How Did Al Sharpton Become a Joke? (or) Why Is Al Sharpton a Joke? (Patreon)

Let me know which title you think works best in the comments below! Plus, if there is anything you think I should clarify or add :)

Links/Sources:

Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century (Politics and Society in Modern America Book 68) Part of: Politics and Society in Modern America (52 Books)  | by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg 

Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (Crosscurrents in African American History)

Part of: Crosscurrents in African American History (15 Books)  | by Clarence Taylor 

• https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/public-opinion-on-race-relations-1990-2016/
• https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/26/in-the-nineties-race-didnt-exist/
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/06/clinton-and-the-politics-of-90s-racial-backlash.html
• https://www.al.com/life/2020/11/race-in-america-on-90s-sitcoms-how-they-addressed-it-then.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/30/us/in-a-90-s-quest-for-black-identity-intense-doubts-and-disagreement.html
• https://www.npr.org/2013/01/19/169734710/the-rev-al-sharpton-in-six-true-false-statements
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/opinion/al-sharpton-trump.html (note: author Glenn C. Loury is a Black Conservative
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/al-sharptons-long-bill-of-goods-from-tawana-brawley-to-primetime?ref=scroll(1991 crown heights riot)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190617114135/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/nyregion/sharpton-is-stabbed-at-bensonhurst-protest.html
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1989/08/25/332289.html?pageNumber=1
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190704042652/https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/the-death-of-yusuf-hawkins-20-years-later/
• https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-23-me-1220-story.html (decade of hate)
• https://jewishinsider.com/2019/05/al-sharptons-mea-culpa-i-should-have-done-more-to-heal-rather-than-harm/
• https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/09/weekinreview/region-after-grand-jury-what-happened-tawana-brawley-s-case-attitudes-about-race.html
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