More recently, Sharpton held rallies in Florida to fight for justice in the Trayvon Martin case. Martin, an unarmed African American teen, was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a member of a neighborhood watch group, in February Zimmerman has claimed self-defense, but others feel that Martin was a victim of racial profiling. Initially the local police did not file any charges, but Zimmerman was eventually tried for second degree murder, though he was found not guilty. Some had worried that Sharpton's presence in Florida would turn already tense race relations into riots.
But Sharpton called for a peaceful approach. We are in the business of justice," he told the press. In June , Sharpton spoke at the memorial for George Floyd, who died on May 25, , after a police officer kept his knee on Floyd's neck during arrest, despite Floyd saying that he couldn't breathe. Having known Donald Trump for the past three decades as a native New Yorker, Sharpton has become very critical of the billionaire who became president in Rather than attempt to grow and learn, Trump has leaned into his role as divider-in-chief.
This is exactly the same racially divisive, unapologetic blowhard I knew in New York. Sharpton has two daughters, Dominique and Ashley, from his marriage to Kathy Jordan, with the couple having separated. As of reports surfacing in , he has been seeing stylist Aisha McShaw. Once weighing in at lbs. How did he lose all of that weight? Sharpton went through an over four-year weight loss journey, losing lbs. Claiming he shed the pounds surgery-free, he attributes his success to a strict discipline of eating less, eating healthy and exercising regularly.
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He formed the National Action Network in to fight for progressive, people-based social policies by providing extensive voter education and registration campaigns, economic support for small community businesses and by confronting corporate racism. That same year, Sharpton was stabbed in a Bensonhurst school yard. This represented a turning point for him. Eventually, he met and reconciled with his attacker. Sharpton has never hesitated to act in support of African Americans, from individuals seeking public offices to Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant brutalized by Brooklyn police in Now he is also seeking to build a national multi-cultural, multi-racial movement addressing a range of issues.
Sharpton also orchestrated a massive protest when police shot unarmed Amadou Diallo 42 times in In , Sharpton protested the U. Navy's bombing of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. By the time he turned 16, Reverend Sharpton had founded the National Youth Movement, Inc, which organized young people around the country to push for increased voter registration, cultural awareness and job training programs. Senate in and , and he nearly forced a runoff in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in Martin Luther King Jr.
I think of the National Civil Rights Museum and the Lorraine Motel," Sharpton said, recounting a conversation he said he had with a man on the plane to Memphis Saturday. Sharpton said that he was a teenager when King was killed, and he didn't quite understand why his mother was so upset.
Made to sit in the back of the bus but paid the same fare to understand who Dr.
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