Politics Nation: Al Sharpton Discusses the “Santa-Clausification” of MLK

Al Sharpton discusses the conservative movement’s response to the civil rights effort in MLK’s time with historian Rick Perlstein. Perlstein talks about how the Watts riot in Los Angeles sparked conservative backlash. Sharpton brings up the fact that King had an approval rating of less than 50% from whites and blacks uring his lifetime, as compared to the 94% he enjoys postmortem.

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