Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, looking to shore up his presidential aspirations and garner support for his assumed presidential run in 2020, met with someone whose history has been laced with racism and anti-Semitism: Rev. Al Sharpton.
The two men met on Friday, as a spokesperson for Sharpton confirmed, asserting, “They spoke and agreed to meet within the next couple of weeks and they had a great conversation,” according to Buzzfeed News.
But for O’Rourke to seek Sharpton’s approval is a different matter; as Walter Williams pointed out in 2015, Sharpton has made comments like these over the years: “White folks was in the caves while we (blacks) was building empires. … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. … We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it … So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket. That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks … If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”- READ MORE