Sharpton on Colom’s Win in Miss. Amid the Civil Rights Fight: The Grandchildren of Them, Black and White, United to Elect a Black U.S. Senator

RUSH EXCERPT:
SHARPTON: "It was also striking to me that we talk a lot about what happened in Mississippi during the fight for civil rights. Goodman, chaney and schwerner, two Jews and a black killed for for exactly this voting rights protest. We talk about viola Lewis. And then now you see the grandchildren of them, black and white, united to elect a black U.S. senator. When I was going to Mississippi during the late summer early fall, when the noel nolan wells case and I did the funeral, and I started hearing from young people then about him, which is why we started putting him on our show a couple of times when people didn’t think it was a contest. But there was something about him energizing young people of all races in Mississippi that they didn’t see coming, because they don’t look at what’s really in front of their eyes in terms of their own constituents. And I think and I texted him a couple of times this week, back and forth. He tapped into something that he really believed in. And you could feel you can’t fake people’s belief. People can feel if you’re just talking or if you believe that. And the other thing I think that he did that was very smart. He always reached out to Republicans, and he honored those that were of the generation that made him possible. He went to medgar evers house."