Near the end of 2007, Obama confidante
Valerie Jarrett met with Al Sharpton in New York City and began to
cement a relationship that would eventually make the inflammatory
activist the president’s “go-to man” on race, according to multiple
sources.
The backdrop to the incipient Obama-Sharpton alliance was the then-senator’s 2008 presidential campaign, which still hadn’t locked away the black vote, and the political cross-currents created by two other controversial reverends, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright.
That tentative relationship has now grown into a full-blown partnership that has vastly increased the once-shunned Sharpton’s influence and prestige and elevated him into a key White House ally at a time of heightened tension over policing and race.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396399/how-obama-sharpton-alliance-began-jillian-kay-melchior
The backdrop to the incipient Obama-Sharpton alliance was the then-senator’s 2008 presidential campaign, which still hadn’t locked away the black vote, and the political cross-currents created by two other controversial reverends, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright.
That tentative relationship has now grown into a full-blown partnership that has vastly increased the once-shunned Sharpton’s influence and prestige and elevated him into a key White House ally at a time of heightened tension over policing and race.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396399/how-obama-sharpton-alliance-began-jillian-kay-melchior
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