And he was pissed that Jesse Jackson, Jr. not only endorsed Dean instead of him, but endorsed him in SC, where Sharpton hopes to pick up at least 15% of the vote so he can have some delegates. Taking delegates into the convention gives you a bargaining chip or two.
I have been a defender of Sharpton for as long as I've been on DU (when the subject came up, of course). But with this intellectually dishonest bit of race-baiting, I see Sharpton in a new light and have to step back from my support of him in any way.
It wasn't "good enough" that Dean had minorities on his personal staff; it's not "good enough" that he has gobs of diverse -- and important -- endorsements; it's not "good enough" that his campaign staff is probably THE most diverse among all the candidates; it's not "good enough" that Dean alone is trying to raise the issue to the level of national dialogue in a thoughtful way (see his speech, which not even rabid anti-Dean people here at DU could find a bad thing to say:
Restoring the American Community - SC, Dec. 7, 2003
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/002565.html#moreDU thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=844281#846961Black Commentator
http://www.blackcommentator.com/68/68_cover_dean.htmlNope. Let's take a universe of SIX PEOPLE, in a total population of well under a million and 97% of it white, and make a goddamned federal case about it.
Absolutely shameful. Not only that, as this unfair and incomplete story on Dean gets publicized, it will tend to depress African American turnout if Dean is the nominee -- to Bush's advantage. Once again, Democrats are doing Rove's work for him.
Eloriel