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Bill Cosby is reportedly stung that even Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are refusing to play the race card for him.

Cosby, who has been accused of sexual assault by nearly 60 women, has reportedly been charged with drugging and assaulting former Temple University athlete Andrea Constand, then 31, in his home in 2004. His legal team plans to play the race card when Cosbys trial is set to start on June 5. Cosby has denied all of the charges and reportedly faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

A source from Cosbys camp told the New York Post over the weekend that, Jesse [Jackson] claims to have forgotten Bills number and Al Sharpton wont even return his phone calls.

Both of them were vocal in their support of Michael Jackson and the charges against Mike involved kids, the source reportedly added. So, is this really that toxic when you compare the two? Any other time theyd at least rally to say something about innocent until otherwise proven.

As the Associated Press noted, when the prosecution struck two black jurors during the jury selection process, Cosbys lawyers attacked what they claimed was the prosecutions systemic exclusion of African-Americans.

Two black jurors were ultimately selected for the 12-person jury and two more were among the six people chosen as alternates.

Cosby reportedly spoke to a black media outlet last month about the racist history of the United States and his daughters reportedly have claimed that the racist mainstream media have been lynching their father.

Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson told the Associated Press that Cosby may be signaling to jurors that you have a mission on this jury, to make sure hes not treated as a black man whos come on aggressively to white women.

She also pointed out that Cosby is not the average black defendant because he is the African-American celebrity who crossed the race divide. He had enormous appeal to white households.

James Braxton Peterson, the director of Africana Studies at Lehigh University, told the Associated Press that it isstriking and ironic that Cosby is playing the race card given that hes demonized poor black people in the past.

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Reverend Al Sharpton thinks that in order to win elections, Democrats must stop trying to get the Archie Bunker vote and instead focus on maximizing the partys minority vote.

During a Friday afternoon MSNBC appearance, Sharpton railed against elected officials and consultants who want Democrats to try and become elephants with donkey skin on, emphasizing that it was pointless to appeal to Archie Bunker voters who support President Donald Trump. Sharpton insisted that these Archie Bunker voters will never cast their ballots for Democrats. He made his remarks a day after Republican Greg Gianforte won his special election for Montanas open House seat by six points even after he allegedly body-slammed a reporter the day before the election.

In a recent interview with BuzzFeed, Sharpton said Hillary Clintons biggest mistake in 2016 was that she did not mobilize in the black community.

You lost Michigan, by what, 15,000, 20,000 votes? You couldve got that if you mobilized two housing projects or three churches, he told the left-wing outlet. Never touched them. So in many ways I think that the whole question of, Oh we gotta reach out to the Appalachian and the blue collar workers and stop the identity politics well, thats one strategy. But what Im saying is that you never worked your own base. You took your base for granted, so its not that you need to go another way, you didnt identify with those in identity politics, thats why you had the lowest turnout you had around blacks in a long time.

Sharpton said though Clinton came to his National Action Network convention, her campaign never engaged us in the campaign.

And I think thats where they did the wrong math in the Clinton campaign. They assumed that well go get all of this because everybody will stay here: young voters, black voters, Latino voters, like Obama, and it didnt happen, he said.

As Democrats plot their electoral strategies for 2018 and 2020, the party is split between those who want to double down on identity politics and those who think Democratsneed to appeal more to working-class white voters.

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Twenty-four years ago, Rev. Al Sharpton said something immensely sick about the police, and when rising star and political commentator Jesse Watters recently tried to confront the notorious race-baiter about his previously made statements, Sharptonof course started making excuses.

First he claimed that he never made the statement. Then he claimed that the Fox News correspondenthad simply misinterpreted him.

But unfortunately for Mr. Sharpton, there was no denying what happened.

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Like Watters himself said to the mans rat-like face, Facts are facts.

The facts are that Sharpton said some very disturbing things 24 years ago while delivering a speech at Kean College.

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I dont believe in marching!' he yelled while recounting the words said by one of his opponents. I believe in offing the pigs! Well they got pigs out here! You aint offed one of them!

What I believe in, I do, he added. Do what you believe in.

Now obviously, Sharpton was not saying that he wanted to off any pigs. He was making the point that his opponents who talk about offing the pigs should back their words up with action.

And Watters felt that Sharpton should apologize for having made this devious recommendation, but Sharpton,course, disagreed:

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Would you like to apologize for that? Watters asked.

You dont have footage saying that, Sharpton first claimed. You had me where I said that a guy was talking about offing pigs, and I said, you aint gonna do nothing, and I mocked him.

Excuses, excuses, excuses. For a guy who claims to keep it real, Sharpton has about as many ties to reality as an insane asylum patient.

Nice try, Sharpton, but in a slightly modified version of your own words, Watters got you!

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Rev. Al Sharpton met with California lawmakers on Tuesday and urged legislators to pick up their effort on police reforms, which civil rights leaders say have slipped this session.

Sharpton and local leaders of his National Action Network were at the Capitol to lobby in favor of AB 284, which would give local police and district attorneys the ability to ask the state attorney generals officeto investigate police shootings.

The group left a meeting with Assembly AppropriationsChairwoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) hopeful that the bill would clear her committees suspense file on Friday. Friday is the deadline for spending bills to advance to the floor.

It has become clear to us that local prosecutors are compromised in their investigations, said Sharpton. They depend on police unions to endorse their elections. And they depend on local police to do the investigations of crimes.

AB 284 has faced opposition from law enforcement groups who say the bill duplicatesexisting oversight.

The attorney general retains the authority to step in on any criminal prosecution when they think theres a problem, said Cory Salzillo of the California State Sheriffs Association at a hearing last month. There are other things the AG should be working on, rather than investigating these cases based on this notion of bias on the part of the district attorney.

Last legislative session, lawmakers pushed proposals to expedite the release of body camera footage, and even open up officers personnel records. Civil rights leaders worry that this session, California lawmakers are losing momentum on policing reforms.

This is one of the issues that California must lead on, saidRev. Shane Harris, president of the National Action Network San Diego. We are supposedly leading the nation in being progressive, yet still we are failing on a very big issue nationally that Democrats have vowed to take on.

In Connecticut, an individual outside of the local prosecutors office can be appointed to investigate an officers use of deadly force. And in Wisconsin, incidents in which an officer is involved with a civilians death must be investigated by anindependent review panel.

Two years ago, Asm. Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), who authored AB 284, carried a more ambitious police reform proposal that would have required a special prosecutor to investigate any deadly officer-involved shooting in the state. That legislation died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

This new proposal, which received bipartisan support in committee, would bring in the Attorney Generals office to look intoa police shooting only upon request of a local agency.

Guy Marzorati is a producer for The California Report andKQED's California Politics and Government Desk. Guy joined KQED in 2013. He grew up in New York and graduated from Santa Clara University. Email: GMarzorati@KQED.org

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More than six months after Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in last years presidential election, people are still explaining why she lost. Political commentator Al Sharpton is the latest to give it a go.

Sharpton explained in a recent podcast with BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith that Clinton lost to Trump because she took her political base for granted and didnt work for the votes of grassroots progressives who awarded Barack Obama two successful presidential contests.

Clinton lost by very narrow margins in several key states Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that paved Trumps path to victory.

But according to Sharpton, if Clinton would have worked to earn the vote and mobilize the black communities and other minority groups in those states, then she would likely be president today not Trump.

Her mistake was she did not mobilize in the black community, Sharpton told Smith.

Sharpton explained that during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last year, he invited Clinton to a gathering of black leaders, but she declined to attend a decision that Sharpton said led to her November loss.

We had one of the biggest gatherings of black ministers and all at the convention in Philadelphia. Right? Theyre all there, Marc Morial is there from the Urban League, the head of the NAACP is there, the civil rights activist said.

How do you not have Mrs. Clinton come by? he asked. These are the people that get your vote out thats your base. You lost Michigan by what, 15, 20,000 votes? You could have got that if you mobilized two housing projects or three churches.

But, Clinton never touched them, Sharpton said.

The MSNBC host went on to explain the two strategies that Clintons campaign could have employed in 2016: either reach out to Appalachia, blue-collar workers and stop identity politics or embrace the new Democratic Party that had twice elected Obama.

You took your base for granted, Sharpton said, adding that Clinton never identified with those in identity politics, which is why she had the lowest turnout among the black community in decades.

She would call me. She came to my convention. But they never engaged us in the campaign, Sharpton explained. How do you decide that those who were part of what helped President Obama. All of the sudden youre gonna flip the script and bring back your friends from the 90s whose Rolodex is outdated.

That, according to Sharpton, was Clintons fatal error, in that her campaign assumed that just because she was a Democrat she would win the black community by the same margin that Obama had in 2008 and 2012.

Indeed, Sharpton more than a year ago predicted that Clinton would need to earn black voters if she wanted to win the White House.

After meeting with then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in February 2016, Sharpton emphasized that he and Clinton would need to earn black voters with their policies and with effort, instead of assuming their catchphrases and political affiliation would do the trick.

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