I just saw Al Sharpton's first vignette on HBO's Black List, Vol 1 (the one not about his mother), and was blown away by what he had to say about the role of the church in black culture, the civil rights movement, and Hip Hop. I think sometimes Sharpton's reputation gets in the way of his messsage. I searched YouTube for the clip, but couldn't find it, so Chris Rock will have to do:



"You know, Larry Holmes / Gerry Kooney is the perfect example of life. Larry Holmes beats the shit out of this guy for 11 rounds. He knocks him out in the 11th round, they had to stop the fight. The man is bloody; he's been beaten the whole fight. They go to the judges' score cards: Larry Holmes is losing the fight. If he [Holmes] didn't knock him [Kooney] out he would have lost the title. And, that is, essentially, the black experience...in a nut shell."