Editing Al Sharpton (section)

===Racial and homophobic comments===
On February 13, 1994, Sharpton told a student audience at [[Kean University]] in [[New Jersey]]: "White folks was in the caves while we was building empires," he said. "We built pyramids before [[Donald Trump]] even knew what architecture was. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before [[Socrates]] and them Greek homos ever got around to it." Sharpton defended his comments by saying that the term "homo" was not homophobic; however, he added that he no longer uses the term.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2003/06/21/sharpton_7/|title=The skeletons and suits in Sharpton's closet|last=Tapper|first=Jake|date=June 21, 2003|website=Salon}}</ref> At the same lecture, he said, "Do some cracker come and tell you, 'Well my mother and father blood go back to the [[Mayflower]],' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of, that means their forefathers was crooks."<ref name="Moynihan">{{citation|author=Moynihan, Daniel Patrick|title=Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSXLSDHXACcC&pg=PA23|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1996|page=23|isbn=0674574400|author-link=Daniel Patrick Moynihan}}</ref>

On one occasion in 1992, he derided moderate black politicians close to the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] as "cocktail sip Negroes" or "yellow niggers".<ref>{{cite news|last1=MITCHELL|first1=ALISON|title=Sharpton's Headache: To Get Out the Vote|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/09/nyregion/sharpton-s-headache-to-get-out-the-vote.html|access-date=September 3, 2015|agency=The New York Times|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 9, 1992}}</ref>