Reverend Al Sharpton at 5W Public Relations ‘We’re Close, but We’re Not there Yet,’ of Equality and an End to Racial Divides

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ — The Civil Rights Activist and radio talk show host Reverend Al Sharpton addressed an audience today at 5W Public Relations monthly Speaker Series. With the presidential election over and America’s first black President elected, Sharpton’s topic was the State of the Civil Rights Movement and American Business Opportunity in an Obama Presidency.

While acknowledging that a significant glass ceiling has been broken, there is still a way to go. Sharpton called attention to the jobless numbers and poverty in predominantly black communities are still higher than those of white areas. “We’ve made a lot of progress, but I don’t think we should stop until we made all the way.”

When asked how far he thinks he has moved the Civil Rights movement, he said: “We have made enormous progress…” Yet, he said, “Martin Luther King used to say ‘you gotta measure things from the bottom to the top,’ so we made a lot of top progress, but the bottom has to be on the same progressive curve as the top. You can’t just have Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, but unemployment is double in Harlem and we act like it’s not important. That’s where the challenges still remain.”

Sharpton’s entire presentation can be heard at the 5WPR YouTube page, at http://www.youtube.com/user/5WPRSpeakers

The presentation is broken into three segments:

Part -1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9RFp5QWsjg

Part -2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mmz6wuwsEY

Part -3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta_vUYks6ME

Recent speakers at 5W PR have included Hank Sheinkopf, a political consultant, political operative Roger Stone, Israeli MK Gilad Arden, Israeli MK Yoel Hasson and others.

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