Jennifer Hudson after receiving her Oscar for supporting actress in the movie, Dreamgirl said, "Look what God can do." Not quite in the same league, but with bible in his hand, Look what Rev. Al Sharpton can do. Sharpton is reported to have gone to the grave site of segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, South Carolina ancestors. These ancestors held some of Sharpton's kin in bondage Coleman Sharpton was owned by Julia Coleman. Now we understand Rev. Sharpton love of the long flowing hair!
Sharpton appears stunned in learning that family members were enslaved. Hello this is America. Essie Washington, secret African-American daughter felt Al Sharpton was overreacting to the news that he might be kin to the late Senator Thurmond.
And if you go to Black Professor you will find the same type of awe expressed by legal scholars upon meeting the descendants of Dred Scott. It makes me wonder what do folks study about in history in school. Do they even talk to family members.
Or have they brought into the slavery happen long ago, that subject don't have anything to do with now. My daughter has a t-shirt that says I love black people. I don't know where that come from, but I saw it at an early age. Al Sharpton has made it fashionable to love black people who once were enslaved, because they just might be family.
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