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Al Sharpton on Monday said he regretted some of his behavior during the Crown Heights riots in August 1991, a situation that pitted black residents against Orthodox Jewish residents. Sharpton said on "Morning Joe" that he "could have done better" and made sure to note that he was not in Crown Heights at the "beginning" of the riot.

"Words can be healing or words can be provocative. And though many people said that we did things that I never was there for at the beginning of Crown Heights when I did come in, I should have made more healing words," Sharpton said Monday in a segment about anti-Semitism with Charlotte Clymer, a person who wrote a Twitter thread on the Holocaust.

Sharpton incited people, led marches, and made anti-Semitic references such as "diamond merchants" at a funeral. Sharpton also expressed hatred at an unrelated event when he dared Jews to come to his house.

"If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house," Sharpton said.

Sharpton on "Morning Joe" today:

And I think that we need to be able to say ourselves where we could have done better. Not just denying the distortions that people say because they accuse you of [actions] that you didn't do, but you could have done better. I think the more we do together and talk about how we could be together, it robs people of the denials that you're talking about with the Holocaust and we're talking about racism. We've got to be better than the people that's denying, not just clear the record for ourselves.

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