Rev. Al Sharpton: 'My Mother Believed In Me When It Didn't Make Sense'

NewsOne.com:

Rev. Al Sharpton told NewsOne that he regularly called his mother, Ada Sharpton, every Sunday when she was alive and it hurts him that he no longer has those phone conversations with her. During the final years of his mother's life, Rev. Sharpton says his mother did not recognize him.

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Comments

[fiftyninedandre]

04:09 PM on 05/14/2012

To model life for your children,learn to live a life that your children will long experience for their selves.I lost my mother at the age of 10,and today I honor her for the woman she was ,knowing she had only a few months to live., she sent me to a live with her parents,down south, and not my father, as he worked daily and I would have had no proper supervision.I did see him on many holiday weekends and during the summers.As I look at her picture daily, I,Thank GOD for allowing me to be born to such a loving person.
You can't turn back the clock,BUT you can wind it up again.__Bonnie Prudden

[merrybnurse]

01:56 PM on 05/14/2012

Rev. Sharpton is human and a man who stands up for many sitting. Nobody I know agrees on everything. So thank I God, I'm thankful for our differences, and pray I for this man who honored his Mother.

[rav1267]

10:11 PM on 05/14/2012

Hello merrybnurse how are you, haven't seen you aroung lately. Answering your comment: "Rev Al Shapton is a good man who help people in civil rights, equality, and justice.

[merrybnurse]

10:46 PM on 05/15/2012

Hey Rav I been missing u too.. hope your doing great ! Make me laugh again soon ! 

[hoperequired]

05:33 PM on 05/15/2012

He's good at teaching race baiting 101.

[merrybnurse]

10:49 PM on 05/15/2012

...google the 'ole ajax n ride off into he sunset 

[Karmella]

01:10 PM on 05/14/2012

There are trolls in this thread. They had nothing better to do than be hateful, thoughtless and disrespectful.

[baje1944]

08:26 AM on 05/14/2012

We cannot blame Rev. Al for the hateful and disrespectful venom in the country and on this thread. But is there any reason to think we are not headed for a nasty racial confrontation? Just asking! Just asking

[Karmella]

01:14 PM on 05/14/2012

People who are not concerned should be. When...it happens, innocent people will be harmed.

[CHICKSDIGLOCKEDCAPS]

11:07 PM on 05/13/2012

WE ARE ALL VERY HAPPY TO WISH MRS. ZIMMERMAN A HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

[Karmella]

10:22 PM on 05/13/2012

I comforted a person today who was sad because her Mother recently passed. There are a lot of people who are celebrating, and some who are sad. Rev Al, and anyone who may be sad, I hope those thoughts can be replaced with nothing but pleasant memories.

[CHICKSDIGLOCKEDCAPS]

11:09 PM on 05/13/2012

TRU DAT...TRU DAT

[bg3]

09:52 PM on 05/13/2012

Did he know his daddy?

[sillyfrog]

10:22 PM on 05/13/2012

Is this not Mother's Day?

[TYRANT357]

11:34 PM on 05/13/2012

Did you know your daddy?

[bg3]

12:23 PM on 05/14/2012

yea talked to him today

[Ogechi Ofodu]

07:35 PM on 05/13/2012

OKAY I reall don't know what Al Sharpton did to piss anyone of you guys off so much, BUT HE LOST HIS MOTHER. Obviously very slowly thanks to some stupid disease ( maybe Alzheimer's?). And its also very obvious he had a good relationship with her. SO for anyone on he making fun of the loss of a loved one, you should be ashamed of yourselves. IM 14 years old and I know better than that. RIP Ada Sharpton

[TYRANT357]

11:35 PM on 05/13/2012

No, but clearly your mother was a FOOL for giving birth to your inbred behind.

[valeball]

06:15 PM on 05/13/2012

God Bless With God Speed Rev. Al !!

[one1byke]

02:44 PM on 05/13/2012

Bless you, Al. Buck them scungili - eating motherluggers.

[ObamaLovesAll1]

02:43 PM on 05/13/2012

"Rev. Sharpton says his mother did not recognize him."

She was probably ashamed of his "work" like most of America is.

[zaticon1]

02:43 PM on 05/13/2012

Maybe she didn't WANT to recognize you, boyo!

[penhog]

12:52 PM on 05/13/2012

Al still don't make no sense...

[slickvic]

12:47 PM on 05/13/2012

REV AL I THANK YOUR MOTHER SO MUCH FOR HAVING U GOD BLESS TY

[Bill Hamlet the Third]

06:46 PM on 05/13/2012

Al is the only reason why I think abortion really is a good idea.

[TYRANT357]

11:39 PM on 05/13/2012

Bill, you're the reason why INCEST is a CRIME.