SANTEE, SC - Rev. Al Sharpton reminded the congregation at Chapel Hill Baptist Church on Sunday about the struggle for civil rights and the important role for Blacks in selecting the next president of the United States.
"Here you are 40 years later in South Carolina. Nobody bombing your churches, no dogs bitin' you, nobody shooting you in the driveway, just too lazy and ungrateful to use something that folks died to give you the right to," said Sharpton, one of nine Democrats vying for the White House. "Folks got to beg you to vote when others died to give you the right to vote."
The visit was part of Sharpton's campaign for the state's first-in-the-South primary Feb. 3. The vote is expected to be Democrats' first test with a large Black population.
Sharpton told the congregation that President Bush is "bent on phenomenal destruction" in Iraq when the billions of dollars in resources should be used back in America. "Bush is there as a result of us going to sleep," he said.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/6503618.htm
(I certainly hope we're awake in 2004...)
"Here you are 40 years later in South Carolina. Nobody bombing your churches, no dogs bitin' you, nobody shooting you in the driveway, just too lazy and ungrateful to use something that folks died to give you the right to," said Sharpton, one of nine Democrats vying for the White House. "Folks got to beg you to vote when others died to give you the right to vote."
The visit was part of Sharpton's campaign for the state's first-in-the-South primary Feb. 3. The vote is expected to be Democrats' first test with a large Black population.
Sharpton told the congregation that President Bush is "bent on phenomenal destruction" in Iraq when the billions of dollars in resources should be used back in America. "Bush is there as a result of us going to sleep," he said.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/6503618.htm
(I certainly hope we're awake in 2004...)