A Slimmed-Down Sharpton Savors an Expanded Profile In little more than 24 hours this weekend, the Rev. Al Sharpton led a march on Staten Island to protest the death of a black man in police custody, went to Washington to appear on “Meet The Press” and flew to Ferguson, Mo., where on Monday he is to eulogize the 18-year-old black man whose fatal shooting by the police set off days of unrest. In between, Mr. Sharpton talked by phone to Valerie Jarrett, a White House adviser and presidential confidante, who told him that representatives of the Obama administration would be at funeral for the 18-year-old, Michael Brown. It was an hour before she announced the news on Twitter, and well before the release of official White House announcement. From an overweight Brooklyn firebrand clad in track suits and draped in medallions, Mr. Sharpton has transformed himself into the White House’s civil rights leader of choice, an incessantly televised pundit, and even a poster child for a strict diet of salad and juice. “In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you’ve got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone’s attention,” Mr. Sharpton, the head of the National Action [...] newsnyork/a-slimmed-down-sharpton-savors-an-expanded-profile/
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 03:45:28 +0000
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