Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday known as for organizing like “never before” within the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection, starting with a rally in Washington on Inauguration Day, which can fall on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“While they are on one side of Washington, swearing in Trump, we need to be in Washington saying that we’re going to keep the dream alive,” Sharpton advised a crowd of supporters on the Nationwide Motion Community headquarters in Harlem. “We need to mobilize and organize like we never did before.
“I want them to be able to see that thousands of us are not broken and are not gonna back up…. What Dr. King stood for, we are not going to let anybody turn it around,” Sharpton mentioned, including that the protest shall be nonviolent, not like the 2021 rebel on the U.S. Capitol.
Noting the Republican management of the Senate, and potential management of the Home, he mentioned the nation is getting into a “new age that will challenge and in many ways harm our communities.”
“You can pass whatever bill you want,” he mentioned. “We are not going back. We fought too hard, we suffered too long, we took too many beatings, we spent too many nights in jail. We’ve been to too many funerals.”
Sharpton pointed a finger at white voters, notably white girls, for Trump’s win. He mentioned many citizens had claimed to be voting in opposition to Trump over the difficulty of girls’s rights, however polls present 53% of white girls voting for him in any case.
“The real problem is that many whites said one thing, went and voted another, and they betrayed their own people,” he mentioned. “Not people in terms of race, but people in terms of their commitment…. To vote against a woman standing up for your right to choose is voting against your own interests.”
Racism, he added, performed a transparent function.
“Everyone that voted for Trump is not a racist, but every racist voted for Donald Trump,” he mentioned.
The activist harassed the importance of the following midterm and native elections, saying they might assist “protect us from what they may do in city after city from the White House,” and vowed to maintain combating.
“We can lose a round, but the fight ain’t over,” he pledged.
“We came here designated as property. We went all the way to being president,” he mentioned. “We will not crush the dreams of our children.”
Initially Revealed: November 9, 2024 at 3:04 PM EST
