Sharpton: Glenn Beck Trying To "Hijack" Civil Rights Movement
CBS News: Rev. Al Sharpton told CBS News today that Glenn Beck, who is hosting tomorrow's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial, is offering a very different message from the one offered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his "I Have a Dream" speech there 43 years earlier.
Beck's statement that he is reclaiming the civil rights movement, Sharpton told CBS News' Wyatt Andrews, reminds him of earlier claims that King was a communist.
"When Dr. King and others came here in '63 to ask the government to protect the civil rights of people and the economic rights of people, they came to ask government to protect them from local states that were robbing them of economic and civil rights," said Sharpton, who is hosting a rally of his own tomorrow. "...Glenn Beck is coming here to ask government to leave us alone, so he's trying to reverse what King did and there are those of us who are not going to allow that to happen."
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