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Has Al Sharpton Changed His Spots?

I think there are two items worth noting about yesterday?s meeting of ?civil rights leaders? with President Obama, a meeting whose purpose was ?to address the jobless rate in the hardest-hit areas of the nation, particularly in black communities, where the unemployment rate is well above the national average.?

Item 1: Three ?civil rights leaders? met with the president: Marc Morial of the National Urban League, the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, and Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP. Perhaps a whole host of other ?civil rights leaders? were invited and were snowed out, but it nevertheless says quite a lot (and none of it good) about the president and his party that Al Sharpton is regarded as a leader worthy of respect and inclusion in the highest councils of government.

Item 2: Coming out of the meeting, Sharpton said

We?re not looking for a race-based program. We?re looking to make sure everyone is involved.

Is this the same Al Sharpton who favors race-based school assignments, race-based college admissions preferences, race-based hiring and promotion, race-based ... well, you name it? If so, then it?s either a good thing he?s not a leopard, or it?s no longer true that leopards can?t change their spots.

Full post as published by Discriminations on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).