sodomized by six white men over a period of four days, some of them local police officers. The details of the case were sufficiently lurid to guarantee the case became a national sensation. Her body was smeared with feces. Racist slurs had been written on her torso. And her clothing was torn and burned. The case seemed like something out of the KKK era. Reverend Al Sharpton, then merely an...

NEW YORK - Civil rights activist Al Sharpton said Monday he is seriously considering a run for president. "I don't hear any reason not to," Sharpton, 52, said in an interview during an urban affairs conference sponsored by another civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "If we're talking about the urban agenda, can you tell me anybody else in the field who's representing that right now?" Sharpton asked. "We clearly have a reason to run, and whether we do it or not we'll see over the next couple of months." Sharpton mounted a long-shot bid for the White House...

Abduction Called Hoax Published: Nov 21, 2006 BARTOW - A woman was arrested Monday after she told authorities she lied about being kidnapped, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. The sheriff's office said that from the beginning, Gretchen Morales' story was sketchy. The 31-year-old Davenport woman told detectives she was abducted from her garage Thursday morning and could not remember anything else. A babysitter reported her missing. The sheriff's office spent 16 hours searching for Morales. She was found that night in St. Petersburg after she called 911. During an interview Monday afternoon, the sheriff's office said she told detectives...

According to several on-line sources, today is the Reverend Al Sharpton's birthday. He was born on October 3, 1954 in Brooklyn, NY. In fine Freeper tradition, let's turn this post into a guestbook of sorts and extend our birthday wishes to Al. Be nice now everyone...yeah right.

Where is Reverend Al Sharpton's apology? "Black leader" and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton recently capped off a busy week by demanding apologies from Mexican President Vicente Fox and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca. Fox, in defending Mexican illegals working in America, said such workers take jobs that "even blacks" refuse to do. Enter Sharpton. He demanded an apology, arguing Fox's words "confirm the stereotype that blacks are the lowest peons in the workforce of this country." Although Fox promptly "clarified" his remarks and told Sharpton that he "regretted any hurt feelings," Sharpton remains unappeased. "If I step on...

NEW YORK (AP)--New York City has agreed to pay $200,000 in damages to Al Sharpton after he was stabbed nearly 13 years ago at a protest where he said police failed to protect him. The settlement, which also covers the Democratic presidential candidate's $7,447.76 hospital bill, came as jury selection was to begin Monday in his decade-old civil case against the New York Police Department. Sharpton claimed police were ``careless, negligent and reckless'' during the 1991 incident, said his lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein. Sharpton, a civil rights activist, was protesting what he considered lenient sentencing of white defendants in the 1989...

Question of the day: At this point, who would you like to be the Democratic presidential candidate next year? Howard Dean Dick Gephardt John Kerry Joe Lieberman Carol Moseley-Braun Al Sharpton View Results

Top Stories Photos - APDemocratic presidential hopeful Rev. Al Sharpton responds to President Bush's (news - web sites) State of the Union address during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)