Sharpton: ‘all a bunch of condescending bigots’
By: Jeff Dufour and Kiki Ryan
Washington Examiner
04/23/09 12:05 AM EDT
Don’t think for a second the election of a Democratic African American president would silence the Rev. Al Sharpton. He was his usual self Wednesday, ripping into the new administration.
“They appear like smiling liberals, but they are all a bunch of condescending bigots,” Sharpton said while speaking on an education panel regarding the release of McKinsey & Co.'s report, “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools.”
Good thing U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan left the event immediately after giving his remarks preceding the panel.
He compared those in charge to then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace and the “door blockers” of the 1960s, saying, “It may be a different day, but the people in the doorway now are those we thought were our friends.”
He added anyone who does not try to fix the education problem “are co-conspirators” to Wallace’s attempt to stop desegregation.
The rant was not surprising, but his admittance of a secret ally was unexpected.
“Newt Gingrich and I agree on the idea of there being no sacred cows in this,” he said. “[We] teased about doing a poster together that says ‘no sacred cows.’”
Now that we’d like to see.
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