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I’m supporting waaacists
The Rev. Al Sharpton is backing Barack Obama, but he’s made the strategic decision to keep his support quiet. ...
“I said, ‘I’m gonna do whatever I gotta do to help you. Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us,’” said Sharpton, recounting a conversation with Obama for his followers at his group’s weekly rally.
“‘I won’t either endorse you or not endorse you,’” Sharpton said he told the Illinois senator as the two made their way to a Nov. 29 dinner at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem. “‘But I will tell you I can be freer not endorsing you to help you and everybody else.’”
...“‘No, no, no. I want you to endorse,’” Sharpton recalled Obama saying.
“If I endorse you, and they jump on somebody in Jena, you’re going to want me not to go because the press is going to ask you what about your supporter,” Sharpton said.
“Negroes just [ask], ‘What, what’s Sharpton gonna do,’” he explained. “If you understand strategy, you get somewhere."
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