Remember the quaint old days (think 2010) when MSNBC hosts were suspended for a few days for donating to politicians? This kind of policy has never applied to activist Rev. Al Sharpton, who hosts an MSNBC show and runs his leftist "National Action Network" at the same time. The Hill reports Sharpton is touring Michigan on Thursday to get out the vote for Harris....four days after his MSNBC interview with Harris.
Sharpton will campaign in churches in Pontiac and Flint, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and end at a community college in Detroit. He’ll be joined by Terrence Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, as well as Korey Wise and New York City Council member Yusef Salaam, two members of the Central Park Five. National Urban League president Marc Morial will join the rally in Detroit.
They might claim on Instagram that it's "nonpartisan," but the quotes give it away.
“Voting rights, reproductive health, economic opportunity, educational access, and other hard-won rights for our communities are at their greatest risk in generations, which is why we must paint the polls Black on November 5th,” said Sharpton in a statement.
“Over the last month I have traveled the country, from Philadelphia to Columbus to Atlanta, to remind Black voters of what we lose if we stay home on Election Day,” he added. “Black men, who Donald Trump has tried to wrongly court by thinking his 34 felony convictions appeals to them, have especially heard from Korey and Yusef how he attacked them as teens and what he really thinks of them. In these final two weeks, we will make this case even stronger that Black Americans have a choice to go back to the 1950s or make the most of the 2020s.”
Sharpton spoke on Day 4 of the Democrat convention with Central Park Five figures.
Sharpton’s Michigan trip follows stops in Philadelphia and Ohio with other Black leaders including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio).
