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Sharpton, 62, reportedly usedpart of his speech Monday toattack President Donald Trumps criticism of American sports stars for kneeling in protest during the recitation of the national anthem as the most despicable thing I have seen him do. Sharpton also said, forDonald Trumpto act like this is a flag issue is to divert attention from how he is dealing with the issues that they are kneeling about.

During a rally for defeated U.S. Senate candidate Luther Strange who lost to Roy Moore for Attorney General Jeff Sessions vacated Senate seat earlier this month, Trump said, Wouldnt you love to see one of theseNFLowners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! Hes fired. Hes fired!

Sharpton told the crowd at his award ceremony, This is the same president, a few weeks ago, that when we saw neo-Nazis marching inCharlottesville, he said that there were some fine people on both sides but he calls the mother of pro athletes bitches. It is something that I think is beyond the pale.

In addition to this, the Democrat who worked with the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a youth said race relations in the United Staes are in as much peril now as we were when I was a kid joining Dr King, echoing the majority of his fellow political party members opposed to the commander-in-chief.

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Nobel Laureate and mathematician John Nash, economist Paul Krugman and author JK Rowling are past James Joyce recipients.

Sharpton also spoke with student leaders at the Trinity Historical Society:

In an opinion piece, the Irish Centrals Niall ODowd wrote, The UCD Society that invited him should be ashamed of themselves for awarding Sharpton. ODowd also questioned why the presenters of the award did not mention his role in the debunked Tawana Brawley case,in whicha 16-year-old black teenager from New York lied about getting raped by six white men and having KKK written across her chest and nigger, nigger written across her stomach.

Brawley had even claimed one of her assailants was a white police officer.

At the time, Sharpton who was a spokesman for the legal team and the Brawley family said, New York State is now the capital of racial violence.

Embattled comedian Bill Cosby also came out in support of Brawley.

Veteran state investigator John Ryan helped crack the case, and then-New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams testified, Those allegations are untrue. The people who made those allegations lied. Their outrageous, irresponsible acts have increased the atmosphere of tension between the races.

It came out later that Ms. Brawleys boyfriend reportedly said that she had faked the attack to avoid a beating from her mother for spending days with the boyfriend.

In a letter to the editor of theIrish Times, an Irish national wrote, There are many deserving African-American civil-rights leaders that UCD could have chosen for this honour, instead of Sharpton.

While fielding questions from students, the subject of President Trumps potential reelection was raised. Asked if this was a possibility, Sharpton reportedly replied, Yes, if we dont organize.

Sharpton appeared to be referring to the lefts so-called Resistance movementagainst Trump.

Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her onFacebookandTwitter

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The Rev. Al Sharpton was honored in Ireland on Monday for his long odyssey in the civil rights world with an award named for Ulysses author James Joyce.

The civil rights activist, 62, traveled to University College Dublin to receive the tribute from the institutions Literary & Historical Society.

Brooklyn-born Sharpton joined a prestigious list of other honorees that includes Nobel Prize-winning anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Irish politician John Hume and poet Seamus Heaney.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is another prominent American civil rights activist who received the award, picking up his honor in 2004.

Sharpton slams Trump's 'cowardice' in Kaepernick comment

Sharpton used part of his speech to students Monday to slam President Trump after his criticism of U.S. athletes taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

He said Trumps calling NFL players such as Colin Kaepernick the first to take a knee in protest a son of a b---h is the most despicable thing I have seen him do, the Irish Times reported.

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Rev. Al Sharpton is the subject of a day-long Columbia University School of Journalism symposium examining the impact he has had on civil rights and urbanizing the doctrines of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the last 50 years. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 11 from 9-5 p.m. at 2950 Broadway.

Civil rights leaders, scholars and media analysts will be among those examining Rev. Sharptons leadership, including civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, MSNBC television host Joy-Ann Reid, race theory scholar Kimberle Crenshaw, television correspondent Angela Rye, and others, who will judge the historic impact Rev. Sharpton has had, how he has further developed the movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how he has set a tone on fighting racial violence for all communities of color.

Sharpton began his work in activism at the age of thirteen in 1967, under the tutelage of Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Dr. William Augustus Jones. Sharpton became the youth director of Operation Breadbasket, an organization using the power of Black ministers and the organizing strength of churches to create economic opportunities in Black communities. In 1991, Sharpton founded his non-profit civil rights organization, The National Action Network.

October 3, Sharpton's 63rd birthday, marks 50 years since his involvement in the civil rights movement.

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As I watched neo-Nazis march in Charlottesville, VA a few weeks ago with torches in hand yelling Jews will not replace us while celebrating a general of the Confederate Army who had fought to overthrow the U.S. government in order to preserve the institution of slavery, I reflected on the fact that those who have raised the banner of anti-Semitism and racism are usually one in the same, or at least bedfellows. We are currently witnessing a rise in both forms of hate in the U.S.and in many other places around the world, and just like the past, it is going to take a unified coalition to defeat it all.

On Monday, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Rabbi Steven Fox, joined Martin Luther King III and I as we led a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C. The One Thousand Ministers March for Justice brought together religious leaders from multiple faiths and people from all backgrounds to collectively fight for the soul of our nation. On the 54th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we gathered for four main principles: voting rights, health care, criminal justice reform and economic justice.All are currently under renewed threat in the United States.

Whether it is attempts to suppress the vote, take away health care reform, or an overall mechanism where there is unequal access to opportunities and a criminal justice system that preys on the poor and communities of color, this is where the battle for equality is today. We as faith leaders joined in unison because we know that an attack on one group or an injustice against one group is an injustice against us all. In addition to the overt forms of racism and bigotry we push back against, we must also tackle the systemic forms of racism and inequality that still permeate our society. It is why ministers, rabbis and imams locked arms and marched with thousands of others from the King Memorial to the steps of the Department of Justice.

Historically, the African American community and the Jewish community have fought for each other and against racism, anti-Semitism and hatred in all its forms. During World War II, black soldiers fought against the Nazis even though they were still segregated and discriminated against back home. In 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi; two of them, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were Jewish Americans. We have stood by one another and fought against bigotry during some of the toughest periods in history. Today, we continue to do just that.

Now, there are some who point to moments of tension between our communities, or things which we may have disagreed on some of which was distorted on both sides. We can debate what occurred or didnt occur a quarter of a century ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn or anywhere else, but we cannot do it at the expense of the clear and present danger of now. Our common struggle is more important today and at this time.

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Those of us really committed must get past our arguments on what did and did not happen in order to deal with the broader mandate of standing up for humanity. There is far too much that we all face today which will require unified fronts like our march in the nations capital on Monday. The One Thousand Ministers March echoed the demonstrations of the past when religious leaders peacefully assembled together to shed light on injustice.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched alongside Dr. King as they fought for civil rights for every man, woman and child. In fact, we honored Rabbi Heschel posthumously at National Action Networks (my organization) convention and presented an award to his daughter. During the 1960s and throughout many other time periods, we achieved progress only when we came together for equality and justice.

Dr. King himself once stated: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

We are at a critical juncture here in the United States and around the world. What we do next and how we proceed will shape the future for generations to come. If we are to defeat vile hate groups who now feel emboldened, or defeat laws that are being implemented to reinforce systemic racism and discrimination, we must stand united because we know that we stand on the right side of history.

Rev. Al Sharpton is president and founder of National Action Network

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Rev. Al Sharpton and his selfie-taking self stopped by The Breakfast Club Wednesday morning (Aug. 23) equipped with an iPhone full of memory and perfect lighting to take as many pics as his tireless activist heart desires. The Power 105.1 talking heads kicked off the 30 minute conversation asking Sharpton how he felt about Jay Zs light jab on Family Feud from his latest album 4:44,and taking a cue from Hov himself, the reverend dusted the remark off his shoulder.

He shouldnt be jealous. For me at 62-years-old to show I can work out and be in shape, you know, I mean cmon. Jay-Zs almost 50? He better get with it. I aint mad at him, Sharpton said. Jay-Zs had me in a few songs every time he does thats cool. Ill slip in a sermon or two and we keep it even.

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Having endured much criticism throughout his career, Charlamagne tha God asked Sharpton if it hurts him to know many still question exactly hows helping the fight for equality, to which Sharpton basically responded he isnt knew to this.

Ive never seen a leader, whether it was in our tradition, whether it was Dr. King, Andy Young, Jesse Jackson who I grew up under or in other traditions Minister Farrakhan, Ive never seen, Malcolm, Ive never seen a leader they didnt think did enough until they died. You never get credit. Sharpton responded

The Power 105.1 hosts covered a lot of ground during the sit down, but it was only when Angela Yee asked about the recent removal of Confederate monuments viewers learned Sharpton has a personal stake in one of them. About six or seven years ago, The New York Daily News did an investigative piece on South Carolina Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond and while tracing the lineage learned the Thurmond, a proponent for segregation, owned Sharptons great-grandfather.

I never knew it until they came out with, my great-grandfather was named Coleman Sharpton who was a slave at the plantation of Alexander Sharpton who married Anna Thurmond who was with Strom Thurmond. So this is personal to me, so Ive got a problem with any tax dollars Im spending paying for a memorial for any slave holder.

The conversation then turned to the events of Charlottesville in which Sharpton admitted he wasnt shocked KKK members, neo-nazis and white supremacist marched to preserve their confederate history, but that theyd show no remorse in the killing of 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

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I was shocked that there were so vicious that they killed a young white woman and not even care, and what was so shocking though to me was the president of the United States would stand up there and say there were fine people on both sides.

It was a rich conversation indeed. Check out the full interview below.

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