The Reverend Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist turned MSNBC host, on Thursday picketed Pershing Square Capital billionaire Bill Ackman's New York office, prompting Sen. John Kennedy, R-S.C. , Louisiana) said Mr. Sharpton incorrectly believed that ignoring race was racist.
Mr. Sharpton and the National Action Network, based in East Harlem, New York, went downtown to protest Mr. Ackman, and experts said this week that Mr. Ackman has been involved in discussions with disgraced former Harvard University president Claudine Gay about DEI. In his remarks, he said, “I have declared war on all of us.''
Mr. Ackman on Wednesday issued an invitation to meet Mr. Sharpton in person on X, formerly known as Twitter, and encouraged the activist's inner circle to get the message across.
On “Hannity,” Kennedy said he had read Sharpton's remarks and believed he had the right as an American to express his opinion.
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“This is mine. America is not perfect, but we are good. Like every other civilization, America suffered from the disease of slavery, but we defeated it. , and we're proud of that,'' he said, citing multiple civil rights laws passed by Congress from 1866 to 1964.
“We've made a lot of progress racially in this country, and most Americans, not all, but most Americans don't think much about race, they think about character. I think he's gotten to the point where he understands it.''As I said before, all humans taste like chicken to bears. ”
President Kennedy said race should not be used as a cudgel to “hurt” someone, and Sharpton insisted otherwise.
“I think he believes that ignoring race is racist. And to me, that's unconstitutional and morally wrong. But he has his views. You have the right to accept it.”
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As for gays, Kennedy said she was right to resign and has no ill will toward them.
“My advice to her is that when a door closes, sometimes you have to have a hammer and nails and make sure the 'SOB' closes. Dr. Gay has the job of running a university. Because there wasn't one,” he said. He said.
“The plagiarism allegations against her are serious. I think her suggestion that it might be okay to kill Jews in the right context, whether explicitly or implicitly, was offensive to most Americans. .”
Kennedy was then asked by Sean Hannity about how President Biden has “escaped” his checkered race-related past, with the host responding to the late Ku Klux Klan's famed Cyclops and He joined forces with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd and others to question how President Biden has “got away with” his racially charged past. Opposes public school integration.
Byrd later called joining the KKK his “biggest mistake.”
Mr. Hannity said Mr. Biden once claimed that integration could result in children being educated in a “racial jungle,” and that the president previously said that early in his legislative career, the racist・He also spoke favorably of his cooperation with Senator Eastland (Mississippi) and Herman Talmadge (Georgia). .
“Why don't Democrats… go after the conservatives who held that position and fought for that position? Why did Joe Biden pass?” Hannity asked.
Kennedy responded that Biden has long had the protection of the mainstream media, adding that in his home state of Louisiana, the media has shown respect for the incumbent.
“As I said the other day, the American people are not stupid, but they think Joe Biden is stupid, and there's a lot of evidence to support that,” Kennedy said.
“He no longer has a toe to shoot from – the boundary line is ‘Exhibit A’. ”
