Sharp Dresser with a Sharp Tongue!Reverend Al Sharpton is an African-American preacher and activist from New York City. He became well-known in the 1980s and '90s for his protests against injustice and brutality by the police. Further recognition came in 2004 when he campaigned unsuccessfully for the Democratic party presidential nomination.
Sharpton grew up in a middle class family in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a boxer and a landlord. Until the age of ten, he lived in Queens. He gave his first church sermon at the age of four; by the age of nine he was an ordained minister. Is parents separated in when he was very young because his father wanted to marry his mother's daughter from a previous marriage. At that time, his mother could not earn enough in her job as a maid as got on welfare. The family moved to the projects in Brownsville, New York.
He began organizing protest groups in high school against things like poor cafeteria food and the dress code. Out of college, Sharpton became a tour manager for James Brown and founded the National Youth Movement to fight drugs and raise money for impoverished youth.
Sharpton has ran several political campaigns including the New York United States Senate seat in 1988, 1992 and 1994. He also ran for Mayor of New York City, unsuccessfully. He announced his candidacy for the 2004 presidential election as a member of the Democratic Party on January 5, 2003.
Sharpton has earned a bit of celebrity status and has appeared in a variety of minor films and television shows. Appearances include the movies Cold Feet and Mr. Deeds. Television appearances include Saturday Night Live, Law and Order, and Boston Legal. | |
Your Comments About Rev. Al Sharpton | Comments to date: 5. The most recent comments are below.
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USA USA | Posted at 1:46pm on Friday, October 9th, 2009 | Happy Birthday Reverend Sharpton,
But you nor Jesse Jackson had done a damn thing to really fight for Civil Rights. Yea! you take on a few high profile cases here, and there, I guess is't so you could get more media exposure. You and Jesse seem more interested in stardom, than Civil Rights ! What happen to the Martin Luther Kings of this country? I guess there aren't anymore since his assasination in 1968! Another thing, is they need to shut down all these NAACP's, your rainbow coalition, and many other of these false agencies, who do nothing for civil rights, that just sit back and collect tax payers dollars, while the rest of us suffer!
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Pastor Vanderblit Evans, Sr. Charleston, South Carolina | Posted at 10:52pm on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 | Mr. Sharpton:
I greet you in the name of my lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is the creator of humanity, Amen.
Sir you do not know me, however, I am a servant of the highest God. Sir, al I want to say unto you is this, “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels” Mark 8:38
In addition, my Lord says to all of those that confess to His these words “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith” Romans 1:16&17
Mr. Al Sharpton, you are not who you say that you are. You see sir; you have allowed stardom to be in control of your faith and the love you once had for Ya’hu-shu-a, Amen.
I say because Jehovah God told me to tell that He is very, very disappointed in you sir. You have eaten from the “forbidden tree” just like Adam did in the garden, Amen.
Mr. Sharpton, Jehovah God saw you on a TV movie on September 20TH, 2009 on channel 13; in which you had the opportunity to express how He feels about the subject of homosexuality and you “FAILED”, because you wanted to be politically correct, Amen.
What is wrong with you so call man of God; do you not understand who you are and to whom you belong, you made a vow to the living God, and now you have a little recognition and have now lose you place with Jehovah God, Amen.
Jehovah wants you to remember where He brought you from, when you were nothing. You are a disappointment to him amen; “And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is” Deuteronomy 10:12-14
Brother, I am just a servant of the “Most High God”, just as you suppose to be; however, you have left your first love and became the Prodigal Son of the Almighty God for this world system.
We should always remember what Jesus did for us, we are save from the destruction that will come on this world and the only help for all of humanity is Ya’hu-shu-a, Amen!
My brother were will you be found when this time will arrive and you will have to answer the living God when you stand before Him, Amen!
Jehovah God wants you to know that He loves you; very much and that it was he that places you in the position that you now holds in your life, Amen!
Servant of the living God forever
Pastor Vanderbilt Evans, Sr. D. D.
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WILL ATLANTA GA. | Posted at 1:59am on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | THIS NATION HATE THE TRUTH. JUST BECAUSE THE REVEREND FIGHT THE INJUSTICE, THAT IS WHEN HE BECOME A BIG LOUD MOUTH, THIS NATION WILL CONTINUE TO GO BACKWARD IF PEOPLE CONTINUE TO HATE THE TRUTH.
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KEN THOMAS chesterfield twp,mi | Posted at 5:11pm on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | al sharpton is a loud mouth what about the false rape case anybody else would have been in prison
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v washington brooklyn, ny | Posted at 8:12am on Saturday, July 14th, 2007 | I would like to know where the great activist is now that 3 of his home boys gravely wounded and ambushed 2 of our finest , leaving 1 on life support . Where is his big mouth now for justice for the families
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