Al Sharpton Tells Media He Got A Got A Call From Caroline Kennedy

Now she's really running.

Caroline Kennedy, who began seeking Hillary Clinton's Senate seat in earnest today, placed a call this afternoon to Rev. Al Sharpton, and Sharpton promptly put out his statement, vouching for her credentials:

I received a call this afternoon from Caroline Kennedy who expressed to me her interest in the United States Senate seat open in New York City with the choice of Senator Clinton becoming Secretary of State. We discussed briefly our mutual work on education reform and our concern that the nation move in the right direction in education and other areas.

I told her that while I do have discussions from time to time with Governor Paterson on a variety of important issues, we have not had any meaningful discussions about her or any other potential candidate to date. Further, I told Ms. Kennedy that I will respect whatever choice Governor Paterson makes for New York's next Senator.

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Comments

[TAIsabel]

Everytime I see or hear him, I miss Martin Luther King even more. Sorry, this guy is a nutjob and an ambulance chaser. The real deal for civil rights was MLK and now, the example of "no race, just quality" is Obama.

Sharpton and Jackson have fallen short for a very long time.

[grantlingel]

let the man think what he wants, who cares..
http://www.vagabondstory.com

[RJII]

someone hand me a shoe.

[deepfreezevideo]

Hand me two of them.

[roninroshi]

Al is bogus...

[hrhkat29]

do black people respect this man? really, because I know nobody else does.

[Matt7]

There are black people who respect Al Sharpton for reasons too complex to go into on a blog.

There are also those who do not respect him -- but not because of the capsulized name recognition caricature/joke that the American media is fond of perpetuating.

[robXdion]

Blacks respect him to a point. But if you're looking for a bandwagon for permission to release some rage at a convenient black male target, you need to look somewhere else. Blacks may not like what he does image wise, but they do realize he can be correct sometimes, even if that piz zes whites off. Because they know he's still the only thing between them and becoming just another sad civil rights story gone bad that the majority can easily forget.

[psychmaj323]

YEP, totally on point.

[RJII]

I am a 40 year old AA. This as s, along with Jesse Jackson, have been an embarassment to me all my life. They are ambulance, camera chasing opportunist. I's hear Jesse blathering on about who knows what on TV and think, why does the white media run to these fools everytime. As if they are the be all voice for all black people.

Ba-Jesus, I'm so glad for Obama for a few special reasons. I can't be alone.

[deepfreezevideo]

You aren't, and as to why the media relies on them, all I can say is that it's time that a few new people show their faces and take the path toward advocacy in a new direction.
That will render Sharpton and Jackson irrelevant in due time.

Maybe all of this will change with the incoming administration anyway, and who's to say, perhaps there will be a colorblind group of advocates who will work together, for all people of all colors, who are exposed to injustices. THAT would be a giant step.

[blueskybigstar]

There have been times where he has really embarrassed me and times where he has really made me proud. He was talking about what was going on which led to this mess before anybody else. He did not predict all this, but he did point out the things that were wrong that, had they been fixed, would have prevented much hurt. He identified the problem of greed and corruption. Living up to it is another matter. Call him what you want, but you would have to understand that he was an uneducated nobody going nowhere who was inspired by what he saw was wrong in this world and did what he could to become involved and to educate himself and evolve. I have a soft spot in my heart with people who can identify problems and deliver that message in an amazing speech. He is funny, ironic, and spot on. Those who malign him have no love of the human spirit.

[classc 1]

I do. I respect him because he has stood up for those who have been mistreated, abused and otherwise shut out of the system when others have not. He has said what many others have been afraid to say. If it were not for Al Sharpton, many issues that the poor and black community have had, would not have been addressed.

That being said, I think that the Al Sharpton of today is not the Sharpton of years past. IMHO, I think that while he has done great work in the past few years, I feel that he is a bit of an opportunist and an extortionist of sorts. Hey...you have to take the good with the bad.

[jsarets]

"Elected office is not the only area of public service that establishes leadership in this country. We just elected a community organizer as President of the United States."

Yes, Rev. Sharpton, but of course we prefer our elected officials to be, you know, *elected* by the people rather than appointed by a governor locked in a pressure-cooker of interests competing for the coveted seat.

[kadene]

JESUS! Who let him out?

[flipbiscut24]

Still waiting on Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to apologize to the Duke LaCrosse team for their vilification of innocent men.

Anyone think these two upstanding men will deliver?
Honorable men would offer a simple, sincere apology don't you think?

Question answered huh?

[robXdion]

So? Blacks are still waiting for corporations along with Southern and other human rights violating states to apologize for slavery and economic/ medical apartheid. You better get in line or "get over it" like blacks are always told.

[blueskybigstar]

Well done. LOL.

[LynndaMaree]

Caroline, please stay as far away from this man as possible. He needs to go some where and hibernate.

[horsey]

did i hear sharpton say he and the governor have discussions about who will be the state senator?

I think i'd be running from that if i were the governor.

[Semper]

Sharpton is out of his mind.

[Rebecca]

Like his colleague, Jesse Jackson Sr., Al Sharpton is an opportunist. He's just waiting on the next unsuspecting victim to make a misstep or inadvertantly say something, so he can pounce. If the media were truly interested in doing the public a favor, they would have long ago stopped shoving this guy down our throats.

[blueskybigstar]

He has his place. People should have been doing that with this administration more.

[robXdion]

THIS ______ think he's running things and Obama won because of HIM???. . . .FAIL

That being said, Al & Jesse have their places in history, but boosting Obama is not one of them. And while everyone on HP loves to rag on him and Jesse because of the Tawana Brawley situation, some of you conveniently forget the rac.ially 80s and early 90s with issues like Larry Davis, Louima etc, etc, etc, etc. . . .because some of you don't have THAT kind of problem and have no need for a rabble rouser to plead your case in the public sphere. But it's always funny how everyone remember and rehearses the cases of wronged white cops, frat boys, etc., but no one remembers the names involved with numerous cases of brutality, abuse of power and indifferent courts that gives Al & Jesse a righteous platform. Just remember that while you spit on Al's pompadour.

[Ddorsey]

"Finally, I also invited Ms. Kennedy to dine with me at Sylvia's this week in Harlem and reminded her that I took Senator Obama there during his campaign so it's a good luck stop since he did all right."

What an awesome run on sentence!
He uses two transition words in the beginning of his sentence, it's painful to read. And this is an official statement...

[hrhkat29]

Finally, I also invited


He should have said either, I invited Ms Kennedy, or Finally, I invited Ms Kennedy

reminded her that,

It should read, I reminded her that

[GoogleMaster]

Mental Note: Never (repeat) NEVER confide in Reverend Al Sharpton about anything that I don't want leaked to the entire planet.