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Rev. Al Sharpton on Tavis discusses Dr. King and the fullfillment of his Legacy

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It can’t be about showing some black examples of success at the top. It must be about where the quality of life for blacks is compared to the quality of life for others in this country and if we look at it from that perspective, it has not changed much as we would like to say it has changed. It’s easy to throw out one or two black names that made it in sports or entertainment or even politics, but what about the median income level of black to white, what about the education level, what about the level of business, what about the level on contracts? When we get into those issues we find that we are not that different from 1968’s Kerner Commission.

I know I keep hittin’ up Tavis lately, but it’s because it seems to be the only venue on TV having the real conversation about race that Obama’s speech called for. And which, by the way, Sharpton has been dogged for in the mainstream media for how long?

Be sure to watch Tavis all this week from Memphis as we remember Dr. King’s legacy on the anniversary of his assassination.

Obama: A More Perfect Union

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I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners – an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.It’s a story that hasn’t made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one.

Read the entire speech.