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Born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 3, 1954, Reverend Alfred "Al" Sharpton has been preaching since age four. He was licensed and ordained at age nine. In 1971, he founded the National Youth Movement and for seventeen years he led the organization, registering young people to vote and giving them job opportunities. His direct-action and civil disobedience campaigns have brought attention to injustice in many areas.

Sharpton has pursued other interests while continuing to preach: in his teens, he established a close bond with James Brown and developed a father-son relationship, eventually recording the record God Smiled on Me with him. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he worked as a youth organizer with boxing promoter Don King, while learning more about African American politics and entertainment.

However, Sharpton never strayed far from activism. He formed the National Action Network in 1991 to fight for progressive, people-based social policies by providing extensive voter education and registration campaigns, economic support for small community businesses and by confronting corporate racism. That same year, Sharpton was stabbed in a Bensonhurst school yard. This represented a turning point for him. Eventually, he met and reconciled with his attacker.

Sharpton has never hesitated to act in support of African Americans, from individuals seeking public offices to Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant brutalized by Brooklyn police in 1997. Now he is also seeking to build a national multi-cultural, multi-racial movement addressing a range of issues. To that end, in 1999 Sharpton, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch and Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree formed "Second Chance", a program to serve non-violent felony offenders after their release from prison. Sharpton also orchestrated a massive protest when police shot unarmed Amadou Diallo 42 times in 1999. In 2001, Sharpton protested the U.S. Navy's bombing of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. Attempting to fight injustice wherever he finds it, Sharpton is following in the footsteps of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr.

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As Breitbart News has documented, Sharpton has a long record of using racist and antisemitic rhetoric. Many Jews blamed him for exacerbating mob violence against the Jewish community in New York in the 1990s.

More recently, Sharpton led protests against the 2012 death of black teenager Travyon Martin, which he and fellow activists cast as racially motivated, marking the beginning of a decline in race relations that has lasted several years.

On Thursday, Sharpton appeared before a congressional hearing at the House Judiciary Committee on policing practices. During his turn to question the witnesses, Gaetz referred to a resolution,H.Con.Res. 270, which then-Rep. Scarborough introduced in 2000.

The resolution was called, Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton. Though it was never voted on, it contains a list of offensive statements and actions by Sharpton, as follows:

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as bloodsucking [J]ews, and Jew bastards;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as white interlopers and diamond merchants;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton was found guilty of defamation by a jury in a New York court arising from the false accusation that former Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, who is white, raped and assaulted a fifteen year-old black girl;

Whereas, to this day, the Reverend Al Sharpton has refused to accept responsibility and expresses no regret for defaming Mr. Pagones;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharptons vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and in particular, a Jewish landlord, arising from a simple landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant, incited widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent people;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharptons fierce demagoguery incited violence, riots, and murder in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, following the accidental death of a black pedestrian child hit by the motorcade of Orthodox Rabbi Menachem Schneerson;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest in the Crown Heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a sign that read, The White Man is the Devil;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has insulted members of the Jewish faith by challenging Jews to violence and stating to Jews to pin down their yarmulkes; and

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has practiced the politics of racial division and made inflammatory remarks against whites by characterizing the death of Amadou Diallo as a racially motivated police assassination

As a video released by Gaetzs office shows, Sharpton had to admit many of the statements, or claim not to have recalled them or to be responsible for them. He noted, in his defense, that he and Scarborough work together well.

Chairman Nadler struggled to maintain control as Gaetz fought to ask his questions within the time limit. Rep. Jim Jordan (D-OH) yielded his own time back to Gaetz to continue his line of questioning to Sharpton, who struggled to answer some of the allegations, including that Sharpton had used a gay slur inreferring to Greek homes. Gaetz also asked Sharpton about whether and why his charity allegedly paid him $500,000 for rights to his life story.

In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) would not be seen with Sharpton and made it known that he did not want Sharptons endorsement. But Obama later turned to Sharpton to defend the administration in the black community.

At the same time, Sharpton began working for MSNBC as a prime time anchor, after the liberal network faced criticism for having a lily-white lineup. He continues to host his own show on the left-wing cable news network.

In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary, Sharpton has emerged as a kingmaker, as virtually every one of the candidates has courted his favor speaking at his conferences, meeting him for lunches in Harlem, and so on.

Gaetz represents the same district, FL-01, that Scarborough once represented in the western Florida panhandle.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author ofHow Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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There are figures that leftists revere, and Al Sharpton is one of those figures. The man styling himself as reverend has been around for years thanks to making racism against black people and social justice a central issue. As such, he is often protected.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida doesnt care about all that, and while at aHouse Judiciary Committee hearing about policing practices where Sharpton was considered an expert, Gaetz confronted Sharpton with statements he had made in the past about other races in an attempt to make it clear that Sharpton is not the best guy to take advice from.

Gaetz began by having Sharpton answer for a resolution submitted by then Rep. Joe Scarborough (now Sharptons fellow MSNBC host) back in 2000, which was made forCondemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton.

Mr. Scarboroughs resolution began by saying, Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as bloodsucking [J]ews, and Jew bastards,' Gaetz said. My question to you is, does Mr. Scarboroughs assertion that you said these things, is that true or did you not say those things?

Sharpton denied ever having said these things, calling them patently untrue. From here, Gaetz and Sharpton devolved into trying to talk over each other as Gaetz attempted to push more questions about things Sharpton had said, and Sharpton defending himself while attempting to run out the clock.

Eventually,Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and immediately took Sharptons side, banging his gavel and saying that Sharpton should get all the time he needs to defend himself since aspersions were cast on him.

No, Im sorry, Mr. Chairman, aspersions werent cast, replied Gaetz, noting that hes only asking if Scarboroughs allegations were true.

This only caused Nadler to bang his gavel harder, and let Sharpton continue.

Regardless, the back and forth continued with Sharpton either denying or making excuses for, racist things he said or did in the past. He was ultimately successful in running out the clock on Gaetz, but Rep. Jim Jordan yielded his time to Gaetz when it was his turn.

As Gaetz continued his inquiries, Democrats became upset. Both Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee and Nadler called Gaetzs questioning obnoxious, which Gaetz objected to. Nadler continued by saying that unfortunately the rules of congress allow Gaetz to ask these questions.

Gaetz made his point, however.

Reverend Sharpton has come before the House Judiciary Committee as a purported expert on policing. Yet his bigoted statements undermine the bipartisan work we should be doing to ensure that all citizens are able to come together and have safe communities.

While Sharpton had a solid excuse for some of the things that he had said or done, the majority of his past comments were indeed racist and bigoted. While Democrats continue to sell themselves as the party of anti-racism, they continue to hold up figures like Sharpton who have no business representing anti-racist peoples.

Whats more, the fact that Democrats were so adamant to defend Sharpton only makes them look all the worse.

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His record has become relevant for two reasons. First, Democratic presidential candidates have been courting his support with no criticism of his past.

Second, President Donald Trump tweeted Monday morning that Al Sharpton is a con man who Hates Whites & Cops.

He did so ahead of a press conference planned Monday in Baltimore where Sharpton and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele a frequent Trump critic were to object to Trumps recent criticisms of the city. (which were nearly universally shared until Trump made them).

Sharptons record matches Trumps claims.

As Breitbart News noted earlier this year (original links):

Sharpton has a long history of controversial racial rhetoric. In the notorious Tawana Brawley case in 1987, Sharpton backed a teenagers false accusations of rape, stirring racial divisions in New York and across the country. When he was successfully sued for defamation [by a prosecutor whom Brawley falsely accused of being among her attackers], he refused to pay the judgement, and supporters had to step in on his behalf. Sharpton still refuses to apologize for his role.

In 1991, Sharpton helped incite riots against religious Jews in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn after a black child was killed in a car accident. An enraged mob murdered a visiting Jewish religious student, Yankel Rosenbaum. Rosenbaums brother toldBreitbart News in 2012: I have never seen a person be able to avoid being held accountable in substantive terms for his various and significant serious otherwise well publicized misdeeds over such a prolonged period of time, as Sharpton. This is truly an indictment on all those who have done so in the past and continue to do so. (Sharpton acknowledged some of his mistakes in Crown Heights, while protesting his innocence, in a 2011 op-ed in theNew York Daily News.)

In another riot in 1995, Sharpton led protests against Freddys Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned store in Harlem, after it was forced to raise the rent on a sub-tenant, a black-owned record store. (Sharpton called the owner a white interloper.) One of the protesters later shot four employees and set the store on fire, bringing the death total to seven.

As of 2008, Sharptons NAN had massive debts and owed $2 million in taxes, which it claimed to be paying off. In 2014, theNew York Times reported that Sharpton had more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses, which he denied. And in 2009, Sharpton and NAN agreed to pay $285,000 in civil penalties after the Federal Election Commission found that NAN had made improper contributions to his 2004 presidential campaign, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party nomination.

In 2012, Sharpton and NAN played a key role in inflaming national division and outrage over the death of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed during a scuffle with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Sharpton promotedfalse reports that Zimmerman used what Sharpton called racial language in speaking with police. He used his prime-time program on MSNBC to promote the story, including the claim that Zimmerman whose mother is Peruvian was white, implying racial bias in the killing.

Despite that record, Sharpton has been rehabilitated by the left and the mainstream media. He hosted Saturday NightLive in 2003.He spoke to the Democratic National Convention in 2004 (breaking with his prepared text to aim a racially-tinged attack at President George W. Bush). He was hired as a host by MSNBC in 2011.

But the most important event in Sharptons journey from the fringe to the mainstream was President Barack Obamas decision to embrace him in 2011, even as other black leaders on the left stepped up their criticism of the administration.

As the Daily Beast reported: Obama stayed so far away from Sharpton during the 2008 campaign that Sharpton, with Obamas blessing, never even endorsed him. Yet not only did Obama just become the first president ever to appear at the annual conference of Sharptons National Action Network, ten top Obama aides, including six cabinet members, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, spoke at various sessions of the four-day event.

Today, Democratic hopefuls are beating a path to Sharptons door, eager to speak at his NAN podium with the slogan, No Justice, No Peace emblazoned behind them.

Sharpton has also played a leading role in the Black Lives Matter movement, which has demonized police.

The left-leaning Daily Beast blamed Sharpton, in part, for inflaming the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 into local riots and a national conflagration:

The narrative thus set, Al Sharpton and the media descended upon Ferguson alongside outside agitators who marched with such slogans as No Justice, No Peace or Hands Up, Dont Shoot. More unrest would follow when the grand jury elected not to indict the officer for the tragic shooting. Riots and looting would ensuewith breathless coverage in the media and little from the President of the United States and the Attorney General to quell the violence.

In 2016, Sharpton was among the defendants sued by a black police officer from Dallas Sergeant Demetrick Pennie, President of the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation for allegedly inciting hatred against police. (Five officers were previously killed in Dallas by a sniper during a Black Lives Matter protest.)

There is arguably no person in America more responsible for the decline in race relations in recent years. A Gallup poll of attitudes on race relations shows that they were improving until roughly 2012/3 when Sharpton burst onto the scene with the Trayvon Martin controversy.

Trumps claim is therefore grounded in a solid foundation of facts facts that the media, following Obamas lead, have swept aside for years.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author ofHow Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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Al Sharpton was born on October 3, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. He is an actor, known for Mr. Deeds (2002), Malcolm X (1992) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009). He has been married to Kathy Jordan since October 31, 1980. They have two children.

Son of Rev. Alfred Charles Sharpton, Sr. (born in Florida, circa 1926, living in Orlando, Florida, in 2004) and wife Ada (born 1925).

Of Native American descent specifically Cherokee.

New York City, NY, USA: Living and working [January 2006]

"The issue of government is not to determine who may sleep together in the bedroom, it's to help those that might not be eating in the kitchen." - At the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

"We are the royal family of the planet. We are the original man. We gazed into the stars and wrote astrology. We had a conversation and that became philosophy. God is on our side." (speaking about black people at rally in Crown Heights in 1991)

I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.

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