Is he ever not offended?
Rev. Al Sharpton accused both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders of attempting to “rewrite history” in recent attempts to walk away from their support of a 1994 crime bill blamed for a rise in the number of black men imprisoned.
“It is almost like you’re trying to play on the intelligence of those of us that were against the bill,” the cable news pundit and civil rights leader said Sunday on MSNBC.
“To just say that the statement ‘predator’ is bad, and it was, but both of them supported the bill,” Sharpton said, referencing controversy over Clinton’s use of the term ‘super-predator’ in 1996. “And I feel the bill was wrong and proved to be wrong.”
“I would have a lot more respect if people just said: ‘Look it was a mistake. We were wrong,'” Sharpton said. “How do you take the same side and attack the other one … when you both did the same thing,” he said. “You supported the bill.”
“This would be far more responsible than trying to rewrite history,” he added.
The Violent Crime Control Act gained attention this week when protesters confronted former President Bill Clinton about his wife’s comment in 1994 that repeat juvenile offenders are “super predators.”[…]
Sharpton urged the two candidates to move past statements that he said “offended me.”