“F*** Al Sharpton!” Ferguson protesters chanted

[Cooley Hurd]

3. From the same article; Rev defends himself:

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Sharpton added that “they” — whomever “they” are — are misguiding the young activists to focus on him when protesters should be funneling their energies to revamping the system:

“They got you arguing about who going to lead a march—the old or the young—when they cutting up the city budget. You can’t be that stupid! You more worried about who going to lead [National Action Network] than who going to be the governor with a multi-billion dollar budget that you got to pay state tax in. You can’t be that stupid.”

Sharpton went on to say that younger civil rights activists in the Ferguson movement are being “pimped”:

“[Younger activists] were told, ‘Your problem is Al Sharpton and the other guys.’ Anytime you have movements, whether it’s in Ferguson, whether it’s in New York, whether it’s in Denver, wherever it is, when they got you more angry at your parents then they got you at the vote you’re supposed to be out there for, you’re being tricked and you’re trying to turn the community into tricks. And they are pimping you, to do the Willie Lynch [reference to a colonial-era slave owner] in our community.”

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