Ken HutchersonIf you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I’m a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.
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People can be defined by their skin color or by their physical appearance. There are people who claim to be a certain race or a certain appearance simply because that is how they were raised and that is what makes them who they are. However, it is possible to be a person with those qualities but not those physical traits. For example, Al Sharpton is a black man but he is also a Christian.
He has been trained to be a man of God and as such is his beliefs. In other words, he has undergirded his life by his Christianity.
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